Integration-Interconnective: An Implementation of the Unification of Islamic and General Education Policies

The dichotomy between Islamic and general education leads to inequality in the education services provided to the community. This gap must be minimized, because national education aims to provide equal and fair educational opportunities. Describing the integrative-interconnective system as a potential solution to harmonize policies between the two educational institutions by adopting a post-positivistic paradigm with a quasi-qualitative approach is the purpose of the research. The literature study was used to collect information from various scientific articles of national repute, books, and education policies relevant to the research topic. The information obtained from various sources was then analyzed using qualitative research method analysis techniques. Based on the results of the analysis, it is formulated that various policies issued by the Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Ministry of Education and Culture can minimize the dichotomy by using an integration-interconnective approach, such as policies that do not limit that general study programs only exist in general universities and the strengthening of religious values in public schools that are internalized in learning objectives and co-curricular and extracurricular activities.