The Use of Entrepreneurship Education in Community Empowerment at Lintangsongo Islamic Boarding School of Yogyakarta

Abstract

This paper discusses entrepreneurship education at Lintang Songo Islamic Boarding School which is taught to students and the surrounding community. Islamic boarding schools are the oldest educational institutions with unique and distinctive characteristics in Indonesia. It came into existence hundreds of years ago. According to historical records, the first Islamic boarding school in Indonesia was founded by Syeh Maulana Malik Ibrahim in 1399 AD to spread Islam on Java. Therefore, it has become a part of Indonesian education for a long time. Lintang Songo is one of such Islamic Boarding Schools that aims at surviving with consistency in carrying out its social functions. Furthermore, the uniqueness of its pesantren's activities and programs is associated with entrepreneurship education for students and society. This paper, therefore, discusses entrepreneurship education to improve the economy of students and society. This field research uses qualitative methods in analyzing data. Meanwhile, data obtained by observation, documentation and interviews. The informants of this study consisted of 12 people, from the head of the LintangSongo Islamic Boarding School, the teachers, students and the community. Several questions were asked to informants, such as what economic empowerment program was developed at LintangSongo Islamic Boarding School, why LintangSongo Islamic Boarding School developed economic empowerment education. The answers to these questions are then analyzed using qualitative methods.The results showed that LintangSongo Islamic Boarding School succeeded in economic empowering of its students and local communities with entrepreneurship education, which is taught as the curriculum of LintangSongo Islamic boarding school. Economic empowerment conducted by LintangSongo Islamic Boarding School for its students and community is agricultural empowerment, plantations, animal husbandry, forestry, fisheries, home industry, food, and convection.