The article investigates how community-based education as developed by Muhammadiyah constructs its curriculum, whether it is merely governmentally-standardized or, more than that, enriched with its own local values. It seems interesting to portray due to the political tendency of the ruling government in making sure that all educational practices including managed by private sectors, politically fitted into the government existing educational policy. The Muhammadiyah’s educational decision may show itself sometimes to be in line with and, in another time, to be different from the government policy. This article especially addresses Religious Education (RE) curriculum within Muhammadiyah, which to some extent enriches local value uniqueness over the government curriculum policy. To study this case, the article makes full use of historical, documentary and interview sources of shaping the standpoint of how the Muhammadiyah’s RE curriculum design seems different and to enrich what the government has decided. The result of the study shows that as a non-governmental organization, Muhammadiyah decides to take the existing RE curriculum of the government with taking account of the enrichment of local or Muslims’ values, competency and content standards endorsed by Muhammadiyah’s state of mind. Besides, by considering the cases of the School-Based Curriculum started from 2006 and the 2013 Curriculum, Muhammadiyah’s initiatives not only follow the existing government policy but also try to look for the other possible curriculum enrichment. Thus, politically speaking, Muhammadiyah education seems to combine both the government political decision and the local values of Muhammadiyah itself.