The Other Side of Pesantren
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
PESANTREN and terrorism. These two words were often linked when terrorist acts began spreading in Indonesia. This is understandable, given that most of the perpetrators and suspects of those crimes were indeed graduates of these boarding schools.
“The extraordinary stigmatization of boarding schools at this time has become a form of hatred against Islam,” said Choirul Fuad Yusuf, Director of Religious Education & Islamic Boarding Schools at
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