Community Participation Based Education Financing Strategy at TPQ Al Birru Purwokerto Indonesia

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the strategy of education financing based on community participation and institutional efforts in realizing active community participation. This study is important to do because there are quite a few Al-Qur'an Education Parks that tend to be left behind due to weak financing. Community participation is considered appropriate for strengthening education financing as a form of just democracy which means that the community has the right to get quality education and is also obliged to provide costs. This study is a qualitative descriptive field study involving TPQ administrators, guardians of students, and related parties as informants. The results of this study indicate that active community participation can maintain the stability of education financing at TPQ Al Birru by involving guardians of students, Muslimat pengajian selasaan, cooperative institutions, and mosque administrators. In addition, active community participation cannot be separated from the role of leaders and figures who are able to embrace and educate the community to realize the importance of Al-Qur'an education so that it gives rise to a sense of ownership and responsibility for the sustainability of the institution.