Community Empowerment Strategy in Education Financing at the Darul Quran Aceh Besar Islamic Boarding School, Indonesia

Abstract

Community empowerment is considered one of the proper steps in strengthening education financing as a form of just democracy, which means that the community has the right to receive quality education and is obliged to provide funds. This research aims to discover 1) the pattern of education developed; 2) strategic steps for community empowerment in education financing; 3) supporting and Inhibiting Factors of Community Empowerment in Education Funding – data collection techniques through observation, interviews, and documentation studies. Research subjects include leaders and secretaries, treasurers, and school principals. Data analysis using descriptive qualitative provides data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion. The study results are:

1) The pattern of education developed in Dayah Darul Qur'an Aceh is by formulating the vision and mission. It uses a dual curriculum between the national education curriculum and the dayah curriculum. The dayah curriculum has excellent programs, namely memorising the Koran and a lot of Arabic and English.

2) Community empowerment steps in education financing include: a) education financing planning is carried out with the stages of problem analysis, potential analysis, and community interest analysis based on deliberation for consensus; b) the implementation of education financing is carried out through mobilising resources and funds, administrative and coordination activities, and the elaboration of programs with the principles of the community, by the community, and for the community; c) education financing is evaluated by comparing planned budget expenditures and realising their use with the principles of honesty and transparency. Community empowerment in education funding that is culturally religious and functional.

3) Inhibiting and supporting factors include the flow or process of disbursing funds, which must follow a systematic procedure, but support is good cooperation and professional education staff.