Demokrasi merupakan konsepsi politik yang selalu ramai dibicarakan orang, karenanya, demokrasi sudah menjadi bagian integral dan tidak terpisahkan dari kehidupan modern sekarang ini. Semua orang dari berbagai negara mengatakan bahwa negaranya adalah negara demokrasi. Padahal, Hamid Enayat telah menegaskan tidak ada bentuk pemerintahan yang dapat disebut demokratis dengan pengertian yang kita pa…
Martin used a keyword data fields" as a basis on his research which represents his constructive criticism to Islamic studies. Martin's thought was constructed on two groups of data fields
The emergence of top schools that have the orientation as a center of excellence" is a necessity. But today the presence of excellent schools actually facing sharp criticism from public or educational experts
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui batas skor kelulusan [cut score] yang tepat bagi peserta Ujian Nasional [UN]. Seperti kita ketahui bahwa sampai saat ini penentuan kelulusan pada Ujian Nasional ditentukan melalui judgement dan merupakan kebijakan yang dikeluarkan oleh pemerintah tanpa memperhatikan soal-soal yang ada pada paket-paket UN dan tanpa melibatkan tenaga-tenaga ahli [seperti …
Tujuan penelitian ini dimaksudkan untuk mempelajari pengaruh pembelajaran dengan pendekatan problem posing terhadap hasil belajar matematika. Penelitian dilakukan di MTs Negeri 22 kampus B Munjul Jakarta Timur tahun pelajaran 2005/2006 dengan menggunakan metode eksperimen. Sampel penelitian sebanyak 90 siswa kelas VII yang dipilih dengan teknik cluster random sampling. Data dikumpulkan dengan m…
Conventionally speaking, the current Muslim law of inheritance is habitually considered as a sufficient and final form of legal formula that reflects the true spirit of Islamic Law Ondained by God. The majority of Muslims currently are of belief that the ulama of the first generation have passed down to us the most complete and sophisticated set of law based on their acute interpretation of the…
Tujuan penulisan ini dimaksudkan untuk mengetahui pelaksanaan program lesson study, khususnya dalam hal: 1)Pelaksanaan program lesson study; 2)Peran kepala sekolah dan kepala dinas pendidikan dalam pelaksanaan program lesson study; dan 3)Dampak pelaksanaan program lesson study. Temuan analisis ini menunjukkan bahwa: 1)Program lesson study dapat dilaksanakan karena adanya dukungan kerja sama ant…
Al Qur'an is interpreted in different ways and approaches. Progressive Muslims, for instance, pay attention to three themes, namely social justice, gender equality, and pruralism. They propose their arguments based on the fundamental understading from [al Hijr/15:29 Sad/38:71, and an Nahl/16:90], namely: 1)every human being has the same intrinsic glory, 2)the main mission of human presence in t…
Polytheism and unjust social power haven been conceptually rejected by the Qur'an. Unfortunattely, its religious message is not properly understood by many Moslem scholars. They interpret it to legimate their own interests which are sometimes contradictory to the spirit of the Qur'an. This phenomenon happens in South Africa. Farid Esack, a Muslim intellectual in this region, proposes to read th…
One of controversial conclusions of the orientalists' study on the hadis is that the authenticity of the hadis is actually not as high as the Muslims believed so far, because none of the traditions of the Prophet is truly authentic from the Prophet, especially the tradition relating to fiqh. The conclusion was in turn confirmed that it is very difficult to trust the hadis literature as a whole …