Internalization of Students' Religious Character Through Pesantren Value-Based Full Day School Program (K.H Imam Zarkasyi) at Al-Hikmah Elementary School Ponorogo

Abstract

Along with the development of digitalization and modernization, eroding the character of low-income children in Indonesia. Religious character is an urgent problem to overcome because it is the spearhead of character education. The low religious character is motivated by the environment and religious character-building programs of the madrasah that are lacking, this is shown through the attitude of students in their daily lives in the Madrasah. Indifferent attitude towards worship, prefers Western culture, luxury, vying in worldly matters, and intolerant of peers. The focus of this study is to identify strategies for internalizing the religious character of students through the Islamic boarding school value-based full-day school program (K.H Imam Zarkasyi) at Al-Hikmah Elementary School Ponorogo and knowing the constraints and obstacles of the program. The research method used is a qualitative research type of case study. The findings show that the value of pesantren internalized in students is the five souls of modern cottages consisting of; The spirit of sincerity, the spirit of simplicity, the spirit of independence, the spirit of ukhuwah Islamiyah, and the spirit of freedom. The strategy used is through activities designed in the full-day school program. The constraints and obstacles of this program come from internal and external factors. The author concludes that the value of pesantren is a solution to the problem of religious character and the full-day school program is the right means of internalizing the values of pesantren.