Pesantren Communities Research Articles

Kontekstualisasi Teologi sebagai Basis Gerakan Ekologi

Pesantren as an indigenous Islamic based education institution in Indonesia has been always reflecting its social action by the religious values, including to their ecological activities. This research attempts to explore the role of pesantren on community empowerment, especially on how theologically and sociologically the movement created and perceived through society. The main question of this research is on how pesantren interpret various environmental problems through the eco-theological perspectives. This research represented by two pesantrens, modern and traditional. From theological landscape, they used Alqur’an as the primary source for the ecological movement and contextualizing it into the internal pesantren communities and to their surrounding communities. Pesantren Al-Amin, as the traditional one using transcendent relations as the basic theological framework, term like Kutub Alaulia and the conception of almsgiving used as its central point. Meanwhile, pesantren Daarul Ulum Lido put the basic values of the ecological movement into conception of Fiqh Albi’ah and conception of Caliphs to build student amorousness to environment by the narrative of sustainability and the future human generation.KeywordsPesantren, Ecology, Theology, and Contextualization

BUDAYA PESANTREN DI PULAU SERIBU MASJID, LOMBOK

Lombok, an island in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) province, known as island of a thousand is an area that is predominantly Muslim. The presence of Islam embraced by the majority of people in Lombok Island is not only characterized by a high public enthusiasm in building places of worship such as mosques and prayer room ( mus halla ), but also the presence of many pesantrens (Islamic boarding schools). It is reported that there are no less than 300 boarding schools spread across this small island. The existence of the boarding schools in Lombok is not merely as formal and non-formal institutions, they also play an important role in the dynamic of Islamic society. Pesantren has served: 1) as the transmission center of Islamic knowledge; 2) to maintain the continuity of Islamic tradition; and 3) as the center of the production of Islamic scholars.Traditions played by pesantren communities in Lombok looks so firmly, they preserve the identity of indigenous localites where they are located. this is what is typical and unique in studying pesantren and its dynamic in society. It is how the culture of pesantren in the island of thousands of mosques is which is the primary focus of this paper. Copyright (c) 2015 by KARSA. All right reserved DOI: 10.19105/karsa.v23i2.730

TRADITIONAL ISLAM IN JAVANESE SOCIETY: The Roles of Kyai and Pesantren in Preserving Islamic Tradition and Negotiating Modernity

The debate on the notion of identity of the traditional Islam in the Javanese society is often related to pesantren and kyai . These are the sub-cultural entities that have contributed to the shaping and building the identity of the Javanese Muslims. This paper explores the following key issues: (1) In what ways the collective identity of the Javanese Muslims is constructed in such a multicultural society? (2) What are the roles of the pesantren and kyai s in such a process. The paper argues that the pesantren communities perceive themselves as the defending power of traditional Islam, the fact that would imply logically that there is a sort of cultural confrontation between the traditionalists and the modernists. The paper will delve into this polarity in the context of the role of pesantren and kyai and how these sub-cultural entities negotiate both with the opposing sub-culture –the modernist that is- and with modernity.