SEKOLAH KOMUNITAS MTs PAKIS DI DESA GUNUNGLURAH, CILONGOK, BANYUMAS, JAWA TENGAH: UPAYA MANDIRI DALAM MENGATASI ISU PENDIDIKAN ANAK

Gununglurah village, in Cilongok district, Banyumas regency, Central Java, is an area which in 2011 still surrounded by thick forest and valley of Slamet volcano. Its community has low access on education. However, a year later, in the middle of mighty surroundings, they build MTs (Madrasah Tsanawiyah) PAKIS –Piety, Achievement, Knowledge, Integrity, Sincerity – to cope with their need of education. The purpose of this article is to describe and explain educational process in MTs PAKIS and its developing progress as community school. The research as the basis of this article accomplished through qualitatuve method and the data collected through focused group discussion with MTs PAKIS volunteers, its students and their parents. As an educational institution, MTs PAKIS delivers educational service through general courses as in formal junior high school (SMP). However, its method of delivering such courses is not instructional as in formal school of SMP. Self taught by reading, learning, and discussion is the main method of MTs PAKIS in delivering educational activities. MTs PAKIS also brought the students to learn and practice farming, raising livestock, and home-fishing activities. These activities carried out in order to familiarized students with their surroundings. MTs PAKIS is non-formal school. However, it is not community education services or center of community learning activity. MTs PAKIS is an eclectic mix of them and a school build by-to-for the community: a community school. It is hardly to find its recognizeable definitions in the realm of education. Nevertheless, it is an alternative or complementory way for community to increase their quality of life and well-being in their own inadequacy.Key words: education, MTs PAKIS, Community school