Pandangan Dan Sikap Masyarakat Talang Mamak Terhadap Pendidikan Formal Di Desa Talang Jerinjing Kecamatan Rengat Barat Kabupaten Indragiri Hulu

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.