MAN 2 Kulonprogo, which is also known as MANDAKU, is an Islamic senior high school (MA) in Yogyakarta which provides life skill programs for the students. It becomes the most favorite because most surrounding students are coming from lower middle class who mostly do not pursue their study into university. With other 82 MA throughout Indonesia, the madrasah has conducted the program since 1998 with the full support of MoRA and UNDP. When some MAs quitted the program because the ministry stopped the final support to the program, MANDAKU could survive the program without financial support of the MoRA. Even, due to the school’s good achievement, MANDAKU is given a chance to become the only MAKN (State Vocational Madrasah Aliyah) in Yogyakarta Province, or one of the only three MAKN in Indonesia. Based on qualitative research conducted in 2021, it is found that MANDAKU has special program which becomes the best strategy. The program is the MAN de Motefa. It is created by the vocational teachers of MANDAKU. It consists of four components: block schedule system, job sheet, product oriented, and working attitudes. The essence of this strategy is combining akhlaqul karimah (Islamic values which become a characteristic of madrasah) with teaching factory in the school. Even by this program, MANDAKU became the representative of the MoRA in National Innovative Public Services Competition held by Ministry of in 2020. In this article, what motefa is and how it works in MANDAKU will be described.