European Centre for Research Training and Development UK
Abstract
Islamic education in Indonesia has been going on since the introducing of
Islam in Indonesia starting with informal education that personal relationships between
broadcasters of Islamic preachers who came to Indonesia with the surrounding community.
A relationship that led to the initial recognition of the Islamic community, then began
appearing of Islamic education in non-formal centers such as in the mosque. In this place
was taken away in non-formal education, diverse learners are still a child and there are also
adults. Once the need for education among the Muslim community, they begin to appear
formal educational institutions such as schools, Islamic schools and madrasah as well as
Islamic universities. Islamic education experience its dynamics in terms of both quantitative
and qualitative in the light of the qualitative. Qualitative terms of Islamic education
experienced rapid growth throughout Indonesia with thousands of Islamic boarding schools
(pesantren), schools and madrasah. In view of the qualitative angle of Islamic education,
has evolved from traditional education appears to be a modern Islamic education is able to
provide its response to the progress of the times and was able to give contribution to the
development of the nation, and the state. On the relation with this, the Islamic education in
Indonesia has a very important position and strategic, because that is the Law of National
Education System that Islamic education occupies a position as a sub-system of the National
Education System
