The Challenges of Civic and Moral Educations for Young Muslim Indonesian

Abstract

Civic education in Indonesia is a general compulsary subject within the scope of general education. Theoretically, civic education has to instill the values of nationalism and patriotism. However, in its implementation, civic education faces several obstacles. The obstacles are not only in terms of materital, method, and evaluation, but also from the students who are mostly Muslims. In obtaining the data, qualitative approach was applied. As a result, several challenges were faced in the implementation of civic education either from the Muslim students or the environment such as the poor morality, the separation of curricular narratives of civic education and religion, the rejection of nasionalism and patriotism value, the weak tolerance, the development of increasingly liberal human rights, and the spread of sexual behavior. Such condition represents civic education as a subject that tries to create good citizens that do not have a connection with moral teaching based on religious narratives that have become a belief and are ingrained in Muslims.