The Role of Islamic Education on Increasing Democratic Attitude and Religious Tolerance in High School Students in Indonesia

Abstract

—In the 21st century, democratic attitudes and religious tolerance among students everywhere are increasingly declining due to technology and digital developments that cause students have the tendency to be apathetic and less care about their environment. It is expected that Islamic education can prevent these behaviour. This study was conducted to analyze the relationship between Islamic Education and democratic attitudes and religious tolerance. Out of 900 high school students in West Java, Indonesia, 172 students were taken as research samples. This study uses a quantitative approach with correlational design in order to find out the relationship of a variable with other variables. This method reveals factual data based on information found. The results of this study indicate that between the understanding of Islamic Education (X) on Religious Tolerance (Y2) a significance value of 0.004 <0.05 which means there is a significant correlation, and also for democratic attitudes (Y1) towards Religious Tolerance (Y2) significance value amounting to 0,000 <0,05 which means there is a significant correlation. Hence, it can be concluded that Islamic religious education can improve democratic attitudes and religious tolerance among high school students.