Children’s literature is often used as a medium for teaching values, for example
religious values, in order to shape children’s character based on the understanding or
ideology of certain groups. Through religious-based children’s literature, the figure of
a religious ideal child was created and called a pious child. This example is applied by
Salafi Islamic groups in Indonesia. The group that bases its teachings from the Salaf
creates Islamic children’s book genre called ”Sunna children’s book”. The method
used in this article is library-based qualitative research. Studies of pious character
in European minority Muslim children’s literature have been widely carried out by
Green-Oldendorf (2011), Shavit (2016) and Janson (2017), while studies of pious children
in Indonesian contexts have only been done little, including this article. Textual study on
the construction of pious children character is carried out according to the concept of
ideal child in children’s literature by Purbani (2009), children book illustration and visual
by Nodelman (2004), and pious Muslim child and childhood by research approach
(Hendra-Priadi, 2019 and Scourfield et. al., 2013). The result of the research shows
that pious children are represented through the main character who is very diligent
in worshiping, behaving well, and obedient to parents. In addition, the construction of
pious children in Serial Salman dan Hamzah is based on Salafi ideology concept of
tarbiyah (education) that textually refers to the Quran and Hadith.
The Search for One’s Own Ideology as the Primary Task of Social Power
