Religious Extracurricular as a Capital for Character Development of Students in Junior High School

Abstract

The number of  Islamic religious education hours  in public school has not been able to keep up with the rapid development of technology, thus character building through intra curricular learning is inadequate, the adolescents who do not have sufficient filters to select information through various technological media, intra curricular insufficiency in character building extracurricular existence of students is increasingly needed. For the implementation of this research a qualitative approach was used, the data collection techniques used were observation, interviews and documentation, while the data analysis technique used was interactive. After analyzing the research data, it can be concluded that character values ​​can be instilled in students through religious extracurricular programs. Another finding of this study was  that the limited number of  Islamic religious education hours in junior high schools that can be maximized through religious extracurricular activities.