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View all search resultsEducators have seen and thus responded to increasing demand for modern and Islamic education, from elementary school to high school, amid a rising level of piety among educated middle-class Muslims in Indonesia.
A series of terrorist acts has rocked Indonesia in the past week. Starting from a clash in a detention centre at the Police Mobile Brigade headquarters in Depok, West Java, last week, attackers then bombed three churches in Surabaya, East Java, last Sunday, followed by another terrorist bombing at Surabaya Police Headquarters. Dozens were killed and wounded.
Shamsi Ali, an Indonesian national and respected Muslim scholar who lives in New York, has started an online crowdfunding campaign to build the first ever Indonesian pesantren, or Islamic boarding school, in the United States.
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