Building Students’ Moral Through Uswatun Hasanah Principles: A Systematic Literature Review

School or madrasah needs to instill good attitudes in the form of speech and behavior in daily activities. The prophet taught Muslims a good example (uswatun hasanah) for students when they gathered and interacted with different communities. Uswatun hasanah, or excellent conduct, is an Islamic religious value born from training and habitual action by providing a good example. Religious and moral education is essential as the root of forming a believer-pious person. This study seeks to understand uswatun hasanah through systematic literature by exploring knowledge patterns in the national database. The results indicate that good moral guidance (uswah) is not based on theoretical teaching but necessitates concrete examples through the role and responsibility of educators in the context of learning and learning processes. As such, educators should be an example (uswatun hasanah) (a good example) for students through excellent conduct in day-to-day activities.

Islamic Education During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Dynamic of Online Learning on Character Education

This study explores the Islamic Education learning process dynamics during the Covid-19 Pandemic in the character education activities. The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the learning model from face-to-face to online learning. Developing effective and efficient online learning procedures and forms is a significant challenge faced by teachers. This research study incorporates a qualitative approach where data is collected through observation, interviews, and documentation. The object of the research were three government schools, namely SMPN 3 Lembang, SMKN 10 Bandung, and SMAN 1 Sungailiat Bangka Belitung. The research question is directed to explore the dynamics and problems that arise and the role of teachers and schools in mitigating these problems. The study results showed that most online learning uses popular applications such as Zoom, Google Meet, Google Classroom, Whatsapp Group, and Quizziz. To make online learning effective, among the efforts made by the teacher were explaining the technical activities to be carried out. Constraints that often occurred are limited internet quotas, network constraints, to inadequate computer devices. Amid the challenging situation, learning to shape students' character was still undertaken by internalizing religious values manifested in various forms of simple online religious activities.

Teaching Religious Character Education in Pre-School in the Era of Pandemic

This study describes the learning process of religious-based character education at TK ABA Berbah, Sleman, during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study incorporates a qualitative research method with a descriptive case study approach. Findings suggest that the school implemented blended learning activities in which lessons are conducted online and offline. Habituation became a key activity during the offline session. The involvement of parents contributed to the success of learning during the pandemic, set an example, and monitor their kids at home. Blended learning provided an increase in the communication's intensity and the relationship between parents, children, and teachers so that teaching and learning religious-based character education can be conducted appropriately amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Criticizing Higher Education Policy in Indonesia: Spiritual Elimination and Dehumanisation

The Ministry of Education and Culture's policy on “Merdeka Belajar” (Freedom of Learning) seeks to enable students to master different valuable disciplines to access the work field (link and match). This article investigates Freedom of Learning policy direction and unpacks freedom of learning from the viewpoint of prophetic education theory. This research employs a literature review process. The information was gathered by studying the Ministry of Education and Culture legislation and laws, literature, and compiled references of the policy. The findings suggested that the Freedom of Learning policy's trajectory accommodates data in the material domains (cognitive, affective, and psychomotor), yet it lacked spirituality. The principle of prophetic education is to move humans to be decent (righteous), to achieve the great humans (insān kāmil), and to improve (muṣliḥ) the world into an ideal environment or society (khaira ummah) capable of bridging the gap the means. Professional education continues to carry out a constant, creative mechanism to get citizens closer to God (transcendence) through digitally increasing human ideals and avoiding harmful stuff (liberation). Competence in the policy of independent learning is maintained by prophetic education.

Potentials of Multicultural Education in Communal Conflict Areas

This study focuses on understanding communal conflicts in Indonesia, which are triggered by stereotyping. Indonesians have undergone communal conflicts, especially in the late 1990s. The conflicts were mainly religious and ethnic, suggesting serious tensions in stereotyping between religious and ethnic groups. In this case, the paper seeks to underline the importance of multicultural education in the school context. Education is considered having a strategic role in building positive circumstances among people. Multicultural education is expected to minimize the possibility of building negative stereotyping of one person against another, which could cause conflict. This qualitative study incorporates a literature review of multicultural education and communal conflicts in the Indonesian context.

Early Childhood Care in Sambas Muslim Family: Cultural and Religious Influences

This article reports an in-depth study on early childhood care in Sambas Malay Muslim family. This research incorporated a qualitative method with a descriptive approach through observations and interviews with parents and Sambas local figures. The findings indicate the influence of local culture and religious values on Sambas Muslim parenting style. More specifically, this study showed that parenting practices of Muslim Sambas Malay parents are carried out through the tradition of pantang larang and kemponan. Pantang larang and kemponan become parts of collective memory so that they become social educative traditions in early childhood care in the Muslim Sambas Malay family.

Human Resource Procurement in Pesantren? Insight from Pesantren Sirojuth Tholibin

Human resource procurement is one of the essential stages of organizational decision-making. The scope of procurement consists of planning, recruitment, selection, placement, and orientation of new personnel. Human resources studied in this research are situated in Pesantren comprising of the committee or board; teachers of kitab kuning (classical Arabic Islamic textbook) either with sorogan or bandongan methods; teachers of reciting and memorizing Al-Qur’an; persons in charge of media such as website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, magazines, and newsletters of Sirojuth Tholibin both. Sirojuth Tholibin commonly used a bottom-up approach in human resources planning. As a part of the planning process, The institution usually combines unstructured interview and observation methods in job analysis. In recruitment and selection, Sirojuth Tholibin pays more attention to behavioral competencies over technical competencies. Recruitment of committee and teachers usually carried out through the employee referral method. Those recruited and selected are recommendations from previous administrators who understand the background of potential candidates. The placement of new human resources is made based on their respective competencies. Orientation is the responsibility of each department, and the duration is according to the speed of each new individual in capturing new knowledge related to their jobs. The weakness of human resources procurement in Sirojuth Tholibin has no formal written job description and job specification. There is also a lack of management information systems of human resource procurement.

Islamic Education Marketing Discourse From Maslahah Perspective

The marketing paradigm has undergone a change from the rational level to the emotional level, and finally, the shift in the spiritual level. Such discourse results in different marketing strategies, especially the marketing applied by both profit and non-profit organizations. Educational institutions, including non-profit organizations, must have a marketing strategy following the spiritual level shift. One spiritual aspect in the marketing of Islamic education is the level of maslahah (utility) applied to all marketing activities. The purpose of this study is to examine educational marketing from a maslahah perspective. This writing is library research with a qualitative descriptive approach—data sources in the form of references related to the study topic. Data analysis was carried out qualitatively, including data reduction, data presentation, and concluding. The results showed that the maslahah of Islamic education customers was the main objective of all Islamic education marketing activities.

Qur’anic-Based Educational Leadership: An Inquiry Into Surah Al-Fatihah

The study of leadership has become an important part amid a multidimensional crisis and a decline in morality in various leadership settings; the significance of this leadership influences the organizational system's sustainability. Thus, this research study aims to build a portrait of Islamic education leadership as an ideal leadership model through the internalization of al-Fatihah's values. This study aims to unpack Islamic school leadership values and principles from al Fatihah verses as an ideal leadership model by internalizing al-Fatihah's values. The findings suggest a) Surah al Fatihah contains Islamic school leadership value derived from rabbaniyah value (monotheism) and Insaniyah value (relationship with others). b) changing Islamic school leadership paradigm from indoctrination to active participation. This study demonstrates that all Islamic education organizations should act by inspiring without indoctrination, awakening without hurting, and arousing without forcing.

Online Learning amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of the State Islamic University of Mataram

This research aims to investigate the challenges and opportunities of the use of information technology in an online learning at the State Islamic University of Mataram (UIN Mataram) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research incorporates a survey to identify the use of information technology among students. The sample used in this research was the first semester students of the State Islamic University of Mataram (UIN Mataram). The research results indicate that 27.3% of students did not have laptops, 61.8% of students experienced difficulties accessing the telecommunication signal in their home town, and 10.9% experienced electricity problems during online learning. The use of Google Classroom and WhatsApp group media is prevalent at the university during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.