摘要：Indonesian Buddhist religious teachers face various problems related to thelimitation of learning infrastructure and the availability teacher training programthat affects their self-confidence. This research aims to analyse the factors and theindicators of self-confidence of Buddhist religious teachers as the basis for thedevelopment of teacher self-confidence and professionalism. The proposedresearch questions are about (1) what are the factors as well as the indicators of theself-confidence of the Buddhist religious teachers in performing their tasks and (2)how strong are its indicators affecting teachers’ self-confidence? The researchparticipants were 153 Buddhist religious teachers who teach at formal schools. Theresults of the research show that factors affecting the self-confidence of Buddhistreligious teachers in Indonesia are classroom environment and learning materialand also teachers’ working time and additional tasks. The four dominant indicatorsof the classroom environment and learning material are teachers’ perceptiontoward the availability of learning material, classroom availability, the quality oflearning the infrastructure, and teachers’ perception toward infrastructure policy.The four dominant indicators of teachers’ working time and additional tasks areteachers’ perception regarding a load of working time, the load of teachers’working time, teachers’ perception regarding a load of their additional tasks, andthe load of teachers’ additional tasks.
关键词：self;confidence; Buddhist teachers; classroom environment; teachers’;working time; teachers
