ABSTRACT
Religious skills have been eliminated from the revised Curriculum 2013, except for the subject of religion. This indicates that the government has not formulated clearly what it is the core values of Pancasila education system. This education system is oriented towards the establishment of nation and character building. This paper aims to formulate the religious skills that have been mandated by Pancasila. The national education system tends to adopt corrupted modern Western education, as education does not really train students’ critical thinking abilities. This kind of education system has a negative contribution to the establishment of the modern state of Indonesia. The success of the West in building modern nation states is due to education systems that rely on the aspect of ratio, supported by strong law enforcement. Actually it is possible to produce religious skills from modern knowledge, as long as the latter is synergized with religion, which functions as a source of values. In this regard I agree with Albert Einstein’s statement that ‘religion without science is lame, science without religion is blind’.
