Identitas Poskolonialisme Pesantren Modern

Abstract

In post-colonial, “modern” is interpreted as novelty, newedly technology, and it carries argument of perfection by colonists who came to the inlanders’ land it requires that the colonists to be changed, it also preaches that the west is the most perfect and represents a brightness of the future. Pesantren “modern” has brought a new identical that is puritanism and leave the moderate vision brought by pesantren salaf. However, there is a pesantren uses “modern” still preserves the old traditions of pesantren. Is a Al-Islam modern boarding school (pesantren) in the Nganjuk district, which shows that modern pesantren has a hybrid culture in the form of pesantren tradition that is maintained until today. Using the mimicry framework of Homi Bhabha this study brings the result to Modernization is not fully change pesantren-style in modern pesantren Al-Islam Nganjuk by ‘mimicry’ western modernization but not leaving the old tradition of salaf pesantren.