Fostering student discipline in boarding schools toward industry 4.0

Abstract

This study focused on school strategy in fostering student discipline in boarding schools. These strategies are: (1) fostering discipline and education in state defence, (2) religious formation, and (3) evaluation of its fostering activities. This study uses a qualitative approach with a type of case study-data collection techniques were conducted through observation, interviews and documentation. Data analysis was effected by reducing data, presenting data and drawing conclusions. The results of this study indicate that: (1) the strategy for improving student discipline of is to adopt a military system which involves personnel of the Indonesian military and police (TNI and POLRI) as trainers for fostering student habitual greeting and respect when meeting older people and habituation in eating manners, inherent supervision and formation and activation of the student organization, (2) a strategy in religious formation that adopts a quasi-Islamic boarding school coaching, for example, which obliges prayer five times in the congregation, follows Islamic religious obligatory activities, such as Qur'an reading, lecturing, praying in Friday, visit study, Friday sermon and celebration of forty days and working with third parties in conducting religious guidance and (3) evaluating the development of a reward and punishment system that has an impact for each student.