ABSTRACT
This study aimed to describe the character education strengthening program through qiroah extracurricular activities to realize religious values and identify obstacles faced and efforts to overcome them. This was a descriptive qualitative research. Observation, interview, and review of documents were procedures carried out for this study. Miles and Huberman’s model of data analysis was used to validate and triangulate data. The results showed that the qiroah extracurricular activity program enables strengthening the religious character education through training activities or practice reading the Koran, praying the dhuha, istighosah, reading yasin, chanting tahlil and making pilgrimage to the grave. There were several obstacles to implement these activities. A few students came late and some of them did not have enough skills to be involved in those activities. Even so, qiroah extracurricular activities must be followed by seventh-grade and eight-grade students. The obstacles to implementing the qiroah extracurricular activity program in strengthening religious character education could be resolved properly.
