Pesantren As Indonesian Traditional Education In Preparing The Alumni To Have The Twenty-First Century Skills Study In Faculty Of Islamic Studies, Universitas Islam Indonesia

Abstract

Pesantren is an Indonesian traditional education institution based on Islamic values or often called traditional pesantren. It initially focuses on learning that is only limited to morality and politeness values, which make pesantren considered backward in the academic side and science by Indonesian society. However, at the beginning of the 20th century, there was a term 'modern' pesantren which combined moral, academic and scientific values as the learning focus, such as communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity and innovative skills that make its graduates ready to face twenty-first-century challenges. This paper tries to portray on how pesantren, both traditional and modern pesantren, prepares and navigates their students to master the twenty-first-century skills namely communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity to tackle future challenges. The researchers conducted interviews with nine students of Faculty of Islamic Studies, Universitas Islam Indonesia who previously spent their high school years in either traditional or modern pesantren. We are finding that pesantren although the types, traditional and modern will strive the world's dynamic, since pesantren's core values have successfully shaped attitudes and disciplines of it is alumni, and the involvement in religious teaching in pesantren is essential and undebatable because it is the foundation of all knowledge taught. This research will provide valuable information regarding pesantren responding to modernity as Islamic education is supposed to consider the improvement of the learning process within preparing it is alumni to face the twenty-first-century challenges without forgetting it is identity.