Unleashing Excellence: Nurturing Student Character through the P5 Project in the Integrated Islamic School Network

Abstract

The development of technology towards the 21st Century and the phenomenon of the Corona Virus pandemic have led to an increase in technology misuse and learning loss during the pandemic. Character Education becomes a strong foundation for overcoming it. The government created the Merdeka Curriculum, which has a superior program for building the character of students in Indonesia with the Pancasila Student Profile Strengthening Project (P5). This study aims to find out how character building in implementing the P5 Project in schools under the auspices of the Integrated Islamic School Network (JSIT) in Lampung, namely SHSIT Insan Mulia Boarding School. Field observations, interviews, documentation, and literature studies carried out data collection. Researchers' data analysis was performed using data reduction, Display Data, and conclusions. The results of this study show that character education is carried out in integrated Islamic Schools periodically carried out programs from the Merdeka Curriculum. The P5 project is carried out through three stages, namely, project planning, project implementation process, and project evaluation. Implementing the Pancasila student profile project at the school was carried out in class X by taking 3 different themes with a total time of 486 JP with the theme Build a Soul and Body, Sustainable Lifestyle, and Entrepreneurship. The application in the two schools is equally applied to class X because the two schools implement two curricula, namely Class X using the Independent Curriculum, and Class XI and XII implementing Curriculum 13 (K-13).