THE NECESSITY AND REALITY OF ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS

Currently, Islamic religious education (PAI) is experiencing various obstacles due to factors and considered unable achieve the expected goals of PAI itself, so that many criticisms are directed at PAI, this study aims reveal what criticized from steps should be taken improve existing constraints, using a qualitative approach literature methods researcher collects reliable sources about problems occur concerning results indicate spotlight criticism include several aspects, namely: learning process less than optimal, incompetent educators, students who not pro-active, monotonous methods, varied media, incomplete evaluations. These aspects cannot carried out optimally experiences setbacks, therefore improvement strengthening these need studied solve in PAI.