Deviation from the Norm

Several parents of students have complained to the West Java provincial legislature. They suspect their children have fallen victims to wrong education at the Pesantren Azzaitun.

December 11, 2001

A storm of protests has shaken the Pesantren Azzaitun, an Islamic boarding school in Indramayu, West Java. Here is the story: about six families of students of the most prestigious pesantren (Islamic boarding school) in Southeast Asia visited the office of the West Java Provincial Legislature (DPRD), last November 22. They complained to the legislators in Commission E that their children who were studying at Azzaitun have been behaving oddly late

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