EFL STUDENTS’ VIEWS ON INDONESIA’S CURRICULUM : FREEDOM TO LEARN – INDEPENDENT CAMPUS

Education is something that cannot be avoided in life. Everyone has the right to get an education as it should be, but education itself is not something that can be misused once it has been received. The MBKM concept is an implementation effort in facing the 4.0 industrial revolution era for Higher Education (PT). However, the situation since the implemented of mbkm curriculum is that there are still some students who do not understand the concept of mbkm itself, The MBKM policy is implemented in order to realize an autonomous and flexible learning process in higher education so that universities can design and implement innovative learning processes so that students can achieve learning outcomes including aspects of attitude, knowledge and skills optimally The study aimed to describe the empirical evidence regarding the students’ views of the effectiveness of MBKM policy implementation on learning outcomes. Qualitative research was approached in this research. The researcher took 13 students as research sample for quessionaire and 5 students for the interview by stratified random sampling. The result of questionnaire data showed that students at English Langunge Education Departement are ready to take part in the freedom to learn-independent campus (MBKM) program. It can be seen from the score percentage of each aspect of readiness. The score percentage of three aspects of readiness namely implementation, views, and obstacles were 70.25%, 76.50%, 76.92%, respectively, and all categorized good. In addition, the average percentage of the 3 indicators is 74.56%. They are also interested in participating in learning activities on freedom to learn-independent campus (MBKM) to get certificates, and experiences that will be useful in the future.