Eco-pesantren: Islamic Education in Forest Conservation Landscapes.

This article examines Islamic boarding schools (pesantren) as traditional Indonesian Islamic educational institutions, showing a new face as agents in nature conservation, especially forest conservation and considering Indonesia as a country with the best tropical forest land in the world and pesantren as indigenous Islamic educational institutions owned by Indonesia. This study finds pesantren as the landscape of a forest conservation movement started by the Al-Ittifaq pesantren and the Ecopesantren community. By focusing on the eco-centric paradigm where Islamic teachings teach the concept of forest conservation, this concept is rarely taught in traditional Islamic educational institutions such as pesantren. The results found that the eco-pesantren model was created by integrating religious education and ecological conceptions of dialectical qauliyah and kauniyah verses through the involvement of community alliances. Kyai's leadership behaviour is a key factor where all three (meditation, mediation, and reflection) are formed based on the two powers of authority in Weber's tripartite (legal-formal and transformational). This study contributes that Islamic education is a religious institution that teaches forest conservation movements through an eco-pesantren format. This research contributes that pesantren can synergise religion and forest conservation movements through the eco-pesantren format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]