Fostering Students' Creativity Through Hinduism Education-Based Bincang Esaba Program

SMP Negeri 1 Bangli has many types of extracurricular activities. These extracurricular activities’ implementation can support achieving one of the school’s objectives. The implementation of extra activities is carried out after intra-curricular activities are carried out with the determining the schedule submitted to the agreement of each extracurricular manager with its members. One of them is journalism extracurriculars. A mutual agreement as a contract for the activities implementation is determined together at the beginning of the school year before the activities begin. A detailed work program is a reference for the wheels of activity. Activities packed with various activities are the main attraction for students’ participation. This extracurricular activity has the main objective of fostering students’ competence in the field of journalism through writing and speaking activities. Specifically, this study emphasized the implementation of extracurricular activities in fostering students’ potential for linguistic-verbal competence through various group-based speaking activities. Bincang Esaba’ was an activity that focused on verbal activities and character building of journalism extracurricular members. This study used a qualitative descriptive approach. Conclusions were drawn from analyzing the various interrelationships of participants with multi-faceted, interactive strategies, such as direct observation, participatory observation, in-depth interviews, documents, and complementary techniques, such as photographs, recordings, and others. The study concluded that implementing journalism extracurricular activities at SMP Negeri 1 Bangli ran well according to the work program that had been prepared, and ‘Bincang Esaba’ could foster the linguistic-verbal intelligence of students who were its members.