Currently, national education does not provide opportunities for educators and students to jointly develop students' potential and abilities. Quality education is education that has had careful planning to improve students' ability by freeing students from all forms of restraints. The quality of national education is highly dependent on the policies that support it. Nadiem Makarim created a new platform, namely Merdeka Belajar, with the latest policies aimed at changing education for the better, improving the quality of human resources in learning, and easing the burden that has been carried so far. The method used in this research is the library method. Sources of data are policies and literature related to Merdeka Belajar as a strategy to improve the quality of education. Related literature includes scientific books, journals, and articles. Analysis and interpretation of the literature through the editing process, theme classification, and meaning. The results showed that the Merdeka Belajar policy could increase students' potential, free teachers to innovate, open up school information, and increase community satisfaction with school performance.

Quality education is education that already has careful planning to improve the quality of human resources, by freeing students from their inability. With the existence of quality education, it will be born a generation that is superior from the aspect of life as the nation's successor. Nadiem Makarim created a new platform, namely “Merdeka Belajar” (Independent Learning), with the latest policies aimed at changing education for the better, improving the quality of human resources in learning and easing the burden that has been borne so far. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative which aims to describe independent learning as a strategy to improve the quality of education. While the sources taken by the author are scientific books, journals, articles as reference material in this study. The results of the study show that the independent learning policy can ease the burden on students, teachers, schools and the community so that in improving the quality of education the school can focus more and be committed to improving the quality of education.

Pandemi Covid-19 yang terjadi di dunia khususnya pada negara indonesia telah memberikan tantangan dalam berbagai aspek kehidupan termasuk pada dunia pendidikan. Kebijakan pemerintah telah mengeluarkan beberapa kebijakan pada masa pandemi namun kebijakan tersebut terus menerus di lakukannya revisi agar dapat mengatasi permasalahan pada kebijakan sebelumnya. Kebijakan pembelajaran tatap muka terbatas  sesuai dengan SKB 4 yang di ambil saat ini telah mengizinkan lembaga sekolah untuk melakukan pembelajaran tatap muka terbatas. Kemudian pembelajaran tatap muka dapat di mulai pada juli 2021, PTM dapat di lakukan bergiliran setiap kelasnya jadi tidak semua masuk berbarengan sudah mempunyai jadwalnya masing-masing. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis sejauh mana PTM di laksanakan terhadap hasil belajar pendidikan agama islam, sehingga dapat menjadi gambaran ke depannya sebagai bahan acuan dan perbaikan untuk nantinya. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif, penelitian ini di laksanakan pada bulan September-November 2021 yang beralokasi di SMA N 1 Campaka. Subjek pada penelitian adalah kelas XI IPA 2 tahun ajaran 2021/2022 yang berjumlah 34 orang. Teknik pengumpulan data adalah wawancara, lembar observasi, dokumentasi, hasil belajar siswa yang di peroleh 47,05% dapat di katakana kurang maksimal dalam proses pembelajaran namun proses pembelajaran sudah sesuai dengan pedoman pelaksanaan Pembelajaran tatap muka.

This community service article aims to improve friendship and change the character of the poor community into good ones at the Majelis Taklim Darussalam Mutiara Mas Housing Village Benteng Village, Campaka District, Purwakarta Regency. This is based on the fact that local people have poor behavior and lack of communication, differences in character and the economy make small problems complicated. The service method uses the Participatory Action Research (PAR) method, firstly conducting observations and interviews to fill out questions related to the character of the community, secondly analyzing the problems that occur then continuing with taking actions in the form of recitations at the Taklim Majelis every Saturday afternoon and every activity carried out by researchers observe every character of society.