Eksistensi Madrasah dan Sekolah Islam sebagai Lembaga Pendidikan Islam dalam Sistem Pendidikan Nasional (Studi Kasus di MAN Yogyakarta III dan SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Yogyakarta)

Islamic education has a very important role in the whole of human life. Education is interaction between people, especially between educators and educated in order to achieve the goals of National education. Efforts and intentions of integrating Madrasah and Islamic schools into the real system of National Education and initiatives began to take place during the New Order period. This research method using naturalistic approach. Resources are main people who are determined by snowball and purposive. Data were collected through observation technique, indepth interview, interview/dialogue and documentation. The results of the study described in the SKB Three Ministerial Decrees are "that the general subject level of the madrasah reaches the same level as the general level of public school at the same level". It is also stipulated that with the achievement of the general subject level of Islamic school madrasah similar to those in the public schools, schools and madrasah and Islamic schools are recognized as having the same status, so that: (a) Islamic madrasah and school diploma may have (b) Madrasah graduates and Islamic schools can continue higher-grade public schools, and (c) Islamic madrasah students and schools may move to public schools of the same level. Thus gradually madrasah (including MA) are integrated into the National Education System.