Exposure At Lintang Songo Islamic Boarding School
Interfaith relation
become an interesting topic to discuss because it relates to the origin and
history, the dynamics of acculturation process with local cultures, the records
of both harmony and conflict cases also 'exploitation' of religion for certain
interests. However, the enrichment to have knowledge and experience of
interaction among religions remains important, especially for students as the educated
community who will be the mobilizing actors for society in their region and the
ones who will build awareness about Indonesia's diversity.
This thought encouraged
Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta through a series of Multiculture and Inter-religion
Dialogue Training at Wisma Pojok Indah, 6-8 March 2020 to enrich students
coming from various regions and now studying in Yogyakarta, with knowledge and
experience through exposures to various places of worship and dialogue with
religious leaders. One of them was Lintang Songo Islamic Boarding School in
Piyungan, Bantul, with a group consisting of Topik Hidayatullah, Maritjie
Kailey, Rivaldo, Aver Gulo, Lenora Nada, Yonatan Prisitiaji, Natra Marten, Rudi
Malo, Sukaningtyas, Wilton and Trustha. The group had a dialogue with the
caregiver and students, and the group also observed their lives. H. Drs. Heri
Kuswanto, M.Si is the founder and caregiver of Islamic boarding school which
was established in 2006 under a name Islamic Study Center (ISC) Aswaja Lintang
Songo, with a hope to be an Islamic
educational institution with the vision of creating santri (students) who have
quality, independence and useful life for the community, santris who have deep
Islam understanding, life skills for independent life and social care in
community.
Currently there are
seventies santri from various regions and ethnics, from the age of children to
adults, from pre-school to college students. As santri, they go to school and
study in pesantren or outside, studying tauhid, fiqh, morals, tarikh, Quran and
other books, and explore life skills such as doing agriculture, animal
husbandry, fisheries, culture arts and soap production. This boarding school
also applies a concept of 'home-garden' which cultivates land for rice, chili,
vegetables, orange, guava and mango, as well as raising livestock such as
ducks, turkeys, quails, rabbits and fish ponds. Then operating a cafe as
'fund-raising' as well as a place of entrepreneurial learning from food
processing and table manners.
"We are open to
various parties both domestic and abroad, become partners in interfaith
dialogue about religious knowledge and life skills here. Hopefully after
studying here, the santris have basic knowledge and religion, they are
economically independent when they get married because of entrepreneurial
skills that they learned here,"
said Heri Kuswanto.
This visit became a new
experience about a holistic human development process since the spiritual side,
independence of life and connectedness with nature. Now, we no longer discuss about
which religion is the most correct, but the relationship with God, and it
appears in relationship among humans and humans with nature. We should learn to
treat others and use nature well as our gratitude to God, the Creator. (WIL).
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