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This study will focus on the study religion education in Indonesian high school.Religion education in Indonesia has become compulsary subject that introduced innational curriculum policy. the basic idea of religion education has purposes to engageand develop moral and “spirituality to God”. The concept of religion education inIndonesia become change since in the post reform era 1999. This situation happenedwhen religion education more emphasizes in the level of religious ritual and practiceat school system. Indonesian schools have change into more religious schools ratherthan scientific. Most activities developed by school program from vision and mision,school activities are accomodated the ideas of agamis “religious terminology” takenfrom majority religion in Indonesia. The purposes of this study is to cultivate andexplore the impact of religion education for moral piety and spirituality for senior highschool students. This study would like to answers some critical issues as follows, howyoung generation imagined their religious values in public life? How do they use their
54 | Procceding The Theology International Conference 2023 – Universitas Sanata Dharmareligious values to express moral piety in public life? Does religion education canchange their spirituality and religiousity in public life? This study will have conductedthrough interview, observation, and literature studies. In this article, thetransformation and change on religion education in Indonesia at the level ofcurriculum and methods of teaching is mentioned, and then the contestation of moralvalues and spirituality amongt young generations will be described.

“religion education”, “moral”, “values”, “spirituality”.