Abstract:
Ki Hajar Dewantoro said that through education the people can be developed
and refined so that they can socialize, parallel and known among the nations in the
world. The main purpose of education is the growth and the development of the
learner as a whole, so that they can become a mature or an adult person and able to
deal with the problems and the conflicts in everyday life. (Sri Sumarni 2012/14).
But, not all of the people can get education. It can be seen from the phenomena that
there are still many people who do not attend the school. For example it can be seen
from Talang Mamak Society because not all of the people get education in this
society. This problem is affected by some factors. That factors such as: residence
away, family encouragement factor, economic, and other environment factor.
However, at Talang Mamak society in Talang Jerinjing West Rengat Districts
Indragiri Hulu Regency, lack of education tool because factors place that so far and
inadequate roads. The purpose of this research was to know how are the views and
the attitudes of Talang Mamak society in formal education. The type of this research
was descriptive qualitative supported by opinion and fact. From the results obtained
from the questionnaire data and interviews, it can be concluded that Talang Mamak
society which in Talang Jerinjing village have already thought that formal education
was a very important thing. But, the lack of education descendingly living place that
is hard to access and unappropriate acces to the location, willingness to go to school
is very small.
