The independent learning curriculum is a new policy of the Ministry of Education and Culture which leads to the freedom of students to determine the direction of learning according to the interests, talents and needs of the students themselves. The application of the curriculum is inseparable from the strategies carried out by the teacher in the learning process. This study used a qualitative approach with data collection techniques namely observation, interviews and documentation. The results of the study, as for the PAI Teacher's Strategy in Implementing the Independent Learning Curriculum in Islamic Religious Education Learning at SMA Negeri 9 Malang, is that in implementing a curriculum, it is necessary to do the planning then the implementation and the last is the assessment. apart from that in implementing the independent learning curriculum, Islamic religious education teachers use the strategy used by PAI teachers is to use the problem basic learning and project basic learning learning methods in accordance with the concepts described by the independent curriculum namely giving freedom to students to solve their own problems so that they are more independent.

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