A strategy for implanting Islamic moral values in sex education

Abstract

Promiscuity among adolescents is of great concern to parents and educational institutions. This is because it can cause chaos in the household sector. After all, many teenagers are pregnant before their time; unemployment can lead to crime, and so on. To overcome this problem, planting moral values is one of the answers. This writing examines how to instill moral values in sex education through school education institutions in a quite strict society in adolescent association, namely in Majalengka Regency, West Java, Indonesia. This study used a mixed research design, which combines quantitative and qualitative analysis. In this study paradigm, a concurrent triangulation model is then used. Participants evaluated that there was a high correlation between the improvement of morals and the total quantitative value of 0.861 as a result of teaching moral principles in sex education. The coefficient of determination, or momentum of the effect, of 74.1 percent —significantly larger than the 25.9 percent for other factors affecting students’ morale—further illustrates the power of this influence. The quantitative results are strengthened by a qualitative study that collects data through interviews and observation. This study concluded that the inculcation of moral values in sex education in State Islamic High Schools in Majalengka Regency, West Java of Indonesia, showed an increase because it could improve students’ sense of morality. This study can add to the literature and project references on how to instill sex education within a religious frame for school students in areas where social life is more stringent regarding morality.