The Death of a Santri
Albar Mahdi, a student at the Pondok Modern Darussalam Gontor Islamic boarding school, died after being beaten and kicked by his seniors. The incident is the result of a culture of violence within Islamic boarding schools.
Riky Ferdianto
September 19, 2022
SITI Soimah wailed when the ambulance carrying the body of her eldest son, 17-year-old Albar Mahdi, arrived on Tuesday, August 23. The resident of Sei Selayur, Kalidoni Subdistrict, Palembang, South Sumatra, asked officers to open the casket. She wanted to examine Albar’s body, which had traveled by land from Pondok Modern Darussalam Gontor, an Islamic boarding school in Ponorogo, East Java.
Soimah, 45, and her husband Rusdi, 48, turn
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