BOARDING SCHOOL PROGRAM STRATEGY IN AN EFFORTS TO FORM STUDENT CHARACTER AT SMAIT BUAHATI ISLAMIC SCHOOL JAKARTA

Abstract

The state of life in the 21st century is very challenging and competitive. This has a significant impact, among others, on high levels of depression in addition to the availability of opportunities for those who have life competencies, as well as having multiliteracies that strengthen the physical, mental, and intellectual capacities of students. Therefore, students are required to have a strong character in order to face the challenges of the 21st century. (Daryanto & Karim, 2017). This study aims to organize a boarding school program in character formation at SMAIT Buahati Islamic School. The method used is descriptive qualitative with data collection techniques being the most important step in the study, because the goal is to obtain complete data. Data collection in this study the author did it by: Observation and interviews with informants namely SMAIT Buahati Islamic School Jakarta by asking questions to informants, in this case conducting interviews with the principal, curriculum division, student affairs, dormitory heads/musyrif-musyrifah, head of the Al Quran division, and the person in charge of ICB (Islamic Center Building). Test the validity of the data by comparing data obtained in the field such as observation notes, interviews, documentation studies.The results of the study indicate that the boarding school learning system for character building of students has a high success rate. In addition, students will be able to adapt as individuals and as a society in a small scope. In addition, character education through the boarding school system aims to form strong people, have good morals, are noble, tolerant, able to develop dynamically, and are oriented towards science and technology. SMAIT Buahati Islamic School has advantages in character building through the habituation of worship and positive behavior as well as learning the Qur'an which is a unique subject with a memorization target of 15-30 Juz. What makes researchers interested in researching at SMAIT Buahati Islamic School because character building is one of its advantages, with the ICB (Islamic Culture Building) agenda every week, Keputrian every week, Al-Matsurat reading together every morning, Al-Kahfi reading every Friday, Qur'an learning 4 days a week, Literacy Activities every Wednesday, Sharing Class with the homeroom teacher every Tuesday, LDKS (Basic Student Leadership Training) and Dormitory Weekly Study, SMAIT Buahati also offers full-day and boarding classes. Students are free to choose between full-day or boarding classes. SMAIT Buahati offers special scholarships for students who have completed 30 juz (chapters).