Policy Analysis of Islamic Education in the Era of Reform

Abstract

A variety of policy in the field of what are, in essence, was born as an answer to the various problems that arise in the community. In its realization, sometimes the policy successfully solve the problem, sometimes achieves success, and sometimes create new problems. When the new Order regime of Suharto fell in 1998, the education in Indonesia, still uses the Education ACT 1989, and curriculum 1994. The fall of the Suharto regime rolling the idea of reform, which is one of the agenda is the changes and updates in the field of education, as became the theme of a critical observer of education and is expected by many parties. Islamic religious education should be given from an early age, starting from the age of childhood, teens, and even adults. In Islam known term lifelong education (long-life education). That means as long as he lived would not be separated from education, because each step of the human essence, learning, either directly or indirectly. Although there are many critics who waged by various groups to education, or rather to the practice of education, but almost all parties agreed that the fate of a community or a nation in the future depends heavily on the contribution of education. For example, it is very sure that the education that can contribute to the culture of tomorrow. The same opinion also we can read in the explanation of the General Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 20 Year 2003 on National education system (LAW No. 20/2003), which among other things states: “Humans need education in life. Education is an effort so that people can develop their potential through a process of learning or how to’