Implementation of Islamic Education in Promoting Religious Awareness for High School Students in Kendari City

This paper reveals the condition of religious awareness of High School Students in Kendari. Religious awareness is seen in the implementation of religious teachings that leads to the religious understanding of the students. Their religious awareness is measured in three aspects: 1) The relationship of the students with God (prayer and fasting) and the relationships of the students with other students (social interaction) and the relationship between students and themselves (food, drink and clothing and morals). The research data is collected through observation, interview and documentation method. This study indicates that religious awareness of high school students in Kendari is still low. This is due to the low and disproportionate hours of Islamic education in schools compared to the extent of subject matter that must be accepted by the students; 2). Inadequate Islamic educational facilities/infrastructures exist; 3). The professionalism of teachers of Islamic religious education which is still not entirely proper is due to the low level of education of Islamic teachers, 4). The welfare of Islamic religious education teachers is still uneven, so religious teachers are still there whose attention is divided to seek additional income; 5). Islamic education learning method has not varied.