Most female students of Hikmah Teladan Elementary School at Cimahi, a small town near Bandung – West Java, wear Islamic head scarves, jilbab, in their school days. The boys wear traditional Muslim dresses, baju koko, with its long pants, long-sleeve shirts, and rimless caps. They practice shalat at prayer times and recite Quran. However the religious environment don not eliminate free and fun atmosphere in the school.
That afternoon some students learned to recite Quran for their religious education class. The boys sat on the floor under wooden shelters beside a grass field. Big trees shadowed the spot from extreme heat of the sun. Fresh air breezed. Both girls and boys sit together. Sometimes they laughed or even played jokes with their friends. They were not afraid to make mistakes and to be punished.
“Children have to learn and practice religion in a relax environment. Don’t threat children with punishment and or make students afraid of making sin. Naturally children are in age of playing,” says MH Aripin, curriculum developer and teaching supervisor of Hikmah Teladan Elementary School.
Religious education in schools, Aripin said, should not be based doctrines and dogmas but should be based on rationality and freedom of thinking. In Islam, said Aripin, ratio is considered as the virtue of human being.The main task of schools is to encourage its students to fulfill its curiosity and to think freely.
“If religious education in schools are merely based on dogmas, then it will against its own mission,” says Aripin.
Ehem...
Tak disangka Islam dilayan sebegitu rupa di Indonesia...
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