The Environmental Conservation: An Ecopedagogical Approach Practiced by Pesantren Annuqayah, Madura

Abstract

The massive use of plastic in the society indicated the highly unawareness of ecological impacts from the hazard. Pesantren as one of the important institution in Indonesia has a big role to the ground of the ecological knowledge to raise peoples environmental awareness. Pesantren Annuqayah, Madura, East Java has advocating and raising environmental awareness of the people surroundings through the activities against plastic rubbish. Ecopedagogy has been used by pesantren to raise peoples awareness. It is an ecoliteracy, in which the volunteer from the pesantren involved to literate local people about the dangerous effect of plastic rubbish and the importance of environmental conservation. For this reason, education is central point in which human be able to learn the importance of nature and their companionship with the earth. Human ecology is part of whole ecosystem in the world. By grounding ecopedagogy, pesantren Annuqayah has been implementing the Prophet Muhammads saying about environment, Alnadhofah min Aliman, into the practical level. They have successfully managed many contributive programs, such as using local materials to respect biodiversity in their areas, and managing socialization of ecological knowledge either to its students or to the communities surrounding.Keywords:Ecopedagogy, pesantren, and environmental conservation

The Islamic Environmentalism in Eco-Pesantren Initiatives: Integrating the Sustainable Development Values in Islamic Boarding School

“…By using the literature study and picking up several cases of 'Eco-Pesantren' in Java, this article explores the potential institution of Islamic Boarding School to integrate to recent development agenda, especially environmental sustainability in the biggest Muslim country like Indonesia. Continuing the previous study of Aoki (2016) as well as Fawaid (2016) in the similar topic, this study gives an additional case which includes the feature of modern management system to incorporate the value of Islamic environmentalism in Indonesia. Not only the centralized role of Kyai, but also the modern Islamic Boarding School that managed its 'eco-pesantren' system by using modern approach.…”

“…Another example taken by the study of Aoki (2016) was located in Central Java called PP At-Tauhid Al-Islamiy, and PP Annuqoyyah in Madura (Fawaid 2016). Another latest example observed by authors is Islamic Boarding School Roushon Fikr in Jombang.…”

“…In PP Annuqoyyah, starting from 2008 there were programs to include the environmental conservation program into the school's activities. Their program was based on student initiatives to be sustainable for a longer period (Fawaid 2016). Their student initiates themselves to implement the Qur'anic teaching on environmental sustainability by went to the public dump, collected plastic rubbish and created many kinds of creative handicrafts from such rubbish.…”

“…Their student initiates themselves to implement the Qur'anic teaching on environmental sustainability by went to the public dump, collected plastic rubbish and created many kinds of creative handicrafts from such rubbish. They are also involved in the socialization of plastic rubbish in other schools and local people (Fawaid 2016). Their basic idea of these 'Eco-pesantren' initiatives is increasing the student's eco-literacy and lit their eco-pedagogy in the value of environmentalism.…”

Environmental Activism in Indonesian Pesantren: The Role of Lora in Mainstreaming Islamic Eco-theology in Tapal Kuda, East Java

“…22 Second, there are the studies on environmental conservation movements in the Muslim community, such as the Murtadho 23 and Saepudin. 24 Third, some studies focussed on the pesantren culture and figures such as Baiquni, 25 Mangunjaya, 26 Anwar et al, 27 Qori'ah et al, 28 Bakhtiar et al, 29 Choiron, 30 Fahrurrazi, 31 Mahzumi et al, 32 Fawaid, 33 Khitam, 34 and Tasidin et al 35 However, there has not yet been a regional study that discusses the role of the kiai in environmental conservation. Therefore, this study seeks to fill the gap by examining the environmental activism of the lora of Tapal Kuda.…”