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Curriculum Development and Accreditation Standards in the Traditional 

Islamic Schools in Indonesia 

  

Muhammad Nasir * 

 

* Institut Agama Islam Negeri 
Samarinda (State Islamic Institute of 
Samarinda), Samarinda, Indonesia. 
E-mail: 
muhammadnasir@iain-samarinda.ac.id 
 
Article Info 
Received:   January 4, 2020 
Revised:      April 23, 2020 
Accepted:   June 21, 2020  

 

 

 

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Nasir, M. (2021). Curriculum 
Development and Accreditation 
Standards in the Traditional Islamic 
Schools in Indonesia. Journal of 
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ABSTRACT 

This research aims at describing qualitatively the reality of 

curriculum, instruction, and academic tradition development in 

madrasahs (traditional Islamic schools) based on the 

school/madrasah accreditation standards in Indonesia. The findings 

from this research show that madrasahs in Indonesia generally have 

met the standards of curriculum development and the model of 

Education Unit Level Curriculum in terms of mechanism, document 

completeness and involvement of external parties in its 

development. The aspects of planning, learning document 

availability, instructional book, learning load and study group 

generally have met the standards of national accreditation. The 

weaknesses lie in the aspects of development, contents, strategy, 

study resources, media, model, approach and learning method that 

support the strengthening of students' Higher Order Thinking Skills 

(HOTS). The creation of academic atmosphere is weak when it 

comes to 1) conditioning students to become true life-long 

learners, 2) enhancing students' skill to think creatively, 

productively, and critically, 3) applying scientific approaches such 

as study tours, practices in the laboratory, seminars, 

demonstrations, and exhibitions and 4) strengthening students' 

skill to act individually, collaboratively, and communicatively. 

KEYWORDS 

Curriculum development; madrasah; traditional Islamic schools; 

accreditation standards; Indonesia.  

 

 

 

 

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INTRODUCTION 

Educational system in Indonesia comprises two main subsystems —the general school 

education, which is under the administration of the Ministry of Education and Culture (MOEC); 

and the madrasah education under the Ministry of Religious Affairs (MORA)— which maintains 

an oversight over both public and private madrasahs across the country. The Law on National 

Education NO. 20 year 2003 formally integrates all madrasahs into the national education 

system, and they are required to follow the national curriculum and education standards set by 

the government. Approximately 18% of all Indonesian schools (primary and secondary) are 

madrasahs, with the majority (90%) being private madrasahs and only 10% being run by the 

state. In 2013, 87% of about 50 million students in the primary and junior secondary education 

system were enrolled in MOEC schools, while the remaining 13% were enrolled in madrasahs 

(Asian Development Bank, 2015). 

In the face of the Industrial Revolution 4.0, madrasah as one of the Islamic educational 

institutions surely faces a serious challenge. Supriatna and Ratnaningsih states that the 

challenges of madrasah in the globalized era include the rapid development of technology, 

particularly the information and communication technology, the existence of dominant culture 

coming from advanced countries that challenge Muslim identities and Islamic values, the 

integration of the world's community, and the changing social expectation towards educational 

institutions (Supriatna and Ratnaningsih, 2017). In addition to the external demands, madrasah 

also faces internal challenges as a basic and secondary educational institution with Islamic spirit. 

In defending the characteristics of madrasah, madrasah graduates are not only demanded to 

compete in the millennial era and the industrial revolution 4.0 by mastering a number of 

competencies in the general sciences but the graduates of madrasah should also maintain their 

identity by strengthening their Islamic philosophical, theosophical, and theological subjects. This 

study covers the fields of mantiq, nahwu, sharaf, al-muhadharah, al-insya (public speaking), 

tarikh tasyri' usul fiqh, fiqh (principles of jurisprudence), hadits, tafsir, balaghah, ma'ani, badi', 

bayan (the knowledge of interpretation or instrumental knowledge) (Bustamam-Ahmad, 2015). 

In the face of the two aforementioned challenges, madrasah has to present itself as an 

Islamic educational institution that is capable of competing globally and provides quality 

assurance for the process and results of the study for their graduates. Quality in education can 

be defined as a setting vision, mission, goal and target of the learning quality of madrasah that 

is beneficial and viable to achieve for students; b) developing the objectives of learning that are 

valuable and assertive; c) involving the process of meeting the academic standards to achieve 

the expectation of the society and the demands of government, business, and industry, 

students' aspirations and needs, and the requirements of professional institutions. In Japan, for 

example, to globally competitive students, the government uses Programme for International 

Student Assessment (PISA) that aims to assess main competencies. The Japanese government 

has also prioritized the development of human resources that are needed to compete in the 



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international community and PISA has a huge impact on the direction of Japanese education 

(Nakayasu, 2016). 

In order to assure the quality of process and graduates of all schools/madrasahs in 

Indonesia, the Indonesian government applied the National Standards of Education for 

schools/madrasahs through the Government Regulation No. 32 Year 2013 (Peraturan 

Pemerintah RI Nomor 32, 2013). This government regulation sets up eight national standards of 

education that serve as a guideline for all educational units in Indonesia in managing education. 

The standards here are for the competencies of school graduates, standards of contents, 

standards of process, standards of educators and academic staff, standards for equipments and 

infrastructures, standards of funding, and standards of assessment. In observing the reality of 

curriculum development, the process of learning, and reality of academic tradition in 

madrasahs, the standards of graduate competencies, standards of contents, and standards of 

process are considered to include three aspects meant. 

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 

According to the Regulation of the Minister of Education and Culture No. 02, 03, and 04 Year 

2017 on the National Accreditation Boards for Schools/Madrasahs, accreditation is an activity 

to assess the fitness of basic and secondary educational institutions, pre-school educational 

institutions, and non-formal education based on the criteria set forth to provide quality 

assurance in education (Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Nomor 002, 2017; 

Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Nomor 003, 2017; Peraturan Menteri 

Pendidikan dan Kebudayan Nomor 004, 2017). Accreditation in education is the process of an 

association or institution in evaluating the quality of an educational institution formally to 

evaluate whether an institution meets or exceeds certain requirements and criteria that have 

been set from the criteria or quality standards of education. This institution sets the standards 

designed to reflect the quality of healthy educational programs. This institution develops the 

procedures to decide whether an educational institution and program meet the standard. In 

addition to setting the criteria, the association or accreditation institution holds the 

responsibility to visit and evaluate an institution, and provides accreditation to programs and 

institutions that meet their criteria (Budiharso & Tarman, 2020; Ibrahim, 2014). 

In evaluating the quality of an educational unit, accreditation is one of the external forms 

of evaluation conducted by the government through the National Accreditation Board for 

Schools/Madrasahs (BAN S/M). The internal evaluation can also be done with certain 

educational units through other modes of evaluation. One of the modes of evaluation that can 

be applied is the qualitative evaluation mode called the Context, Input Product and Process 

(CIPP) model. This model was developed by Stuffleben and friends in a book called Educational 

Evaluation and Decision Making. Context evaluation includes teacher, learners, management, 

work facilities, work environment, regulation, role of school committee, society, and factors that 



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affect the curriculum. Input evaluation includes levels of advantage of various things present in 

the context of curriculum implementation. Process evaluation includes the applicability of 

curriculum implementation that will show the strengths and weaknesses, and product 

evaluation that includes results of learning by comparing with standards set with 

implementation reality (Hasan, 2008; Nasir. 2017). 

The task of the National Accreditation Board (BAN S/M) in Indonesia includes setting the 

policies and developing the accreditation system in line with the principle of continuous quality 

improvement nationally, formulating the criteria and instruments of accreditation to be 

proposed to the Minister, setting policies for implementing the accreditation, introducing 

policies, criteria, and instruments  of accreditation, planning the target of accreditation 

nationally based on the Ministry's priority, evaluating the process of accreditation and follow up 

of the accreditation, monitoring and evaluating the National Accreditation Board (BAN) at the 

province level, providing recommendation based on the results of the accreditation, issuing the 

certificates of the results of accreditation to educational units, reporting the results of the 

accreditation to the minister, building collaboration with relevant shareholders at the national 

or international level, and run the administration of the National Accreditation Board (BAN). All 

of these tasks are based on the Regulation of the Minister of Education and Culture No. 

002/H/AK/2017 on the Criteria and Instruments of Accreditation for General and Islamic 

Elementary Schools, No. 003/H/AK/2017 on the Criteria and Instruments of Accreditation for 

General/Islamic Middle School, and No. 004/H/AK/2017 on the Criteria and Instruments of 

Accreditation for General and Islamic High Schools. The 2017 instruments of accreditation is a 

unit that consists of instruments, technical instructions, supporting data, and scoring system. 

Accreditation is aimed to provide information on the fitness of the educational unit 

whether or not they have met the requirements set by the National Standards for Education 

(SNP) through the recognition of the accreditation rank in supporting the quality assurance for 

accredited educational units and general public. This is important for a number of reasons, 

namely, a) as a reference to improve the quality of schools and school development plan; b) as 

a motivator for the educational unit in order to e able to compete comprehensively in improving 

the quality of education at the regional, national, or even international levels, c) as beneficial 

feedbacks in improving school performance in implementing the vision and mission, quality 

target; d) as information for schools as a learning community to gain supports from the 

government, community and private sectors in terms of professionalism, morality, human 

resources, and finance. In short, the function of accreditation includes recognition of the 

worthiness and accountability for public as the end users of the service, whether their demands 

have been met, and the improvement and development as a basis for all parties to improve and 

develop the quality of their education (Haryati; 2014). 

The ideal demand of curriculum development for madrasahs is reflected in the content 

standards of accreditation. Ideally, the curriculum of madrasahs has to be developed with the 

Curriculum of Educational Unit Level (KTSP) (Muhaimin et al., 2008; Nasir, 2015). The model 



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criteria in general include: a) the formation of a madrasah curriculum developer team in charge 

of developing madrasah curriculum, involving various parties such as teachers of all subjects, 

counselors, madrasahs committee or educational administrators; b) the implementation of 

development procedures such as analysis of regulations, students' needs, educational unit, 

environment, availability of educational resources; c) the execution of curriculum development 

workshops that involve various related parties; d) the contents of curriculum document include 

context analysis, fundamentals for the development of curriculum, principles of development, 

vision, mission, and objectives of educational units, curricular contents or the structure of 

curriculum, students' study load, teachers' work load, academic calendar, local contents and 

assessment, syllabus with its various components, and the Lesson Plan (RPP) with the 

component standards inside (Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Nomor 002, 2017; 

Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Nomor 003, 2017; Peraturan Menteri 

Pendidikan dan Kebudayan Nomor 004, 2017). 

The ideal demand of learning process in madrasahs is reflected in the standards of learning 

process and curriculum. Ideally, teachers have to: a) develop teaching media with their various 

components; b) apply the principles of proper learning; c) manage classes with a sense of 

humanity; d) choose a proper learning approach such as thematic approach and/or integrated 

thematic and/or scientific, student-centered approach and teacher-centered approach (Arends, 

2007); c) use a learning model that is in line with the characteristics of subjects such as inquiry 

learning (Khalaf and Zin, 2018; Eggen et al., 1979), project-based learning, cooperative learning, 

problem-based learning, collaborative learning, contextual teaching and learning, and so on; f) 

use learning methods that are in line with the characteristics of the materials and condition of 

students such as lecture, demonstration, discussion, independent study, simulation, 

brainstorming, case study, seminar, tutorial, deductive, and inductive, and so on (Peraturan 

Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Nomor 22, 2016). 

The creation of academic tradition in madrasahs is reflected in the standard of graduates' 

competencies that demands madrasahs to provide students with facilities for various activities 

or programs so that students: a) have a sense of spirituality; b) have social attitude; c) have 

characters that reflect the attitude of a true life-long learner; d) have attitude that reflects 

mental and physical health; e) have factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive 

knowledge in accordance with their levels with regards to sciences, technology, society, 

surrounding community and nature, nation, and Country; f) gain learning experience such as 

local arts and culture; and g) gain learning experience using information about the environment 

logically, critically, and creatively through the use of learning sources (Peraturan Menteri 

Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Nomor 002, 2017; Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan 

Nomor 003, 2017; Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayan Nomor 004, 2017). The 

program of creating academic atmosphere that can be developed by teachers or madrasahs can 

be activities embedded into subjects or work programs that are separate from the subjects. 

 



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Chart 1: Theoretical Framework 

 
Based on the above chart, it can be explained that curriculum development, learning 

process, and the creation of academic tradition in madrasahs are the main foundations in 

shaping the quality of graduates without ignoring other factors. When related to the theories of 

curriculum, all three are included in the anatomy of curriculum or components of curriculum, 

namely, objective, contents, and learning materials, learning and assessment method or 

strategies. (Sukmadinata, 2008b; Miller and Seller, 1985; Undang-Undang RI Nomor 20, 2003; 

Print, 1993; Hamalik, 2008; Taba, 1971). 

METHODOLOGY 

This research uses a qualitative approach that aims to reveal comprehensively and in details the 

accreditation of madrasahs in East Kalimantan in 2017 involving thirty-three madrasahs, that 

include twelve Islamic Elementary School (Madrasah Ibtidaiyah/MI), fifteen Islamic Middle 

School (Madrasah Tsanawiyah/MTs), and six Islamic High Schools (Madrasah Aliah/MA). 

The focus of this research is on curriculum development, learning process, and academic 

tradition in madrasahs in East Kalimantan based on the results of accreditation for madrasahs 

in 2017. The data obtained through documentation and interviews were analyzed qualitatively 

to find patterns, forms, ideas, and explanations and understanding of particular data elements. 

The resulting patterns and ideas were then interpreted to produce a conclusion.  

The analysis on data from research results was conducted in three stages, namely: a) 

organizing data; b) summarizing data; and c) interpreting data (McMillan, 2012; Creswell, 2011; 

Sugiono, 2008; Sukmadinata, 2008a) and was concluded with drawing conclusion. In other 

words, the research process covers data collection, data categorization, data interpretation, and 

conclusion drawing (Moleong , 2011). 

 

 



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FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 

The curriculum of an educational unit has conceptually been invented by a number of 

curriculum experts starting from the mechanism, document contents, and the involvement of 

related parties. Murry Print, for example, developed one model known as the eclectic model, 

which includes three stages of development, namely, curriculum organization, curriculum 

development, and curriculum implementation. (Print, 1993). Limbong mentions the stages of 

curriculum development for an educational unit as consisting of formulating thought model, 

formulation vision, mission, and objectives, formulating the structure of program contents, 

selecting and organizing materials, organizing learning activities, selecting resources and 

learning instruments, and selecting assessment model (Limbong et al., 2017). Ralph Tyler also 

proposes one model known as the rational model. Tyler explains four stages that a developer 

has to go through in developing curriculum, which departs from four questions, namely:  

What educational purposes should the school seek to attain? What educational 

experiences can be provided that are likely to attain these purposes? How can these 

educational experiences be effectively organized? How can we determine whether the 

purposes are being attained? (Tyler, 1971) 

Besides such model, there are still various curriculum development models that, when 

analyzed and compared with one another, are fundamentally more or less the same. In general, 

the core of all existing models is how a curriculum developer can develop the components of a 

curriculum, which include the objectives, contents, learning, and assessment. 

The Development Mechanism and Documents of Curriculum for Madrasahs 

Research results show that madrasahs in East Kalimantan have generally developed curriculum 

with the development model known as the Educational Unit Level Curriculum (KTSP) (Muhaimin 

et al., 2008; Mulyasa, 2009). Philosophically, this model means that the curriculum has to be 

developed and implemented by an educational unit by involving all components of the 

madrasah and various related parties by still referring to the national standards that have been 

set through the Government Regulation NO. 32 year 2013 and a number of Regulations from 

the Minister of Education and Culture as the derivatives.  

Besides the development, contents or documents of curriculum for madrasahs in general 

meet the national standards for education in Indonesia. It is known that; 

First, majority of the curriculum documents for madrasahs in East Kalimantan have been 

developed by both designing and developing the purposes that emphasize students' spiritual 

attitude (Core Competency 1), students' social attitude (Core Competency 2), students' 

knowledge (Core Competency 3) and students' skills (Core Competency 4). Under this condition, 

it can be ascertained that the curriculum documents for madrasahs in East Kalimantan in line 

with the national standards and concept of Islamic education that aims not only to develop 

intellectual intelligence and students' skills but also to develop social and spiritual intelligence 

as a whole and integrated. This integration of objectives is also reflected clearly in the Objectives 



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of National Education as set forth in the Law on National Education System No. 20 Year 2003, 

which states “The potency development of learners into a believing and pious individual, with a 

noble character, healthy, knowledgeable, capable, creative, independent, and democratic as 

well as responsible as a citizen”. This is in line with the domain of objectives as stated by Bloom, 

that is, the cognitive domain that is related with learners' capability and intellectual aptitude to 

think, a domain affectively related with attitude, capability, and mastery of emotional, feeling, 

attitude and values practiced by learners; and the psychomotoric domain related to the physical 

skills and movements of learners (Munir; 2008). 

Second, the stages of developing curriculum and the contents of the curriculum 

documents for madrasahs in general have met the standards for curriculum contents for each 

educational unit levels (KTSP) because it has included context analysis, basis for the 

development of curriculum, principles of development, the tasks of elementary and secondary 

education, formulation of vision, mission, and the objectives of educational unit, structure and 

contents of curriculum, students' study load, teachers' work load, academic calendar, local 

contents, life skills, and class progression and assessment. This is seen from the documents of 

accreditation results that show that 85% of Islamic Elementary Schools (MI), 88.3% of Islamic 

Middle School (MTs), and 90.4% of Islamic High Schools (MA) have curriculum documents that 

are very complete or meet standards. This means that in general madrasahs in East Kalimantan 

have met the content standards for curriculum documents although it still cannot be 

ascertained whether those documents have been developed independently by educational 

units or whether they have been duplicated from the documents of other educational units of 

the same level. 

Third, the curriculum documents for madrasahs with the development model of 

Curriculum of Educational Unit Level (KTSP) has been accompanied with curriculum structure 

that covers subjects, structured and independent assignment design, study load, self-

development and arts, crafts, and entrepreneurship and local contents. If we map out the 

contents and documents of this madrasah curriculum, in general the curriculum documents for 

madrasahs have met the principles of curriculum development theoretically and the flow of 

education described by Diane Lapp in their book entitled Teaching and Learning: Philosophical, 

Psychological, Curricular Applications. In this book, we can find four schools of education, 

namely a) classical education. This school of education emphasizes on curriculum contents that 

support how students can master various disciplines through mastery of contents of various 

subjects both religious and non-religious subjects; b) personalized education. This school 

emphasizes the contents of curriculum that enable students to develop their potentials, talents, 

and interests through various self-development activities; c) interactional education. This school 

emphasizes the contents of curriculum that enable students to understand, review, and 

complete social problems through social interaction in the form of local contents with various 

forms; d) technological education. This school emphasizes the contents of curriculum that 

encourage students to have competency for real life needs (life skill). This last model can also 



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mean that students have to be equipped with technological skills that are compatible with the 

technological advancement of the time (Lapp, 1975) 

Table 1: The Completion of Development Mechanism and Documents Accreditation-based 
Curriculum for Madrasahs 

 
No 

 
Statement of Accreditation Standards 

Islamic 
Elementary 

School      
MI) /% 

Islamic 
Middle 
School 

(MTs)/% 

Islamic 
High 

School 
(MA)/% 

1 Curriculum documents that include the 
competency of students' spiritual attitude 
(KI1) 

81.8  91.7  87.5  

2 Curriculum documents that include the 
competency of students' social attitude (KI2) 

84.1  90  95.8  

3 Curriculum documents that include the 
competency of students' knowledge (KI1) 

88.6  83.3  91.6  

4 Curriculum documents that include the 
competency of students' skill (KI1) 

79.5  83.3  91.7  

5 Instruments for the education of religion and 
reason in line with the scope of the learning 
materials 

90.9    

6 Integrated thematic learning media in line 
with the competencies and scope of learning 
materials on each class level. 

75    

7 
 

Curriculum Documents are in line with the 
level of competency and scope of learning 
materials 

 88.3 % 79.17  

8 Curriculum development is in line with the 
Education Unit Level Curriculum (KTSP) by 
involving various related parties 

79.5  83.3  95.8  

9 Curriculum documents completeness 93.2  95  95.8  
10 Stages of curriculum development; analysis, 

composition, decision, and legalization 
97.7  90  79  

11 Curriculum structure, structured and 
independent tasks, learning load, self-
development and arts, craft, and 
entrepreneurship. 

79.5  86.7  100  

 
Fourth, the weakness in the level of completion of the accreditation-based development 

mechanism and curriculum documents for madrasahs that are seen in table 1 below are; a) 

Islamic Elementary School (MI) is still weak in terms of curriculum development by involving 

related parties (79.5%), completion of curriculum documents for Madrasahs that develop 

structured and independent tasks, self-development and arts, craft, and entrepreneurship 

comply with the standards (79.5%), completion of integrated thematic learning instruments 

(75%); b) Islamic Middle School (MTs) shows weakness in the curriculum development that 



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include students' knowledge competency and skill competency (83.3%) and the completion of 

curriculum development in line with the KTSP model that involve various related parties 

(83.3%); c) Islamic High Schools (MA) show weaknesses in the stages of curriculum development 

in the form of analysis, composition, decision, and legalization (79%) and the completion of 

curriculum documents in accordance with the level of competency and the scope of the learning 

materials (79.9). 

With regards to the learning process in East Kalimantan madrasahs, there are 21 indicators 

of learning process quality for all education unit levels from Madrasah Ibtidaiyah (MI), Madrasah 

Tsanawiyah (MTs) to Madrasah Aliyah (MA). The twenty-one quality standard indicators can be 

divided into two big components if related to the tasks and responsibilities of learning process 

quality completion in the madrasah. First, the task and responsibility component of all madrasah 

teachers and, second, task and responsibility components of madrasah principles. 

Task and Responsibilities of Teachers in Learning Process Standard Completion 

One of the national standards in education in Indonesia is the educator and academic staff 

standard. Among the educator standards in Madrasahs is that educator has to have five basic 

competencies, namely, the pedagogical competence, personality competence, professional 

competence, and social competence (Kumalasari et al., 2017; Undang-Undang RI Nomor 14, 

2005). Besides the above-mentioned four competencies, religion teachers lso have to have one 

other competence, namely, the leadership competence. This last competence includes a) the 

ability of teachers to plan for setting the application of religious teachings and noble characters 

in the culture of school community as part of the process of learning religion; b) teacher's 

capability in organizing potentials of school elements systematically to support setting the 

application of religious teachings in the school community; c) teachers ability to become 

innovators, motivators, facilitators, guides, and counselors in the effort to set the application of 

religious teachings in the school community as part of the culture; and d) the ability of teachers 

to guard, control, and direct efforts to set the application of religious teachings in the culture of 

the school community and to maintain the harmony between believers of all religions in the 

fabric of the Republic of Indonesia (Peraturan Menteri Agama RI Nomor 16, 2010; Sanjaya, 

2008). 

The role of teachers today has changed and keeps changing from instructor to constructor, 

facilitator, coach, maintainer, and manager of students' learning environment. Teachers are 

demanded to become facilitators that help the learners make assessment on the quality and 

validity of sources and new knowledge, act openly and professionally, critically and 

independently, active cooperators, collaborator, and mediators between learners, differentiate 

between "learning about" and "learning to become," make structures and supporting system 

that support the development of students' skills such as interactive learning, collaborative and 

independent among students, developing a learning environment that support critical thinking, 

creativity, and scientific learning among students, turning students into learners and life-long 



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innovators (Amin, 2016). Teachers have to be encouraged to work in an interdisciplinary manner 

(Alvunger, 2018) or not only understanding one discipline. 

In general, the learning process quality in madrasahs is already very good based on Table 

2 below, especially with regards to a) completeness of lecturers' syllabus that complies with the 

standards b) completeness of Lesson Plan; c) the availability of time allocation and learning load, 

d) the completion of learning group standards for each grade; e) the completeness of text books 

for each student; f) the ability of teachers to manage classes; g) the ability of teachers to open 

and conclude sessions.  However, the aspects that constitute the weak points of the learning 

process of madrasah teachers are also found, especially related to the following matters: 

First, the majority of madrasah teachers use the expository learning model.  This can be 

seen among Islamic High School (MA) teachers (79.17%) and Islamic Middle School (MTs) 

teachers (80%) who use the learning model that emphasizes student’s discovery and inquiry. 

This is contrary to the theory of child development. The age range of Islamic High School (MA) 

and Islamic Middle School (MTs) students, which is from 15 to 18, according to the theory of 

child development, allows children to think critically, solve problems, do independent research 

and develop knowledge through scientific research (Suryabrata, 2007; Slavin, 2018; Dahar, 

1989). Therefore, at this level, teachers are no longer supposed to follow the curriculum that 

centers on transmitting knowledge to students, but they have to also be able to facilitate 

students to develop their knowledge independently through constructivistic learning model 

such as discovery learning, project based learning, problem-based learning, and inquity learnng 

At this point, students' competency is not only limited to the concepts of various subjects, but 

also various skills that are known as higher order thinking skill (HOTS). The effort to improve 

HOTS among students of higher levels is in line with the discourse of improving the quality of 

learning process to achieve maximum learning. One of the main characteristics of successful 

learning is reflected in knowledge, attitude, and skills shaped by habits and improvement of 

HOTS among students in a well-structured design (Ramdiah et al., 2019; Hanafi, 2016; McNeil, 

2009). 

Second, madrasah teachers still need to elaborate and combine various learning methods 

such as teaching methods that involve lectures, demonstration, seminar, tutorial, deduction, 

brainstorming, discussion, independent learning, simulation, case studies. This can be seen in 

Table 2 that Islamic Elementary Schools (MI) teachers (76.6%), Islamic Middle Schools (MTs) 

teachers (75%), and Islamic High School teachers (77.5%) elaborate and combine well various 

learning methods. If we relate the objectives of learning in madrasahs with four categories, 

namely, spiritual, social attitude, knowledge and skill, then madrasah teachers have to 

understand well various learning methods. There are four families of teaching models offered 

by Joyce and Weil, namely, the humanistic model family, which aims to strengthen students' 

spiritual aspect; the information processing model family, which aims to strengthen students' 

cognitive aspect; the technological model family, which targets students' skills, and; the social 



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model family, which aims to build students' social attitude (Joyce and Weil, 1996; Ramayulis, 

2008; Daradjat, 2004). 

Third, the use of teaching media by teachers needs to be increased by considering the 

technological and scientific advancement. The level of satisfaction in Islamic Elementary School 

(MI) is 79.5%), Islamic Middle School (MTs) (85%), and Islamic High School (MA) (79.2%). In the 

era of information and technological advancement such as today, madrasah teachers are 

supposed to be innovative and creative in developing and utilizing various learning media that 

are in line with the characteristics of students and the basic competence targeted by each 

subject. The works of teachers or the available media are supposed to be maximized by teachers 

to improve the interest and learning achievements of learners. UNESCO revealed that various 

computer-based technology has been utilized, such as to distribute lesson plans through CD-

ROM's, arrange exchange programs through computer-conferences among schools and 

teachers, encourage the utilization of web-based materials, and use computer conferences to 

encourage discussions among learners (Nasrullah, 2014; Bostock, 2017). 

Fourth, the completeness of text books for students is still considerably low. Only 84.1% 

of Islamic Elementary Schools (MI), 85% of Islamic Middle Schools (MTs) and 79.17% of Islamic 

High Schools (MA) have textbooks available for each subject for each student. Ideally, there 

should not only be one learning source, i.e. text books, for students, but also other learning 

sources to widen and deepen students' horizon about various topics of studies. 

Fifth, the learning approach of madrasah teachers still need to be strengthened with 

student-centered approach in line with the view (Arends, 2014) and approach of scientific 

learning called for by the 2013 curriculum in Indonesia. Scientific in this manner is divided into 

three categories, namely: a) scientific activities towards affective competence through the 

affective process from the activities of accepting, practicing, appreciating, internalizing, and 

exercising; b) scientific activities towards knowledge through knowing, understanding, applying, 

analyzing, evaluating, and creating, and c) scientific activities for skill mastery through the 

activities of observing, questioning, trying, rationalizing, presenting, and creating (Peraturan 

Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayan Nomor 22, 2016). Table 2 below shows that 84.1% of Islamic 

Elementary School (MI) teachers, 81.7% of Islamic Middle School (MTs) teachers, and 8035% of 

Islamic High School (MA) teachers have applied combined learning methods that combine the 

teacher-centered approach and the student-centered approach. With this approach, it can be 

ascertained that students can develop knowledge to the best of their individual potentials. 

Sixth, madrasah teachers have not maximized the use of authentic assessment in class, 

workshops, laboratories, or in their internship places through questionnaires, observation, 

anecdotes, and reflections. This can be seen in the fact that 78.3% of Islamic Middle Schools 

(MTs), 79.2% of Islamic High Schools (MA), and 81.8% of Islamic Elementary Schools (MI) have 

maximized the use of authentic assessment. Characteristically, students of Islamic High School 

(MA) and Islamic Middle Schools (MTs) can well use the assessment desired by the government 

to improve their critical, creative, innovative, and collaborative thinking abilities continously. 



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The weakness can be seen in the utilization of assessment results to conduct learning 

improvement through enrichment and remedial. Teachers have to see students individually to 

identify their uniqueness. Therefore, humanistic approach with various treatments have to be 

applied well by madrasah teachers in East Kalimantan. Remedial and enrichment activities are 

manifestations of humanistic approach in learning. This is in line with the view and agenda of 

education for United Nations council that education is a fundamental human right and the right 

that enables a person to achieve more, education is a public right and education is gender 

equality that is strongly related to education for all (Webb et al., 2017). 

Table 2: The Completion of Teacher's Tasks in the Learning Process in Accreditation-based 
Madrasahs 

No Statement of Accreditation Instruments Islamic 
Elementary 

School   
(MI)/% 

Islamic 
Middle 
School 

(MTs)/% 

Islamic 
High 

School 
(MA)/% 

1 Syllabus standards completion  97.7  90  100 
2 Lesson Plan 88.6  78.3  87.5 
3 Time Allocation and Learning load 93.2  96.7  100 
4 Study Batch 88.6  93.3  91.67  
5 Text book completeness 84.1  85  79.17  
6 Classroom management 88.6  88.3 87.5   
7 Opening Class 88.6  86.7  91.6   

8 Selection of learning model 86.4  80  79.17   
9 Implementation of learning model 76.6  75  77.5   

10 Utilization of Learning Media 79.5  85  79.2   
11 Selection of learning source to use 81.8  90  87.5  
12 Learning approach selected 84.1  81.7  80.3   
13 Closing Lesson 81.8 % 86.7  87.5   
14 Utilization of Authentic Assessment 81.8  78.3  79.2   
15 Utilization of Assessment Results 81.8  75  87.5   

 
Therefore, teachers have to have skills related to the three domains in achieving the 

maximum quality of process and learning results in line with the objective, namely, the skills in 

designing curriculum, mastering pedagogical contents, and the skill in curricular consistency. 

This shows that teachers are curriculum designers (Huizinga et al., 2014). With regards to 

madrasahs, teachers have to master the materials of Islamic Studies, master pedagogy, and 

understands research methodology. 

Task and Responsibilities of Madrasah Principals in the Learning Process 

Madrasah principals do not only serve as the leader and manager but also serve as the 

superintendent. The superintendent role of madrasah principals has a significant relation with 

teachers' competence. This means that: a) teachers will have competence if the madrasah 

principals as school superintendents are involved actively in overseeing teacher's curriculum 



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design; b) teachers can understand problems and can make wise decisions that influence 

students' education; c) teachers can do their tasks and perform their main functions and 

improve students' learning achievements. Therefore, principals serve as the observers, 

superintendents, evaluators, and successors (Purwanto, 2017). Effective leadership of a 

madrasah principal can be seen from the aspect of effective implementation of leadership, 

instructional leadership, maintaining the atmosphere that centers on students, professional 

development and human resources management, involving parents and partnership with 

public, managing madrasahs effectively and implementing daily programs, applying effective 

interpersonal relations (Wahyuddin, 2017). Madrasah principals have to create the right 

condition to expand the field of studies, such as equality, environment, sex education, and drugs 

abuse in their teachings (Alvunger, 2018). 

Table 3: The Satisfaction of Madrasah Principals' Tasks in the Standards of Accreditation-Based 

Learning Process 

No Statement of Accreditation Instruments Islamic 
Elementary 

School   
(MI)% 

Islamic 
Middle 
School 
(MTs) 

Islamic High 
School (MA) 

1 Transparent and objective overseeing of 
learning process  

88.6  86.6  87.5   

2 Conducting supervision of madrasah 
teachers' learning 

88.6  90  79.1 

3 Monitoring the learning process by 
madrasah teachers 

84.1  85 79.1   

4 Follow up on the results of supervision 
on the learning process by madrasah 
teachers 

88.6 76.7  91.6  

5 Principals compose a report on learning 
monitoring 

77.3  78  83.3   

6 Realization of the follow up on the 
supervision results of learning process 

79.5  80  79.1   

 
The reality of level of task completion of madrasah principals on the standards of learning 

process for madrasahs in East Kalimantan, seen in Table 3 above. In general, the main tasks and 

functions of madrasah principals as superintendents and to monitor that the learning process 

by teachers is running well. In particular, the weakness is seen in the performance of supervision 

on the learning process by Islamic High School (MA) teachers (79.1%) and the follow up on the 

supervision results on the learning process by madrasah principals in Islamic Middle Schools 

(MTs) (76.7%). The weakness is on all levels in the performance of the monitoring of learning 

process by teachers, the composition of monitoring reports on the learning process and the 

realization of the monitoring results on the learning process by madrasah principals. 



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The implementation of supervision on the learning teaching and teaching by madrasah 

teachers to make sure that teachers are more effective in teaching in the classroom and to 

assure that the quality can be improved from time to time. The instruments for supervising 

teachers' performance developed by Puteri Darishah et al. in Kubang Pasu Middle School. Kedah 

Malaysia consisting of three aspects, namely: a) teaching and learning supervision instrument in 

the forms of knowledge, interpersonal skills and technical skills; b) attitude of teachers 

instrument and c) competency of teaching instrument that includes teaching strategies 

techniques, and method, communication with students.and the participation of student 

(Darishah et al., 2017). School principal serves as an effective manipulator of teacher activity, 

he/she has to be smart, high initiative, and with the ability to supervise effectively.  Experts like 

Ukeje, Ogunsanju and Nwaogu has identified four techniques of supervision by principals, 

namely: a) classroom visitation, which is the visit by principals to classrooms to see in person 

how teachers and students interact; b) workshop techniques, i.e. offering a group of people 

working together to identify problems and provide solutions to them during discussion and 

conferences under the supervision of sources and professionals; c) micro-teaching technique 

that gives the opportunity to superintendents and teachers to identify, define, try, explain, 

analyze, and retry certain teaching skills; d) research technique, i.e. investigating, which leads 

to new facts that need the use of research because it is related to factual observation in 

teaching-learning situation. Through research, super intendents can solve problems of 

education that can ad to professional knowledge and growth as well as those of the teachers 

bellow them (Hamalik, 2008).  

Competence of Madrasah Graduates in Indonesia 

To achieve graduates that meet the standards set by the National Education Standards, 

madrasahs have to have a good program of academic creation in every subject or program or 

activity independent from subjects. The description of the academic creation for madrasahs in 

East Kalimantan is as described in Table 4.  

Table 4 provides the information that Islamic High Schools (MA) have several weaknesses 

in the creation of academic atmosphere to achieve the objectives or graduates' competence. 

Efforts to condition learners to become true lifelong learners is very low and far from the 

national standards for education, which are 63.3% for Islamic Elementary Schools (MI), 76.7% 

for Islamic Middle School (MTs), and 62.5% for Islamic High Schools (MA). Other weaknesses 

can also be seen in Islamic Middle Schools (MTs) and Islamic High School (MA) in terms of the 

strengthening of students' creative, productive, and critical thinking through scientific 

approaches, such as study tours, laboratory practices, seminar and demonstration, and 

exhibition and strengthening of students' skill in acting independently, collaboratively, and 

communicatively through individual and group assignment, task reporting, presenting 

assignment results, involvement in committees, and involvement in various academic writing 

contests are done seriously by 16.66% of all madrasahs. 



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Table 4: The Satisfaction of Academic Atmosphere Creation for Madrasahs Based on 

Accreditation.  

No Statement of Accreditation Instruments Islamic 
Elementary 

School 
(MI)% 

Islamic 
Middle 
School 
(MTs)% 

Islamic High 
School 
(MA)% 

1 Strengthening sense of belief and piety to God 

Almighty among students 

 

93.2 

 

98.3 

 

91.7 

2 Strengthening students' social attitude 86.4 98.3 95.8 

3 Conditioning students to be true learners 63.6 76.7 62.5 

4 Activities of students' physical fitness 86.4 95 87.5 

5 Strengthening students' factual, conceptual, 

procedural and metacognitive knowledge 

 

79.5 

 

86.7 

 

83.3 

6 Strengthening of talents in local arts and 

culture among students 

77.3 - - 

 

7 

Creation of learning experiences in the forms 

of information on surrounding environment 

logically, critically, and creatively  

 

84.1 

 

- 

 

- 

8 Strengthening the ability to think creatively, 

productively and critically among students  

- 71.7 75 

 

9 

Strengthening students' skills to act 

independently, collaboratively, and 

communicatively  

 

- 

 

81.7 

 

75 

 

Several factors that might affect the weakness above in the creation of academic 

atmosphere in Madrasah in East Kalimantan, especially in Islamic Middle School (MTs) and 

Islamic High School (MA) to achieve the objectives or graduates competence, such as, the 

geographic condition of madrasah that is far from the city, the limited funding, motivation and 

discipline among teachers and students, the management of madrasah principal and the 

minimum infrastructures. Aside from various factors, the strengthening of teachers' 

competence and creativity of madrasah principals in managing the ducation unit based on 

quality (Arcaro, 2006) can be one of the ways to reduce such weakness. The success of a 

madrasah relies heavily on teachers and its leader. Madrasah leader is a person granted the 

authority to bring a madrasah to achieve its desired goal. The acquired trust is surely based on 

several factors. The behavior of madrasah leaders is one of the main factors that decides the 

capability of a madrasah to achieve its vision, mission, goals and targets. This describes that the 

attitude of every madrasah principal as a leader of an educational institution is directed towards 

helping achieve the objectives of curriculum and education, so the school principal is required 

to guide, direct, assign, oversee, assess the performance of teachers in schools/madrasahs that 



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he/she leads (Purwanto, 2017; Mujtahid, 2011; Suparlan, 2013). Aside from madrasah 

principals, teachers also have to understand three areas that strongly support the strengthening 

of academic atmosphere in madrasahs, namely, through  

a) konwledge of leaner and how they learn and develop within social contexts; b) 

conception of curriculum content and goal; an understanding of the subject matter and 

skill to be taught in light of the social purposes of education; c) an understanding on 

teaching in light of the content and learner to be taught, as informed by assessment and 

supported by classroom enviroments (Darling-Hommand, 2012). 

The ways developed by madrasahs to create an academic atmosphere include, among 

others, first, developing the model for collaboration among madrasahs, families, and 

communities. Joyce Epstein, for example, developed one model of collaboration between 

families, madrasahs, and communities to strengthen the professionalism of teachers in a so-

called Initial Teacher Education (ITE) Programmes.  One of the emphases of this model is on the 

fact that teachers have to communicate routinely with parents, leaderships and communities 

or madrasah committee to achieve the goal of madrasahs that have been set (Willemse et al., 

2018). Other factors include teachers' task to develop a learningt hat can develop students' 

critical thinking ability such as through simple debate in class. This debate can develop the 

critical, transformative, and philosophical thinking tradition among students (Moh Yamin, 

2010). Educators have to be able to create a social atmosphere in the classroom that encourages 

curiosity among students and can develop students' knowledge independently through the 

process of assimilation, accommodation, disequilibration, and equilibration. Then, teachers 

have to develop Research Based Learning (RBL) that can change students' mindset, express 

things that are not known to students, train students to conduct simple research, improve 

academic achievements, promote learning process, and encourage students to develop 

knowledge (Suntusia et al, 2019). Dwi Nugroho offers the learning of surrounding environment, 

school at work, meaningful project, programmed project and center of attention (Hadiyanto, 

2009). 

CONCLUSION 

Curriculum development for madrasahs, learning process, and creation of academic 

atmosphere are main factors in deciding the level of satisfaction of education goals with various 

categories. The main actor of this process are teachers and madrasah principals. Teachers have 

to understand various theories, policies, and implementation of curriculum and learning to face 

the advancement of science and technology, the demand and interest of the society and the 

characteristics of students in the millennial era. 

A madrasah principal as the authority of an education unit has to understand the concept, 

main task, and functions particularly those related directly to the quality of graduates such as 



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curriculum document development, learning and academic tradition of the madrasah through 

periodical and quality supervision and monitoring of learning process by teachers. 

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