Deradicalization of Pesantren Education in Indonesia

Abstract

This study seeks to uncover the structure of the practice of deradicalization of pesantren education carried out by Rabithah Ma'ahid Islamiyyah (RMI) in Indonesia. This study is critical because Indonesia's increasing radicalism encourages several institutions' intensification of deradicalization. RMI is an autonomous body of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), one of Indonesia's largest community organizations, with interest in eliminating radicalism. This research is field research with a qualitative approach and uses data collection by interview, observation, and documentation. The researchers analyzed the data using the structuration theory of Anthony Giddens. The practice of pesantren education deradicalization of RMI was constructed by three structures, namely the significance of the basic principles of RMI and the pesantren principles established by NU, dominance in the form of political and cultural facilities, and legitimacy in the form of norms and sanctions based on the basic principles of RMI and the tenets of Pesantren established by Nahdlatul Ulama.