Restoring the Social and Cultural Education Mission of Islamic Boarding Schools in the Flow of Modernization

Abstract

This article aims to reposition Islamic boarding schools as an Islamic educational institution that has the opportunity to make a great contribution to the formation of the identity of the Indonesian nation in the future. The discussion involves the analysis of philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, theology, and education. The data is collected textually and contextually. Islamic boarding schools are the first Islamic educational institutions (13th century) that focus on shaping Indonesian values, morals, and socio-cultural character. Some of the orders he inherited were in the form of Indonesian Islamic law, architecture, and puppetry. There are three basic characteristics that allow Islamic boarding schools to carry out this mission; 1) an integrated institutional system with the community; 2) an intensive learning system (dormitory); and 3) based on universal Islamic teachings that can be interpreted in three dimensions, namely mystical, ontological and functional. Strategically, the three can restore the mission of the Islamic boarding schools as a character builder, moral (moral), social (ummat), culture (adab), and religiosity of the Indonesian nation.