EVOLUTION AND ORIENTATION OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION IN INDONESIA AND MALAYSIA

Ali Mas’ud; Ah. Zakki Fuad; Achmad Zaini

doi:10.15642/JIIS.2019.13.1.21-49

EVOLUTION AND ORIENTATION OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION IN INDONESIA AND MALAYSIA

Ali Mas’ud, Ah. Zakki Fuad, Achmad Zaini

Abstract

Islamic education in Indonesia and Malaysia stemmed from the very same origin, pondok pesantren. However, they went different ways due to several drives. As madrasah transformed some forms of pondok pesantren, colonial and political context has shaped Islamic education in Indonesia and Malaysia. In Indonesia, education is administered in a separate ministry and finally formed a curriculum that enable graduates to endeavor not only in religious fields but also in all walks of life. Whereas Ministry of Malaysian Education regulate both national education and religious education all students in Indonesia and Malaysia, though, regardless of their schools, must study religion with different gradation. While Islamic instruction in Indonesian schools is supplied only to shape religious character, Malaysian schools strive to create an integration between Islamic and non-Islamic sciences. Pondok pesantrens too, have developed to a degree that differing features do occur, although they share several resemblances. Their private natures enable pondok pesantrens to improvise their education with different outcome and shape, but remain a deeply rooted in Islamic education in both countries.

Keywords

Islamic education; Indonesia; Malaysia; history

Full Text:

PDF

References

Books and Articles

Ahid, Nur. “Problem Pengelolaan Madrasah Aliyah dan Solusinya”. Islamica. 4, 2 (March 2010).

Asrori, Achmad. “Contemporary Religious Education Model On The Challenge of Indonesian Multiculturalism”. Journal of Indonesian Islam. 10, 2 (December 2016).

Azra, Hidayatullah. “Islamic Education in Indonesia”. Holger Daun and Reza Arjmand (eds). Handbook of Islamic Education. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG: 2018.

Castle, Lance, “Notes on the Islamic School at Gontor”. Indonesia. 1, 1 (1966).

Fathil, Fauziah and Wiwin Oktasari. “Religious Education and Containment of Radical Elements: The Case of Pondok Schools in Malaysia”. International Journal of Islamic and Civilizational Studies. 1, 10 (2017): pp. 60-70.

Ghozali, Abbas, et al. Madrasah Education Financing in Indonesia. Jakarta: ACDP, 2013.

Habibi, Ibnu. “Muhammadiyah Boarding School (MBS) Sebagai Alternatif Model Pesantren (Potret Pendidikan Islam di Era Kontemporer)”. Proceedings of 1st Annual Conference for Muslim Scholars. Surabaya: Kopertais Wilayah IV Surabaya, 2017.

Hamid, Ahmad Fauzi Abdul. “Islamic Education in Malaysia”. Holger Daun and Reza Arjmand (eds). Handbook of Islamic Education. (Cham: Springer International Publishing AG: 2018).

Hasan, Noorhaidi. “The Salafi Madrasas of Indonesia”. Farish A. Noor, Yoginder Sikand and Martin van Bruinessen (eds). The Madrasa in Asia: Political Activism and Transnational Linkages. (Amsterdam: ISIM/Amsterdam University Press, 2008).

Hashim, Rosnani, “The reformation of Muslim education In Malaysia: ensuring relevance and overcoming challenges”. International Symposium of Imam-Hatip (Vocational Religious) Schools in their Centennial Anniversary. Istanbul, Turkey: November 23-25th 2013.

Hashim, Rosnani, Suhailah Hussien and Juhasni Adila Juperi. “The Hikmah (Wisdom) Program: A philosophical inquiry for the teaching of Islamic education in Malaysia”. Sa’eda Buang and Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew (eds). Muslim Education in the 21st Century: Asian perspectives. Oxon: Routledge, 2014.

Ichwan, Moch Nur. “Towards a Puritanical Moderate Islam: The Majelis Ulama, Indonesia and the Politics of Religious Orthodoxy”. Contemporary Developments in Indonesian Islam Explaining the ‘Conservative Turn’. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2013.

Ismail, Solahuddin. “Institusi Tahfiz di Malaysia: Prospek dan Cabaran”. Conference Paper Simposium Tahfiz al-Quran Peringkat Antarabangsa, At Institut Latiham Islam Malaysia (ILIM) Bangi Selangor, November 2016.

Kelabora, Lambert. “Religious Instruction Policy in Indonesia”. Asian Survey. 16, 3 (March 1976).

Kosim, Mohammad. “Madrasah di Indonesia (Pertumbuhan dan Perkembangan)”. Tadris. 2, 1 (2007).

Kraince, Richard G. “Reforming Islamic Education in Malaysia: Doctrine or Dialogue?”. Robert W. Hefner (ed). Making modern Muslims : the politics of Islamic education in Southeast Asia. Hawai’i: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009).

Kushimoto, Hiroko. “Islam and Modern School Education in Journal Pengasuh: Review of the Kaum Muda - Kaum Tua Dichotomy”. Studia Islamika. 19, 2 (2012): pp. 207-250.

Maarif, Nurul H., Gamal Ferdhi and A. Suaedi. “Memecah Kebekuan Regenerasi Ulama”. Gatra, 12 February 2006.

Nurochim. “Sekolah Berbasis Pesantren Sebagai Salah Satu Model Pendidikan Islam Dalam Konsepsi Perubahan Sosial”. Al-Tahrir. 16, 1 (May 2016): pp. 80-85.

Othman, Nooraini and Khairul Azmi Mohamad. “Eclectic Model in the Malaysian Education System”. International Education Studies. 4, 4 (November 2011).

Siddik, Achmad. Khittah Nahdliyah. Surabaya: Khalista, 2005.

Steenbrink, Karel E. Pesantren Madrasah Sekolah: Pendidikan Islam dalam Kurun Moderen. Jakarta: LP3ES, 1986.

Suhid, Asmawati. “Strengthening and Transformation of the Islamic Education System in Malaysia”. Tarbiya: Journal Of Education In Muslim Society. 5 1 (June 2018).

Sukarno, Makmuri. “Mengembangkan Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Insan Cendekia Untuk Menjawab Tantangan Modernisasi, Demokratisasi Dan Globalisasi”. Jurnal Kependudukan Indonesia. 9, 2 (Desember 2014).

Tolchah, Moch. “The Political Dimension Of Indonesian Islamic Education In The Post-1998 Reform Period”. Journal of Indonesian Islam, 8, 2 (2014): pp. 284-298

van Bruinessen, Martin. “Traditionalist and Islamist Pesantrens in Contemporary Indonesia”. Farish A. Noor, Yoginder Sikand and Martin van Bruinessen (eds). The Madrasa in Asia: Political Activism and Transnational Linkages. Amsterdam: ISIM/Ams-terdam University Press, 2008).

van Bruinessen, Martin. “Pesantren and kitab kuning: Continuity and change in a tradition of religious learning”. Wolfgang Marschall (ed.). Texts from the islands: Oral and written traditions of Indonesia and the Malay world [Ethnologica Bernensia, 4]. Berne: The University of Berne Institute of Ethnology, 1994.

Zain, Mat F, WK Mujani and IA Bakar. “The Islamic education and the 'j-QAF' program in Malaysia”. Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences. 6, 3, Special Issue 2 (2012).

Internet Sources

Info Peminatan (Jurusan), official website of MAN 1 Jakarta, http://www.man1.sch.id/ppdb2019/info.php

Leong, Trinna, 'Private Islamic schools mushrooming in Malaysia,' The Strait Times, https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/private-islamic-schools-mushrooming-in-malaysia, acessed on 4 September 2018.

Ministry OF Religious Affairs Republic of Indonesia–Directorate general of Islamic Education, Direktorat Pendidikan Tinggi Keagamaan Islam, Seleksi Beasiswa dan Non-Beasiswa S1 Peguruan Tinggi Luar Negeri Timur Tengah (Mesir, Maroko, Sudan dan Libanon), http://diktis.kemenag.go.id/timteng12/017/, accessed on 6 May 2019.

New pride for sekolah pondok, The Star Online, Retrieved from https://www.thestar.com.my/news/education/2013/11/10/new-pride-for-sekolah-pondok, accessed on 2 May 2018.

NU online. “Inilah 13 Ma‘had Aly yang Diresmikan oleh Menteri Agama”. https://www.nu.or.id/post/read/68634/inilah-13-mahad-aly-yang-diresmikan-oleh-menteri-agama, 30 May 2016.

Rochmat, Muchlishon. “Dua Alasan Pendidikan Agama Tetap Diajarkan di Sekolah”. NU Online. https://www.nu.or.id/-post/read/83065/dua-alasan-pendidikan-agama-tetap-diajarkan-di-sekolah, accessed on 1 September 2018.

Tayeb, Azmel. “The ups and downs of Islamic education in Malaysia”. New Mandala. www.newmandala.org/the-ups-and-downs-of-islamic-education-in-malaysia/, accessed on 6 June 2018.

The Straits Times. “PM Mahathir to overhaul Malaysia’s schools, saying too much focus on Islamic studies now”. https://-www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/pm-mahathir-to-overhaul-malaysias-schools-saying-too-much-focus-on-islam-studies-now, 22 December 2018.

DOI: 10.15642/JIIS.2019.13.1.21-49