Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 269 3rd International Conference on Education Management and Administration (CoEMA 2018) The Role of School Committees in Improving the Quality of Education at Muhammadiyah Islamic Elementary School Blangpidie Aceh Indonesia Baidullah Niswanto Secretary of Krueng Semayam Village Department of Educational Administration Nagan Raya Regency, Aceh, Indonesia Syiah Kuala University, Indonesia [email protected] [email protected] Nasir Usman Department of Educational Administration Syiah Kuala University, Indonesia [email protected] Abstract: The purpose of this study is to find out the extent of the school committee’s role in improving education quality at Muhammadiyah Islamic Elementary School of Blangpidie. The design of this research is descriptive qualitative research, which is a qualitative research. The method to obtain the data is observation, interview, documentation, and triangulation. Technique of data analysis in this study uses data reduction, data visualization, drawing conclusions and data verification. The subjects of this study are School Committee and Principal of Muhammadiyah Islamic Elementary School of Blangpidie. Based on the study results, it is found that (1) The school committee programs in improving the quality of education at Muhammadiyah Islamic Elementary School has been arranged but not well documented. (2) The implementation of the school committee programs in improving the quality of education at Muhammadiyah Islamic Elementary School has run very well. (3) The obstacles faced by school committee in implementing the program at Muhammadiyah Islamic Elementary School of Blangpidie, most of the school committee members are sluggish because of their busy life. Keywords: school committee, education quality I. INTRODUCTION internal and external stakeholders by providing space Administering education needs to pay and attitude that is conducive to the growth of intrinsic attention to quality improvement from time to time. motivation (Kholis et al., 2014). Quality is a big picture and characteristics of goods or The participation of internal stakeholders, services that show their ability to satisfy the expected especially school committees, holds a very important or implied needs (Rohiat, 2012). In the context of influence on improving the quality of school education. education, understanding the quality includes input, School committees act as an advisory agency, process, and education output. The quality of education supporting agency, controlling agency and mediatory consists of academic quality and non-academic quality agency between the government and the community in (Kholis et al., 2014). Both of these quality aspects can education units (Misbah, 2009). The results research be seen from the school level and learning level. Mulyono (2014) on the comparison of the role of The quality of education in Aceh if linked to school committees at public and private vocational human development index (HDI) every year shows a high school yields good results, but there are trend of progress and improvement. According to the discrepancies on the role of the school’s highest 2017 Central Statistics Agency’s report, the province’s committee in which at public vocational high schools, HDI in 2016 has a high status compared to the 2010- the highest role of the school’s committee is an 2015 period with medium status. Meanwhile, the HDI Advisory Council, while at private vocational high of Nagan Raya Regency and Southwest Aceh Regency schools, the highest role of the school committee is as a is currently not in line with the improvement of the supporting council. HDI of Aceh province, whereas the HDI of Nagan In this study, the researcher seeks to dig more Raya Regency and Southwest Aceh Regency are information about the role of committee at the research classified as medium. site. As we know that the committee plays an important The HDI status can also illustrate that the role in school development. Regarding the size of the quality of the education sector in Nagan Raya and school committee’s role in improving the quality of Southwest Aceh still raises serious attention from all education and related to the level of education in stakeholders. Stakeholders in education sector can Southwest Aceh Regency that needs serious attention, come from school’s internal or external. Internal it is necessary to conduct a deeper study on the role of stakeholders are those in a school which consists of the school committee in enhancing the quality of teachers, staff, and school committees, while external education at Muhammadiyah Islamic Elementary stakeholders are those who are from outside the school School of Blangpidie. The purpose of this study is to consisting of student’s parents/guardians (Krisnayanti, determine the extent of the school committee’s role in 2014). The actor of quality school development and bettering the Quality of Education at Muhammadiyah stakeholder’s participation culture are the principal Islamic Elementary School of Blangpidie. which focuses on developing the potentials owned by Copyright © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). 68 Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 269 II. METHODS institutional cultures in school management (Sagala, This study uses descriptive qualitative method 2017), namely: which is a type of qualitative research. Qualitative a. The school committee is a school partner that research is also called naturalistic research. It is called jointly strives for the development of schools. qualitative because the nature of the data collected is b. Developing the school’s strategic plans by devising qualitative pattern rather than quantitative because it school’s priority programs, school’s goals, target does not use measuring instruments (Rahmat, 2012). It achievement strategies, control of achievement and is called naturalistic because the field situation of the evaluation of attainments of the school’s targets. research is natural or as it reasanable, without c. Developing school’s yearly plans. manipulation, experiment, or test. The study was d. Conducting internal monitoring and regular self- conducted at Muhammadiyah Islamic Elementary evaluation, as well as reporting and discussing the School of Blangpidie, Southwest Aceh Regency. outcomes at the school committee forum. This study is planned to begin from April to e. Preparing the school annual report that describes March 2018. The subject of this study is the Principal the implementation of the school’s annual planning. and School Committee. This study uses the researcher The annual school report is discussed in the forum as an instrument. Data collection on the role of the and must be approved by school committee. School Committee in Improving the Quality of f. Organizing school review, this action is very useful Education at school through Observation, Interview, to find out the objective conditions of each school Documentation and, Triangulation is by asking within a coaching zone. questions that have been designed in accordance with g. Conducting a survey on school opinions on school the research objectives. In this study, the researcher stakeholders. carries out two phases of data analysis, the first is data h. Organizing “open days” for parents and the analysis before the research in the field and the second community, so they have a better understanding of is by employing Milles and Huberman qualitative data the internal life of the school. analysis, which includes: (1) data reduction; (2) data i. Monitoring school’s performance which includes display/ data visualization; and (3) drawing school management performance, principal conclusions and be verified. leadership, quality of teaching and learning including teacher’s teaching performance, student III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION learning outcomes, school’s discipline and code of By analyzing the results of the above research, conduct, school’s accomplishments, both from intra the writer seeks to provide a discussion by presenting a and extra-curricular aspects. connection with experts’ opinions. To clarify the discussion about the role of the school committee in Building good and high-quality education is improving the quality of education at Muhammadiyah not an easy task. It requires collaboration from all Islamic Elementary School of Blangpidie, here are levels of society and school committees. Schools are a some explanations: shared responsibility of all social classes, this is because the society is not only the users of education, School Committee Program in Improving but also the benefit recipient of schools. The good Education Quality at Muhammadiyah Islamic quality or poor quality of the school strongly depends Elementary School of Blangpidie on the role of the community through the school The school committee plans and prepares committee. programs in proportion to the needs of the school. It encourages the growth of attention and commitment of The Program Implementation of the School the community towards the implementation of quality Committee in Improving the Quality of Education education. In addition, it cooperates with the at Muhammadiyah Islamic Elementary School of community and schools regarding the application of Blangpidie quality education, accommodates and analyzes Ever since the launch of the concept of aspirations,