ABSTRACT

Purpose: To elaborate the scientific genealogy and transformation of four Modern Pesantrens (MP) in Indonesia in the Contemporary Era, namely MP Assa'adah, Banten, MP Al-Irsyad, Semarang, MP Tazakka, Batang, Central Java and MP Muhammadiyah Boarding School Al-Mukhtar, Jember, East Java. Methodology: The study is qualitative, both library and field researches, including searching primary and secondary sources, observing to locations of the four MP, interviewing some MP leaders and analyzing data. Participants consist of the leaders, teachers, and officers of the four MP. They were selected through purposive sampling from the four of MP as a representative sample, whose closely know the four MP. Findings: The results of this study demonstrate that, first, the four MP scientific genealogy includes teacher-student relationships, scientific and institutional networks. Second, although the four MP are oriented towards MP of Gontor, they have undergone a different process of transformation, that take form of adaptation, modification, and innovation in the education system. Third, changes in educational direction, ideological contestation, social class fragmentation of santri (students), and alterations in scientific genealogy are influenced by the development of Islamic education in the four MP. Implication for Research and Practice: These findings impact on the importance of MP to modifying and innovating diverse approaches on anticipating changes in society and education in order to remains the central of contemporary Islamic education in Indonesia. Future studies of MP could be addressed to analysing the social-community networking among MP in order to empowering educational system, curriculum, as well as alumni.