#pesantren

Collection of pesantren news, found 235 news.

Community-based vocational training centers need to be improved: VP

Indonesian Vice President Ma'ruf Amin has called for improving the quality of Community-based Vocational Training ...

One of four wanted terror suspects detained in Jakarta

Indonesian police's special counter-terrorism detachment, Densus 88, has apprehended one of four most-wanted terror ...

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Elderly learn about religion at Raden Rahmat Islamic Boarding School

Islamic boarding schools are by and large synonymous with students constituting school-age children or ...

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Pesantren emerge as lynchpin of economic empowerment

Islamic boarding schools, or pesantren, have not only managed to survive in Indonesia since colonial times, but have ...

Pesantren should be open to partnering for economic development: Amin

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin has appealed to Islamic boarding schools (pesantren) to be open to partnering with ...

View COVID-19 pandemic as chance to bolster state foundation: minister

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati perceives the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to fortify the country's ...

Islamic economics pivotal to advanced Indonesia vision: BI

Deputy Governor of Bank Indonesia (BI), Sugeng, said Islamic economics and finance will play a significant role in ...

Indonesia's sharia financial industry is a sleeping giant: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) affirmed that the government will endeavor to drive development of the domestic sharia ...

BNPT bolsters cooperation in deradicalization with Pesantren

Head of the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) Boy Rafli Amar paid a visit to several Islamic boarding schools ...

Pesantren playing significant role in national development: Mulyani

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has said Indonesia’s 28,194 pesantren (Islamic boarding schools), which ...

Minister forewarns boarding schools about preventing COVID-19 clusters

Pesantren, or Islamic boarding schools, should avert possibilities of becoming COVID-19 clusters by raising awareness ...

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin initiates National Cash Waqf Movement

Vice President KH Ma'ruf Amin proposed the National Cash Waqf Movement (GNWT) to increase public participation in ...

Govt allotted Rp2.6 trillion for pesantren economic recovery program

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati drew attention to the government's allocation of Rp2.6 trillion for Islamic ...

Santri Day commemoration expected to offer momentum to maintain unity

House of Representatives’ Speaker Puan Maharani pinned high hopes on the commemoration of Santri Day offering the ...

Pesantren portray Indonesia's diversity: MPR deputy chairman

Deputy Chairman of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), Syarief Hasan, assessed that Pesantren, or Islamic ...