PERKEMBANGAN MADRASAH SUATU TINJAUAN HISTORIS-POLITIS

Abstract

Politically, educational position of madrasah (Islamic institution of learn­ing) has been relatively powerful although its function is complementary to school education. However, problematic complexities faced by the madrasah nowadays still needs a long political struggle to make madrasah capable of running its function well and also keeping itself as a rela­tively original native religious institution constructed by long historic struggle of the moslem community. It is necessary for both madrasah and government as its protector to be aware of not only for the benefit of madrasah itself and a feeling of regret if madrasah should be disap­peared, but also to guarantee the availability of educated and competi­tive human resources of the madrasah at both the national and interna­tional level. By using politico-historical perspective, this article tries to unpack and explicate what and how Madrasah as the religious-educa­tion institution in Indonesia.