Perda Syariah di Sulsel dan Sumbar

Perda Al Qur'an di Sekolah Akan Diberlakukan di Sulsel
Gunawan Mashar - detikcom

Makassar - Pendidikan baca Al Qur'an akan menjadi salah satu mata pelajaran di sekolah-sekolah formal di Sulsel. Pasalnya, kini DPRD Sulsel telah menyetujui pemberlakuan Perda ini pada rapat Paripuna DPRD Sulsel yang digelar Selasa 18 April.

Dengan pemberlakuan ini, berarti tiap sekolah di Sulsel wajib memasukkan pendidikan Al Qur'an dalam mata pelajaran muatan lokal.

"Kecuali sekolah yang didominasi oleh siswa yang tidak beragama Islam. Namun, siswa Islam yang sekolah di sekolah dominan non Islam, musti mengikuti pendidikan Al Qur'an lewat jalur informal," tutur Anas Genda, anggota Pansus Ranperda Pendidikan Al Qur'an, DPRD Sulsel ketika ditemui detikcom di Gedung DPRD Sulsel, Jl Urip Sumohardjo, Rabu (19/04/2006).

Dalam Perda ini, diatur 3 jalur Pendidikan Al Qur'an yang diajarkan kepada siswa.

Jalur pertama adalah lewat pendidikan formal. "Setiap sekolah yang dominan Islam, wajib mengajarkan pendidikan Al Qur'an," ucap Anas.

Jalur kedua yakni melalui pendidkan informal, yaitu pengajaran mengaji di rumah. "Informal ini melalui orangtua. Misalnya ia mengajar anaknya mengaji. Tapi ini berlaku bagi anak yang sekolah di sekolah yang banyak muridnya beragama non Islam," terang Anas.

Jalur ketiga yakni jalur nonformal. Jalur ini berupa Tempat Pendidikan Al Qur'an (TPA) dan sejenisnya. Khusus jalur informal dan nonformal pemberlakukannya lebih lanjut akan diatur dalam peraturan gubernur.

Peserta Didik Bersertifikat

Dengan adanya Perda ini, setiap siswa yang telah lulus mata pelajaran ini akan diberi sertifikat. "Nah pemberian sertifikat untuk jalur informal dan nonformal yang akan diatur lebih detail oleh peraturan gubernur agar sertifikatnya tidak asal kasih. Juga agar tenaga pengajarnya tidak sembarangan lebih lanjut akan ditentukan bagaimana kualifikasinya," beber Anas.

"Pada jalur informal, akan ditentukan syaratnya sehingga si anak yang diajar secara informal ini layak mendapat sertifikat," kata Anas, yang juga wakil ketua Komisi E DPRD Sulsel.(nrl)

W. Sumatra to require Koran skills

Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, The Jakarta Post, Padang

The West Sumatra provincial administration is getting closer to
requiring Muslim students and couples intending to get married to be
proficient in reciting the Koran.

The obligation is part of a regional regulation on Koran education
approved by the West Sumatra legislative council on Tuesday.

The deputy chairman of the council, Mahyeldi Ansarullah, told The
Jakarta Post that the regulation sprang from the council's
initiative and was deliberated in just one month with the full
support of all factions.

Despite the short period of deliberation, however, the regulation
had been discussed with a number of community groups, he added.

"The regulation was deliberated after the discovery of many students
in West Sumatra who were unable to read and recite the Koran. This
finding is worrying because it takes place in a region with a
majority population of Muslims," he said.

At the Imam Bonjol State Islamic Institute, for example, 30 to 35
percent of student applicants were not capable of reciting the
Koran. In a number of regions, only two out of every six couples
intending to get married were able to recite the Koran, he said.

Asked whether such a regulation would truly raise the quality of
education and human resources in West Sumatra, Mahyeldi said he
thought it would.

"The religious factor will stimulate the spirit to learn and raise
the desire to advance. Therefore I'm pretty sure this regulation
will help improve the quality of education," he said.

Under the regulation, all Muslim students would be obliged to hold
certificates from informal institutions such as the Koran Education
School before applying to higher education levels. If they did not
have a certificate, their parents would be asked to sign a
commitment to send their children to the Koran courses.

Any Muslim couples applying for marriage who could not recite the
Koran would be turned down until they became proficient.

Sudarto, the director of Pusaka, a nongovernmental organization
promoting pluralism, said the West Sumatra legislative council was
emphasizing a triviality.

"The quality of education and human resources in West Sumatra is
still relatively poor compared to those in other regions, let alone
in advanced countries. Does proficiency in reciting the Koran
automatically improve the quality of education? It doesn't,
right? ... It's true that we are poor, but we're also trying to
solve the problem in a strange way."

Sudarto said the deliberation of the regulation could be classified
as collusion because the regulation was financed by the state with
taxes collected from various groups, including non-Muslims.

It's unfair for the legislative council to prioritize one segment of
society, he said.

"Its substance is very weak. Does proficiency in reciting the Koran
improve competitiveness? Does such a proficiency make West Sumatra
people smarter, thereby boosting the capability of human resources?
This is explicitly irrelevant," said Sudarto, who is also a religion
teacher at a highly regarded private school in Padang, the capital
of West Sumatra.