PERAN KUA DALAM BIMBINGAN KELUARGA SAKINAH: STUDI KUALITATIF DI KECAMATAN SEMPARUK

Abstract

This study examines the role of the Office of Religious Affairs (Kantor Urusan Agama/KUA) in sakinah family guidance in Semparuk District, the materials delivered, and the factors supporting and constraining implementation. It employed a descriptive qualitative approach with a field-research design. Data were collected through observation, interviews, and documentation. The thesis identifies three informant roles: the Head of the KUA, an Islamic religious counselor, and a prospective groom who attended the guidance. Data were analyzed through reduction, display, and conclusion drawing, while credibility was addressed through source triangulation and member checking. The findings identify five dimensions of the KUA’s role: administrative, educational, consultative, preventive, and coordinative. Guidance materials include the purposes of marriage in Islam, spouses’ rights and responsibilities, family communication and conflict management, household finances, family health, child education, and marriage administration and law. Implementation is supported by the regulatory mandate, KUA personnel, religious counselors, service facilities, and community support. Constraints include the perception of guidance as a formality, limited time, differences in participants’ understanding, distance, work commitments, and limited resource persons. The findings suggest that the institutional mandate and broad curriculum need to be supported by participatory learning methods and more continuous access to family guidance. The study describes implementation and participant experience; it does not measure the long-term effects of guidance on family harmony or divorce rates. The discussion is further interpreted through Islamic personal-social guidance and counseling, individual Islamic guidance and counseling, and Islamic psychology, without treating these perspectives as additional variables or new empirical data.