INDONESIAN MINISTER OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE REGULATION NO. 27YEAR 2016 ON EDUCATIONAL SERVICES [FOR THOSE WITH] THE BELIEF IN GOD ALMIGHTY BY THE EDUCATIONAL UNIT AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION TO PROTECT STUDENTS WHO HOLD KEPERCAYAAN/INDIGENOUS BELIEFS TO OBTAIN EDUCATION

The Indonesian Minister of Education and Culture Regulation No. 27 of 2016 on Educational Services [for those with] the Belief in God Almighty by the Educational Unit states that students’s religious education in aliran kepercayaan/indigenous beliefs religious education is done by following the legislation which governs the curriculum which says that educators provide education lessons in accordance with the teachings of the students’ faith. The government issued the regulation to protect children’s beliefs and to guarantee that the children who hold aliran kepercayaan/Indigenous beliefs are able a religious education aligned with their faith. However, it seems that the regulation is not easily implemented because the regulation is not in line with other education legislation. Such a failure to provide appropriate faith education (if Indigenous or outside the six accepted faiths) and consequent inability of a student to progress in their education is also a violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This paper discusses legislative inconsistency, and school policy and its impact on the student’s right to obtain education. The research has demonstrated that children’s rights to obtain an appropriate and relevant faith education (and full education) is abandoned due to legislative inconsistency and especially school policy exists where a student fails a grade when that students does not join in any religions classes, which is what children do when the religious education is not accord with their own or familial faith or tradition.