Author : Ust. Ade Irfan Maulana, M.Pd

INTRODUCTION
After midday prayer time arrived, the SDIT Subulussalam students immediately rushed to the Jam’i Al-Amanah Mosque to perform midday prayers in congregation. The location of the Jam’i Al-Amanah Mosque is still in the Subulussalam Islamic Boarding School area. This mosque has five bathrooms and two ablution areas. SDIT Subulussalam students perform congregational prayers at noon time and are accompanied by PAI teachers.
PAI teachers at SDIT Subulussalam, provide good role models for their students in congregational prayers. After the bell at 12.00 WIB, they rushed to provide good role models by accompanying them in performing their ablutions and becoming Prayer Imams in congregational prayers.
There are several obstacles regarding SDIT Subulussalam students who are often late in performing congregational prayers, one of which is the lack of water used for ablution, resulting in long queues, as well as the lack of PAI teachers on duty to control students.
Educating children to become people who adhere to the Islamic faith is essentially very difficult, especially living in the current era, an era where people from children to parents tend to imitate cultures that are no longer Islamic. In addition to the flow of modernization having a positive impact on the development of Science and Technology (IPTEK), it also has a negative impact which is seen in general on students at SDIT Subulussalam, Tangerang Regency. Appearance Game Playstation, the internet with its social media games (facebook and tweeter), and smartphones with all its entertainment features, students lose track of time, so they forget about prayer (Nuryanti, 2016).
The existence of a prayer room at SDIT Subulussalam Tangerang Regency, in this case is to make the Muslim generation aware of themselves as Muslims, especially awareness in holding congregational prayers. Routinely every day, the rules at SDIT Subulussalam Tangerang Regency require congregational prayers in the prayer room before returning home from school except on Fridays. These rules apply to the entire SDIT Subulussalam Tangerang Regency academic community.
Based on the results of the researcher's observations in observation activities, it was seen that efforts to familiarize students with congregational prayers as outlined in school regulations were considered not optimal. This is proven by the large number of students attending congregational prayers who arrive late, are even reluctant to perform congregational prayers and the students' lack

of understanding regarding the practices or habits of congregational prayers. This cannot be separated from the lack of control carried out by the SDIT Subulussalam Tangerang Regency teacher board regarding congregational prayers.
Habituation is a very important educational tool, especially for children in elementary school. These children have not yet realized what is said to be good and what is said to be bad in a moral sense. They also don't have obligations that must be carried out like adults. Therefore, as the beginning and basis of education, habituation is the only tool. From birth, children must be trained in good habits and actions (Ulya, 2020).
Education with habituation can be carried out programmed in learning or unprogrammed in daily activities. Programmed habituation activities in learning can be carried out with special planning within a certain period of time (Gunawan, 2014). The aim of implementing the habituation method in schools is to train and accustom students consistently and continuously to a goal based on religious principles, so that it is truly ingrained in the students and ultimately becomes a habit that is difficult to abandon in the future (Ahsanulkhaq, 2019).
In relation to teaching methods in Islamic education, it can be said that habituation is a method that can be used to get students used to thinking, behaving and acting in accordance with the guidance of Islamic religious teachings. Through habituation, students who have strong memory "records" and immature personality conditions will easily dissolve into the habits they carry out every day. Therefore, as a start in the educational process, habituation is an effective way to instill moral values into the souls of students. These values embedded in him will then be manifested in his life since he begins to enter adolescence and adulthood (Arief, 2012).
As for As for the supporting factors in forming the religious character of students through the habituation method, Sapuroh (2022) states, including full support from the students' parents, joint commitment of the school community in realizing a religious culture in the school, facilities or infrastructure that support the implementation of religious activities.
Purwaningsih & Izzah (2017) in their research stated the role of the teacher in getting used to congregational prayer is as an educator, teacher, mentor, advisor, model and role model, camp mover, and perspective generator. The role of the teacher is very important, because without a teacher students will not carry out the habit of congregational prayer. The role of schools is also very large. The school facilitates a place for ablution and a place of worship, namely a large and clean prayer room. The school's vision and student rules also support the creation of religious students.
The research results of Djollong et al., (2019) show that the efforts of Islamic Religious Education teachers to familiarize their students with congregational prayers are through exemplary education, habituation education, education with advice, education with demonstrations, and education with practice. The difference between this research and this research can be seen in the efforts made by Islamic Religious Education teachers.
Meanwhile, the research results of Saerofah et al., (2022) show that the efforts of Islamic Religious Education teachers by (1) teachers providing examples (as good role models), giving good advice, giving punishments, (2) good cooperation between PAI teachers and other teachers. The existence of this research looks different because the efforts made by Islamic Religious Education teachers are slightly different.
As for evaluating the congregational prayer habituation program, Abdurachman dkk., (2021) stated that the evaluation was carried out by all stakeholders involved, and carried out every month with the aim of analyzing the shortcomings and advantages of the habituation program. And the evaluation tool used to evaluate congregational prayer habits is attendance at each prayer time.
This is what attracted the author to research and study further about matters related to Islamic religious education, especially the efforts of teachers in getting students to practice congregational prayers at SDIT Subulussalam, Tangerang Regency. So researchers consider it important to carry out this research to find out educators' efforts to get used to congregational prayer and its influence on students' personalities. This research aims to determine the efforts of PAI teachers to get their students used to praying together, as well as to find out the supporting and inhibiting factors in getting students used to praying together at SDIT Subulussalam, Tangerang Regency.
METHOD
The research method used in this research is a qualitative research method with a descriptive type. Qualitative research is a research procedure that produces descriptive data in the form of written or spoken words from people and observable behavior (Margono, 2019). The type of descriptive research is a method for researching the status of a human group, an object, a set of conditions, a system of thought or a class of events in the present (Rukajat, 2018). In relation to the descriptive method, this research does not intend to test a hypothesis, but only describes what is true about symptoms or variable conditions by means of the data obtained being presented through
verbal expressions that can describe the actual condition (Arikunto, 2010).
The main data source is then referred to askey informant (key informants) in this research
were Islamic Religious Education teachers at SDIT Subulussalam Tangerang Regency because they were seen as the right people and knew correctly about the data to be collected. Apart from that, it also randomly selects several students from SDIT Subulussalam Tangerang Regency from each class to find out the effect of congregational prayer on their personality.
Data analysis in this research was carried out using the method in statistics. The data analysis in this research aims to simplify the results of processed qualitative data which are arranged in detail, systematically and continuously through the following steps: First, data reduction, namely the center of selection, focus of attention, simplification, abstraction and transformation of rough data that emerges from notes in the research environment. Second, presentation of data, namely a series of information that is structured and allows decision making and action to occur. Third, conclusions are drawn from the beginning of the research until the research ends so that the conclusions obtained are guaranteed credibility and objectivity.
The researcher's efforts to ensure the validity of the data found apart from data obtained from interviews with the object directly but also looking for evidence of other answers and from other sources. In this research, the author checked the validity of the data using triangulation. Triangulation is checking the validity of data by utilizing something other than the data for checking purposes or as a comparison of the data. In this research, researchers used triangulation of data sources (Moleong, 2007).
FINDINGS
Efforts of Islamic Religious Education teachers to get used to holding congregational prayers at SDIT Subulussalam Tangerang
Based on the results of observations, interviews and documentation obtained by researchers. that there are several methods used by Islamic religious education teachers in trying to get students used to praying in congregation at SDIT Subulussalam Tangerang Regency, namely 1) education by example, 2) education by habituation, 3) enforcing discipline. The following is presented in table form below regarding the efforts made by Islamic religious education teachers in getting used to congregational prayer.
The results of observations that
good examples for students in congregational prayers. For example, after the bell at 12.00 WIB, the teacher rushes to provide a role model or a good example by accompanying them in performing ablution and being the Prayer Imam for congregational prayers.
Education by Habituation
The habituation method in prayer education here is by the PAI Teacher at SDIT Subulussalam always reminding about the importance of congregational prayer, both at school and outside school. Every time it is prayer time, the teacher also invites students to pray so that as time goes by students will get used to praying five times a day when prayer time has arrived.
Enforcing Discipline
The Islamic religious education teacher at SDIT Subulussalam Tangerang Regency always applies discipline to all his students. This is proven by giving punishment to every student who does not perform congregational prayers without permission by giving advice to giving small laws such as running around the school field. This punishment is basically not because the teacher hates it, but the aim is more to educate the students to be disciplined so that the punishment is used as a sense of responsibility for what has been done.
Supporting and Inhibiting Factors Faced by Islamic Religious Education Teachers in Familiarizing Students with Congregational Prayer at SDIT Subulussalam Tangerang
Supporting and inhibiting factors are processes that are often faced by everyone in doing various things, so serious effort is needed to learn to understand and develop a wise attitude in dealing with these factors.
The following is presented in table form below regarding the Supporting and Inhibiting Factors Faced by Islamic Religious Education Teachers in Familiarizing Students with Congregational Prayers.
Based on the results of observations, interviews and documentation obtained by researchers. that there are several inhibiting and supporting factors faced by Islamic religious education teachers in trying to get used to congregational prayers at SDIT Subulussalam, Tangerang Regency. One of the biggest supporting factors, namely the existence of good cooperation between the principal and teachers who always control the congregational prayers of their students when the students are praying together in order to anticipate that there will be no commotion. Meanwhile, one of the inhibiting factors is within the students themselves. The students at SDIT Subulussalam still looked relaxed when class ended at 12.00 WIB and were joking with other friends, so that congregational prayers were hampered, especially in terms of time. This always happens due to other factors, namely the lack of teachers who carry out control/supervision.