Pembangunan merupakan istilah yang dikemukakan oleh berbagai pihak sebagai upaya mencapai perubahan masyarakat ke arah kehidupan yang lebih baik. Pembangunan kerap kali dilaksanakan secara multidimensional, dalam arti meliputi berbagai dimensi kehidupan [ekonomi, sosial, pendidikan, politik, kesehatan, dan sebagainya], meski keseluruhan bermuara pada upaya menuju perbaikan, kemajuan dan kesejah…
Kemajuan Jepang yang cepat dan pesat disebabkan keberhasilan bangsa Jepang mengelola tiga kecerdasan bangsa, yaitu mengembangkan kecerdasan intelektual [develop the IQ], menumbuhkan kecerdasan emosional [growth the EQ], dan menanamkan kecerdasan spiritual [internalisation the SQ]. Pengembangan kecerdasan intelektual bangsa Jepang dilakukan melalui sistem pendidikan yang konsisten dan bermutu. P…
Peningkatan mutu pendidikan pada hakikatnya merupakan tugas konstitusional dalam rangka mencerdaskan kehidupan bangsa Indonesia. Untuk mewujudkan hal itu, perlu didukung dengan kebijakan dan program yang realistik, kontribusi pemikiran yang konstruktif, dan advokasi secara proaktif dan bersama-sama dengan seluruh komponen bangsa. Mutu pendidikan selain bisa dijustifikasi keberhasilannya dengan …
This article proposes that Islamic Jurisprudence [ushul a fiqh], as the methodology of classical Islamic law, was laden with male bias. This is due to formulators of ushul al fiqh who are men therefore there must be subjectivity and interest of men when understanding the text [both the Qur'an and the Sunnah] and when conducting istinbath al ahkam from the text a well as because of the absence o…
This article views popular themes discussed by Muslim politicians, namely democracy and theocracy. While democracy builds governmental system based on public sovereignty, theocracy is based on the sovereignty of God. We often hear ideas of democracy used in several contexts, for example, people democracy, popular democracy, and guided democracy. Moreover, in Indonesia, the term of Demokrasi Pan…
Charles J Adams has been widely known as a scholar of religious methodology [Islam in Particular]. He tries as he can to explain Islam as it is. However, sometimes he seems hesitant and is influenced by others' views so that the objectivity of this views is often unclear. Therefore it is appropriate if he is regarded or mybe misunderstood as a reductionist thinker, although he himself tried not…
In the hierarchy of traditional society, Kiai is considered to belong to both social and religious elite. He therefore holds an important role in his society. However, with the expansion of modernity that gives birth to a progressive and dynamic change in our society, Kiai is not regarded any more as the sole agent of social chane. His function is becoming less and limited vis -a-vis modernity.…
Indonesia, with its diverse social, cultural and geographical variety, is one of the biggest multicultural societies in the world. This diversity-when-misused-can cause many problems such as corruption, collusion, nepotism, poverty, violence, damage to environment, separatism, and human right violation. Vis a vis this, multicultural education suggests that diversity of ethnicity, culture, langu…
Classical Balaghah has been developed theoretically since the era of B. Mu'taz and culminated in the development in the era of al Qahir al Jurjani. But since then, if has ceased to improve. In the modern era, this science has only been applied, annotated, redefined and classified. As a consequence, Balaghah turned out to be both dry ans static, incapable of further improvement and adaption to n…
Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh kenyataan di lapangan bahwa masih banyak petugas perpustakaan yang belum menjadi pejabat fungsional pustakawan. Jika tunjangan fungsional pustakawan dan batas usia pensiun yang lebih tinggi dianggap bernilai lebih, tentu saja para petugas perpustakaan akan termotivasi untuk menjadi pustakawan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah tunjangan fungsi…