Pendidikan Karakter Religius dalam Membentuk Kedisiplinan Ibadah Santri

This study was motivated by differences in students’ worship discipline despite the implementation of worship habituation and an intensive caregiving system at Al-Ihsan Baron Islamic Boarding School, Bogor. This study aims to describe the implementation of religious character education in developing students’ worship discipline and to identify the supporting and inhibiting factors. The study employed a qualitative approach with a descriptive method. Data were collected through observation, interviews, and documentation. The data were analyzed to describe the implementation of student guidance and the factors influencing worship discipline. The findings indicate that religious character education is implemented through worship habituation, intensive mentoring by dormitory supervisors (musyrif), and discipline reinforcement. Worship habituation includes the five daily congregational prayers, tahajjud prayer, and dhuha prayer. Mentoring is carried out through daily supervision, advice, mutaba’ah (individual monitoring), Ijtima Kamar (dormitory meetings), and communication with students’ parents or guardians. Discipline is reinforced through school regulations, disciplinary hearings (Mahkamah), a violation-point system, sanctions, and rewards. Supporting factors include structured worship routines, the involvement of teachers and student organizations, close relationships between musyrif and students, communication with parents or guardians, and a religious dormitory environment. Inhibiting factors include differences in students’ motivation, fatigue, boredom, peer influence, limited time for individual mentoring, and facility constraints. This study concludes that the intensive caregiving system supports the development of worship discipline; however, its implementation is not yet fully consistent, and students’ worship awareness has not developed evenly. Therefore, habituation needs to be accompanied by continuous individual mentoring so that worship discipline develops into a consistent habit and independent awareness..