Entrepreneurship Empowerment Strategy in Islamic Boarding Schools: Lesson from Indonesia

Abstract

Compared to formal educational institutions, Islamic boarding schools have their uniqueness and many advantages. Today's Islamic boarding schools provide learning about religious knowledge and entrepreneurship to equip and provide independence when returning to the community. This study aims to analyze the types of entrepreneurial empowerment of students and analyze the strategies of the Nurul Ulum Islamic Boarding School in Kemuningsari Lor Village, Panti District, Jember Regency in empowering santri entrepreneurship. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. While the data collection techniques used were observation, interviews, and documentation. The study results show that the types of entrepreneurial empowerment activities that are managed and developed by the pesantren are adapted to the conditions of the pesantren environment, infrastructure, and capabilities possessed by the pesantren. First, the generated businesses result from waste management (making cellphone bags, handkerchiefs, school bags, and brooches). Second, dress code (sewing) in clothes, headscarves, coats, and pants. Then, the entrepreneurial strategies implemented at the Nurul Ulum Islamic Boarding School include cost leadership, differentiation strategies, and focus strategies. This research contributes in-depth knowledge that Islamic boarding schools play an essential role in entrepreneurship in providing new jobs and poverty alleviation and contributing to the country's economic development.

Optimizing the Economic Independence of Sharia-Based Islamic Boarding Schools

“…Indicators of pesantren are said to have independence in the economy are: When the results of the business unit have a positive contribution on an ongoing basis to the learning and operational activities of Pesantren so that the operation of the pesantren does not depend on the Syariah student or donations from other parties (Naimah et al, 2020). Some business clusters that can be applied as Islamic boarding school business units are SME Cooperatives and Sharia Economics, Agribusiness, agriculture, animal husbandry, Halal Food and Beverage Cluster, Muslim Fashion Cluster, Halal Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics Cluster, Halal Media and Recreation Cluster, Renewable energy (Indonesian Ministry of National Development Planning, 2019).…”

“…The independence of Pesantren can be seen through the process of establishing the government (Mahdi Adnan, 2013). This shows that pesantren are independent institutions that contribute significantly to the progress of the nation (Naimah et al, 2020). However, the rapid development of the times requires pesantren to continue to innovate and carry out developments, especially in the business field to be able to survive and compete in facing the challenges of the global world.…”

The Development of Business Incubators in Universities in Building Business Start-Ups: Systematic Literature Review (SLR)

“…Entrepreneurial learning means a pattern that is used as a basic guideline in the form of global policy through stages directed at carrying out ideal interactions between managers of educational institutions, educators and students, which are planned and organized in the mechanism of education management and contain factors for designing activities to study entrepreneurship (Fatimah et al, 2020;Naimah et al, 2020). Implementing these learners can be carried out in educational institutions both in formal and non-formal education.…”

Pesantren Entrepreneurship: Harmonization of the Theories of Kasb Asy’ariyah and Locus of Control on Strengthening Santripreneur

“…Also, pesantren has significantly contributed to the progress of Indonesia (Naimah, 2020) and were able to bring positive change to society (Warsah, 2020). There was also a view that pesantren are learning centers for independent students and religious knowledge to produce ulama, community leaders, and Islamic preachers with a proper life, although some other generations had unstructured career paths (Idham, 2016;Isbah, 2020;Kholid, 2011;Sani, 2011).…”

“…Pesantren must erode doubts about the abilities possessed by students and the level of awareness that these abilities can be raised only with effort, whether it is the self-effort or external effort (Idham, 2016). Adoption of the concept of entrepreneurship in pesantren plays a role in increasing the potential of students (Naimah et al, 2020).…”