Religion Intensifying, Independence And Useful Life At Lintang Songo Islamic Boarding School
Friday, 13 March 2020by adminstube
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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