RELEVANSI PEMIKIRAN KI HAJAR DEWANTARA DENGAN KURIKULUM MERDEKA

Abstract

Ki Hajar Dewantara (1889-1959) was a national figure who shaped and colored Islamic educational civilization in Indonesia. The meeting point between the thoughts of Islamic educational civilization figures and Ki Hajar Dewantara is, namely, education is aimed at human safety and happiness, the urgency of religion in the educational process, accepting change in response to changing times, and education is the responsibility of every human being. Ki Hajar Dewantara believes that Education is a series of processes to humanize humans. The concept of education according to Ki Hadjar Dewantara is based on the principle of independence, which means that humans are given the freedom to develop and organize their lives according to their abilities and talents. Ki Hadjar Dewantara terms the among system, which prohibits punishment and coercion on students because it will kill the soul. independence and suffocating his creativity. Based on Ki Hadjar Dewantara's educational philosophy, the education system in Indonesia carries the Freedom of Learning philosophy as the basis for National Education governance. The Merdeka Curriculum as a form of implementation of the Merdeka Belajar philosophy provides opportunities for students and educators to develop their respective talents and abilities in accordance with the character, intelligence and circumstances of the students' conditions. In the Merdeka Belajar philosophy, there is a shift in the educational paradigm which allows for the transformation of education to maintain the existence of human dignity and develop into a complete person, so that a strong character will be formed that determines the identity of a nation.