Honing Secular Skills

Two Islamic schools in Palembang and Lombok have embraced vocational training as a way to break the stigma that religious education puts students at a disadvantage.

After Friday prayer, six santri (Islamic boarding school students) walked about 50 meters from their school to a rubber plantation in Purwosari village, Banyuasin regency, Palembang. The students began searching for five-year-old plants, from which they hoped to ha