26 January 2024

Arabic Language Education Study Program Holds Lecturer Meetings and Discussions

The Arabic Language Education Study Program is finalizing preparations to welcome lectures for the even semester of the 2023/2024 academic year by inviting lecturers within the Arabic Language Education study program to coincide with Friday, January 26, 2024.

Apart from being attended by lecturers from the Arabic Language Education (PBA) study program, lecturers' meetings and discussions discussing the evaluation of the learning process for the odd semester of the 2023/2024 Academic Year were also attended by lecturers from the Islamic Religious Education Study Program, who are still in the same department under the auspices of the Tarbiyah Faculty, namely the Department of Islamic Religious Education.

The meeting started at 08.30 which began with remarks delivered by the Head of the Islamic Education Department, Drs. Suluri, M.Pd, by providing an introduction to the history of the existence of Islamic Religious Education (PAI) and Arabic Language Education (PBA) within the Faculty of Tarbiyah UIN Raden Mas Said Surakarta. In his foreword, he explained the historical aspects so that the PAI and PBA study programs were able to run hand in hand and maintain the collaboration that had been built since 1997.

In his presentation, Drs. Suluri, M.Pd explained that PAI and PBA were the embryo of the founding of STAIN Surakarta, which previously in 1992 was part of IAIN Walisanga which opened a Faculty in Surakarta with a scientific orientation on Fiqh and Ushuluddin which was located at PGA Solo (Sriwedari), and in 1997 changed status to STAIN Surakarta.

Furthermore, he emphasized that since the beginning of his studies at the Tarbiyah Faculty, the Act IV Program there had been twists and turns in development in perfecting the romance of the Tarbiyah Faculty with the initial embryos being PAI and PBA. Therefore, he hopes that collaborative efforts and cooperation in various aspects can be maintained and developed, such as through mentoring efforts or thesis testing in the two study programs.

On the next occasion, the coordinator of the PBA study program, Anisatul Barokah, M.Pd.I, started by expressing feelings of happiness because the meeting could be attended by the majority of lecturers in the PBA and PAI study programs. He explained the importance of "preparing" for accreditation from an early age through online or offline data banks in order to maintain the accreditation of PBA study programs that have achieved the "UNGGUL" designation. Therefore, Google Drive has been prepared as a data bank with a large enough storage capacity at the address pba.fit@uinsaid.ac.id and maximizes the website https://pba.fit.uinsaid.ac.id

She emphasized that of course these steps and stages would not be separated from the contributions of lecturers within the PBA Study Program in particular and the Tarbiyah Faculty of Science in general. Apart from the preparation for accreditation from an early age, she explained that the micro-teaching support in the PBA study program had run smoothly, and several PBA programs related to the PBA student learning process had run smoothly, with the achievement of no PBA students dropping out.

In her report, the Coordinator of the Arabic Language Education Study Program, Mrs. Anisatul Barokah, M.Pd.I, expressed her gratitude for the achievements of PBA and her gratitude to the lecturers of the PBA study program who have sincerely accompanied students through the placement test program, makbaroh alam, insya' ilmi— which directs 6th-semester students to make their thesis proposals using Arabic, making it easier to carry out their thesis proposal seminars. Apart from that, to familiarize yourself with Arabic, he and his fellow PBA lecturers have formed a mudabbir team to master Arabic for students through mentoring and familiarization.