A Disguised Indonesian Muslim Cleric Got Married with a 12-Year Child, Victimizing Islam

Indonesia's media and people were preoccupied with the eccentric action of a wealthy Muslim clerics named Kyai Puji who recently (August 8, 2008 at 03.00am) got married to a 12 years child in Semarang, Middle Java, Indonesia. This news became very attractive among people after he announced his plan to marry other two children, each of 7 and 9 years old (he will not sleep on them before they have mens period). His action brought about controversies among activists and religious leaders, including the Indonesian Muslim Scholars Board in Jakarta. This organization called for other Muslim religious leaders not to follow Puji's action because it will cause social problems from women and bring negative image to Islam and Muslim. Further, Musda Mulia, a well-known Muslim gender activist, accused Kyai Puji as an agent of religion-disguised pedophilia perpetrator. He used the 14-century old practice of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) who got married with 'Aisyah (may Allah bless her) when she was 9 years old. Therefore, many called for bringing Puji to the trial due to his breaking several laws related to the children protection and age limit (16 year old) for women to get married according to the Indonesian law.
From my point of view, Puji's condition is not comparable to the Prophet Muhammad. When the Prophet Muhammad got married with 'Aisyah, his first wife, Sitti Khadijah who was accompanying him in the best way for 25 years died. When she died, Muhammad (peace be upon him) was very desprate  and felt abondaned because his granfather and uncle who had supported his struggle against the traditional power had all died. Sitti Khadijah was 40 year old when Muhammd (still 25 year old) married her. During that time, Muhammad (peace be upon him) had not had thought to get married with anyone. Secondly, marriying more than one woman was not sexually driven practise by him, but it was a social and political movement to maintain social integration among Muslims in Madinah and all Arab penunsilla at that time. This inter-religious and racial marriage was a common practise among the leaders at that time, even worse. Muhammad acted in a paternalistic way at that time to save severly degrading status of women in the society. During his period and long before, women were cheap labors and sexually highly exploited by men. Men could do anything toward women. This practise achieved the level of it was very shamful to have a girl child. If one gave birth to a girl child, she was most likely to kill her and throw her away. So, I don't see any place to compare and justify Puji's action based on Muhammad's deed. I think Puji has his own personal reasons to do so and Islamic teaching is used by him as an ideology to justify his action. Islam is a religion that has a zero-tolerant justice principle. When one uses it as a justification for his or her unjust action, Islam in fact is free from it and it is really 'victimized'.

7 in 10 Americans know very little about Islam

Most recently, former Secretary of State Colin Powell rebuked those responsible for spreading the Obama rumor, adding, "What if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is no, that's not America."

It is well-known that most Americans have feeling of hatred toward Muslims, including Muslim Americans, especially after 9/11. This is, according to a Duke University sociologist Jen'nan Ghazal Read, really "exceptional' in a country where social boundary is 'limited' and diversity is welcomed. Read mentions two common perceptions that might have led most American to this negative direction toward Islam and Muslims. First, they are trapped to the illusion of Muslim unidimentionality. They do not understand that Muslims are very diverse. Muslims that are associated with terrorism, like al-Qaedah, are very minor. Amazingly, they can become the most salient brand of Islam. Second, they think that being a Muslim is the only identity that Muslims have. However, Read's finding shows that in general Muslim Americans are just like the mainstream Americans in different aspects of life and attitudes. They have Islam as their common identity, but this identity does not prevent them from being American citizens like others.

Teknologi informasi dan perkembangan otak manusia

Sangat menarik untuk pendidik. Pernahkah Anda mendengar perbedaan struktur jaringan otak seorang musisi profesional, seperti Eby Giade berangkali atau yang lain dari seorang atletik profesional? Pernakah Anda mengenal istilah 'digital native' dan 'digital immigrant'? Sebuah hasil penelitian melaporkan bahwa anak yang sekarang yang tumbuh berkembang sebagai digital native atau asli generasi digital-kesehariannya selalu diisi dengan aktifitas yang identik dengan fasilitas digital seperti mengirim sms dan internet-memiliki jaringan otak yang lebih rumit dan kuat ketimbang kita yang tergolong generasi imigran digital-mengerti dan mengenal alat-alat digital seperti laptop dan hp setelah dewasa.

those who reported using the Internet regularly in their everyday lives showed twice as much signaling in brain regions responsible for decision-making and complex reasoning, compared with those who had limited Internet exposure.

Mungkin ini yang menjawab pertanyaan yang kadang terlontar dari mulut sebagian orang tua, "Kok anak-anak sekarang itu masih kecil-kecil udah pada cerdas ya? Pintar ya?" Tapi tunggu dulu, kita mesti hati-hati juga sebab jangan-jangan ini kerjanya orang-orang IT supaya produk digintalnya makin laku. Tapi tidak apa-apa juga sih kalau memang benar-benar produk itu baik untuk manusia dan bukan akal-akalan, apalagi kalau baik untuk perkembangan otak manusia.Namun demikian perlu tetap diingat bahwa dibalik sesuatu yang baik apabila berlebihan seringkali membawa dampak negatif yang tak terduga.

Three Physicists Don't Expect Nobel Prize

2008 Nobel Prize for Physics go to 3 physics, an Japanese-American Yoichiro Nambu, 2 Japanese physicists for their discovery of tiny breaks in the symmetry of nature's fundamental particles that facilitate people to explain reason behind the universe existence and persistency. Amazingly, none of them has expected to win Nobel Prize. They only pursue their interests in physics. This is actually a noble value that plays an important role in keeping scientist to work for the sake of humanity.Yoichiro Nambu, of the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago, will receive half of the $1.4 million prize for work he did nearly half a century ago.

Women achieves economic independence in a Iranian Way

Islam should be an underlying principle of every aspects of a Muslim, both man and woman. life. Unfortunately, the attitudes of several Muslim thinkers and Muslims in general do not show original creativity to develop practical ways of life that get along with Islamic values. They like to import everything from the West when they are facing social problems. They think that every problem that they have has its own answer in the West. This example is very clear in the field of women movement in several Muslim countries, like Indonesia., under the flag of feminism or gender study I think we must appreciate what the Iranian society initiate in their efforts to make Islam as their way of life. See this interesting news to think about their creativity. This news contains Western bias, but at least it can make you think and be more creative like Iranian society.

Get Rid of Capitalism: A Call from a Muslim Clerics

An Muslim clerics called for getting rid of capitalism in order to recover from social drawbacks. He asserted, "We will be free from disaster if we leave capitalism."

BOGOR  -- Ustad Anwar Iman mengajak umat Islam termasuk di Indonesia melepaskan diri dari sistem kapitalisme agar bisa terlepas dari keterpurukan. "Kita akan lepas dari keterpurukan bila menanggalkan kapitalisme," katanya di depan jamaah salat id yang memadati area parkir Botani Square yang berada di komplek IPB International Convention Center (IICC), Jalan Padjajaran, Bogor, Selasa. More Details ...

What Happens When We Die?

A fellow at New York City's Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Sam Parnia is one of the world's leading experts on the scientific study of death. Last week Parnia and his colleagues at the Human Consciousness Project announced their first major undertaking: a 3-year exploration of the biology behind "out-of-body" experiences. The study, known as AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation), involves the collaboration of 25 major medical centers through Europe, Canada and the U.S. and will examine some 1,500 survivors of cardiac arrest. TIME spoke with Parnia about the project's origins, its skeptics and the difference between the mind and the brain. Read details ...

You are Invited to Join Faiths Act Fellowship

Dear Friend,

I believe that young people will lead the way in building inter-religious cooperation for the 21st century. That is why I am so pleased that on September 25, 2008 we have launched a partnership between the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and my organisation, Interfaith Youth Core, to engage exceptional young people whose leadership motivated by faith
will result in real impact on the lives of others. As changemakers for current and future generations, young people have the opportunity to establish a new vision of inter-religious interaction that places protecting the welfare of the world's poorest at its centre

The Faiths Act Fellowship
brings together thirty young leaders drawn from the different faiths from the US, UK and Canada to embark on a 10 month journey of interfaith service. Training begins with a two-month intensive initiative that includes fieldwork with primary health care partners
fighting deaths from malaria in Africa. Fellows will return to their home countries for 8 months to mobilize young people of faith to raise awareness and resources to promote the Millennium Development Goals. They will particularly focus on fighting deaths from malaria.

Jess Kent is an example of one such young person. Inspired by the Jewish notion of tikkun olam, or repairing the world, Jess has been mobilizing student religious groups at Brandeis University to work together to make progress on the Millennium Development Goals. Partnering with nonreligious students, humanists, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Muslims, Baha'is, Buddhists and Christians on campus, Jess has mobilized support to sponsor a Millennium Village and donate anti-malarial pills and bed nets with Brandeis University's Positive Foundations club. These students are now planning a trip to Rwanda so they can see first-hand the enormity of the challenges that they believe can be eradicated through sustained partnership across faith divides.

The Faiths Act Fellowship is an opportunity for young leaders like Jess from the UK, US and Canada to become ambassadors for interreligious cooperation in the fight against deaths due to malaria and progress toward the Millennium Development Goals. If this sounds like you or someone you know, I strongly encourage young people aged 18 - 25 in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada to apply to join the Fellowship.

Working together, across faiths and across borders, we can both prevent the unnecessary deaths of millions of people and build more peaceful communities around the world.

Assalaam alaikum,

Eboo Patel
Founder and Executive Director
Interfaith Youth Core

Photos: Interfaith Youth Core

Pembangunan 500 Madrasah Satu Atap dan Pengalihan Pinjaman Lunak ke Diknas

Departemen Agama melalui Direktorat Jendral Pendidikan Islam, menargetkan 500 Madrasah Satu Atap terbangun atau terealisasi hingga tahun 2009. Demikian ditegaskan Dirjen Pendidikan Islam (Pendis), Prof. Dr. H. Mohammad Ali, MA dalam perbincangan di Kantor Depag, Jakarta Kamis (25/9). Details ...
Konsep pembangunan madrasah satu atap sangat menarik sekaligus cerdas dari sisi hitungan ekonomi. Akan tetapi, apakah sekolah seperti itu akan memiliki lingkungan belajar yang baik bagi siswa-siswanya? Indonesia adalah negara yang berpenduduk besar sehingga membangun dua atau tiga sekolah dalam satu kompleks akan menyulitkan ruang gerak siswa-siswa. Ruang gerak sangat penting bagi proses pertumbuhan fisik dan sosial mereka. Kompleks sekolah yang terlalu padat mengesankan lingkungan 'kumuh'. Kedua, saya tidak mengerti mengapa pihak Depag hanya menggunakan tawaran dana yang sifatnya grand dan menyerakan ke Diknas bantuan yang sifatnya pinjaman lunak. Bukankah hal ini justru akan semakin mempertajam kesenjangan antara sekolah di bawah Diknas dan Depag. Kesenjangan kualitas dan kuantitas pendidikan antara kedua sistem sudah lama tercipta. Mengapa anak-anak bangsa ini harus dikotak-kotakkan hanya karena kepentingan orang-orang tertentu yang mereka tidak mengerti? Pendidikan adalah sebuah proses yang sangat menentukan 'nasib' setiap individu dari anak bangsa ini. Sangat tidak adil rasanya apabila salah seorang dari anak bangsa ini tidak dapat mengubah kelas sosial mereka di masa mendatang lewat pendidikan hanya karena struktur sosial dalam sistem pendidikan yang diciptakan oleh orang-orang yang berkuasa.

Letters: Principal's firing over Islam | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Letters: Principal's firing over Islam | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "The unfortunate Friendswood 'Islam 101' incident is a local example of the stereotypical American religious and racial intolerance that has earned the United States the disdain of much of the rest of the world." Find more ...

Rowling dispels controversy as she works magic on university audience - Scotsman.com News

Rowling dispels controversy as she works magic on university audience - Scotsman.com News: "WHEN it was announced last month that JK Rowling was to give Harvard University's most important address of the year, she was dismissed as a 'flash in the pan'.

However, any suggestion she was unwelcome was forgotten, as she received a standing ovation lasting one minute and 50 seconds from 15,000 people attending the Ivy League university's graduation ceremony on Thursday." Read more ...

Indonesians use Koran to teach environmentalism

BANTUL, Indonesia: Sitting cross-legged in the dirt beneath a canopy of jungle vegetation, Nasruddin Anshory, with his Koran open in front of him, was telling a group of visitors about their ordained responsibility to protect the environment.

"As a Muslim," he said, "you have to do something."

His visitors were a mix of people from universities and mosques all over the island of Java, seeking to broaden their understanding of Islam. Off to the side were several students from Gajah Mada University nearby, eagerly taking notes in preparation for their dissertations, all of which will focus on promoting conservation through Islam.

Nasruddin founded Ilmu Giri, an Islamic school devoted to environmentalism, five years ago. But in the past couple of years, as global awareness of climate change and related problems has increased, interest in the school has swelled.

During the Islamic holy month of Ramadan last year, Nasruddin said, thousands visited Ilmu Giri. At the United Nations conference on global climate change in Bali last December, Nasruddin was something of a star. One local newspaper called him a "hero."

His school, however, represents just the latest manifestation of an important strain within Islamic education in Indonesia. Koranic environmental principles form the core tenet of many schools here.

This belies a common perception abroad that pesantren, as Islamic boarding schools are called in Indonesia, are mostly extremist breeding grounds. Only a few hours away from Ilmu Giri is Pesantren al-Mukmin, some of whose graduates are associated with the Southeast Asian terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah.

But Ahmad Suaedy, executive director of the Wahid Institute, an organization based in Jakarta that promotes peaceful and pluralistic Islam, said pesantren are more often than not involved in positive social and economic development. Environmentalism, he said, is just the most recent pesantren cause.

"Environmental awareness is growing more and more among the pesantren community," he said. "This is partly because there is more attention to the environment in Indonesia in general and the recent United Nations conference in Bali."

The first environmental pesantren in Indonesia, however, was founded long before the United Nations or anyone else took notice of climate change.

On the island of Madura off northeastern Java is Pesantren Guluk-Guluk, also called Al Nuqayah, which was established in 1887. Its founder, Muhammad Syarqawi, who had traveled to Mecca, originally opened the school to spread Islam on an island that was then a lawless place, often a violent one.

He soon concluded that the fundamental problem was the small island's devastated environment. It was desperately dry, and fresh water was scarce.

So Syarqawi shifted his focus to teaching the island's villagers, with the help of the Koran, about conservation.

The Koran, Suaedy says, contains numerous references to environmental protection, including the line: "Don't do destruction upon this earth." At one point, the Koran equates a human life with that of a tree: "Do not kill women, elders, children, civilians or trees."

Saleem Ali, associate dean of graduate studies at the Rubenstein School for the Environment at the University of Vermont, says Islamic environmentalism can be traced back to the religion's origins in the seventh century.

"The advent of Islam as an organized religion occurred in the desert environment of Arabia, and hence there was considerable attention paid to ecological concerns within Islamic ethics," he said. "There is a reverence of nature that stems from essential pragmatism within the faith."

Guluk-Guluk, which is coeducational and whose students and range from elementary to university age, has won several prestigious local and international awards, yet it remained the only one of its kind for decades.

Attendance in the past 20 years, however, has ballooned to more than 6,500 from 1,200, and a number of its graduates have gone on to open schools all over Indonesia.

But it is the much smaller Ilmu Giri near Yogyakarta, in central Java, that is drawing the most attention these days. That might owe something to Nasruddin's sprawling network of friends across the globe.

He is a former researcher for several private organizations, work that took him to more than 60 countries. He also produces television soap operas and is an award-winning poet. His writings are mostly protests against government neglect of economic and social needs.

"It makes me tremble to see average Indonesians suffer as their government ignores their problems," he said in an interview at the school.

The school itself resembles a sort of tiny outdoor summer camp, complete with cabins and a makeshift volleyball court, in a hillside hamlet made up mostly of farmers. The few buildings, including the small mosque, are open structures of bamboo, but many of the discussions take place outside anyway. Trees seem to be slowly swallowing up the buildings. Chickens, cows and other animals roam freely. Source

Technorati Tags: Indonesia, Koran, environment

Indonesia: New Text Book On Human Rights

Hukum Hak Asasi Manusia is the title of the new text book on Human rights in bahasa Indonesia, financed by the Norwegian Center for Human Rights (NCHR) in Oslo.
"This book is a text book which is a general introduction for students in Human Rights Law. A number of International and Indonesian experts have contributed to this book", says Mr Knut Asplund, programme manager at the NCHR.
The text book, which is edited by Mr. Eko Riyadi, has a preface by UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Mr Philip Alston and catholic philosopher Frans Magnis-Suseno. It is the result of a long-term relationship between Norwegian Center for Human Rights and Center for Human Rights Studies at the Islamic University in Yogyakarta.
The first edition is printed in 1000 copies and is the most comprehensive text book on human rights ever to be published in bahasa Indonesia. The target audience is both law school students and the general public.
On Saturday 19 April, the text book was launched in Yogyakarta. Principal Edy Suandi Hamid at the Islamic University i Yogyakarta (middle in the picture above) performed the official ceremonial launch of the book. This event was followed by a seminar on implementation of human rights in Indonesia. Find more ...

Technorati Tags: human right, human right in Indonesian, text book

Mau Masuk ITB, UI, dan PTN TOP Lainnya?

Mau Lulus USM ITB, UMB UI, UNPAD atau SNMPTN 2008?

TAPI BELUM KETEMU CARA YANG PALING PAS UNTUK BELAJAR dan BINGUNG MAU MULAI DARI MANA??
Kalau Elo punya masalah-masalah seperti:
1. NILAI TRY OUT masih Pas-Pas an
2. BELUM NGUASAIN KONSEP Buat ngerjain Soal-Soal?
3. Males Belajar karena bingung harus mulai dari mana?...
4. Ga Yakin bisa masuk PTN padahal loe Pengen banget?
5. Atau bingung, belum dapat Cara Belajar yang efektif dan pas?
6. Sering Lupa RUMUS atau KONSEP Penting!
7. Ga Pede Ngerjain soal yang Pelajarannya belum masuk otak Loe?
8. Belum siap ngehadapin USM, UM, atau SPMB?
9. Atau Elo belum tau kalau sekarang SPMB formatnya baru jadi SNMPTN dan kemungkinan besar bakal Ada Tes bakat skolastiknya? Selengkapnya ...

Technorati Tags: ITB, INPAD

Penawaran Beasiswa dan Non Beasiswa Mesir tahun akademik 2008-2009

Pendahuluan
1. Sebagai tindak lanjut dari Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) dengan Departemen Agama,
Universitas Al-Azhar Mesir akan memberikan beasiswa kepada putera-puteri Indonesia
dengan formasi sebagai berikut :
a. Al-Azhar Al-Syarif Mesir menawarkan 90 (sembilan puluh) beasiswa S1 dan 20
(duapuluh) beasiswa S2 untuk tahun akademik 2008-2009
b. Kementerian Pendidikan Tinggi Mesir menawarkan 5 (lima) beasiswa S1 untuk tahun
akademik 2008-2009 bagi pemegang ijazah SLTA.
2. Untuk mengantisipasi meningkatnya minat calon mahasiswa Indonesia ke Mesir yang tidak
dibarengi dengan kualitas memadai, Departemen Agama akan melakukan penyeleksian
calon MAHASISWA NON BEASISWA dengan menguji kemampuan akademik,
hafalan/bacaan Al Qur’an dan bahasa Arab. Full Info ... Link

Technorati Tags: Beasiswa, Mesir, scholarship

Wanted: Humane education

May 03, 2008

Ing ngarso sung tulodo
Ing madyo mangun karso
Tut wuri handayani
(In front, giving example
In the middle, building work
In the back, giving support)

These three Javanese sentences are from Raden Mas Soewardi Soerjaningrat, who later changed his name to Ki Hadjar Dewantara, and whose birthday, May 2, 1889, we celebrate as National Education Day.
Before stepping into education, Ki Hadjar Dewantara was active in politics through organizations including Boedi Oetomo, whose establishment on May 20, 1908, we celebrate as National Awakening Day.
Because of his writings in 1913, critical of the Dutch ruler, he was exiled to Bangka Island, and later to the Netherlands. Upon his return, he established the educational institution Tamansiswa on July 3, 1922, which would later be regarded as the foundation of the national education system.
As we celebrate National Education Day today, it is worth reflecting once again on the history of our education and its development, and to see what we can do to "raise the intellectual capacity of the nation", as stipulated in the preamble to the Constitution.
Looking at the figures, we would be proud to see the massive improvements made from the time of Ki Hadjar Dewantara, when education was the realm of the chosen few, to our present time, when most of the nation has access to education.
The biggest improvement of all was recorded during the New Order administration under president Soeharto, who pursued equality in education policies.
Soeharto built hundreds of thousands of schools to improve access to education and later launched the mandatory basic education for all. The result was an improved national adult literacy rate of over 90 percent.
However, Soeharto was only interested in numbers, in quantity, and he did less in improving the quality of education. Worse yet, schools and teachers during this time were just an extension of the New Order's political puppeteers, and the students were at the receiving end of their machinations.
Education under Soeharto, as it turned out, was vastly different from Ki Hadjar Dewantara's teachings, whose essence was character building.
During the reform movement that followed Soeharto's downfall, political leaders tried to change the education system by making it more humane and also, unfortunately, more religious.
The first thing they did was to amend the Constitution by inserting a number of stipulations, including one on mandatory basic education, another requiring 20 percent of the budget for education and another mentioning the importance of science and technology.
The amendment also included the aim of national education, i.e. "enhancing religious and pious feelings as well as moral excellence with a view to raising the intellectual capacity of the nation."
And the result of this amendment is that the state is obliged to provide religious education for all students, something we find unnecessary.
Ten years after reformasi, our state of education has not moved much, despite the soaring costs. On many issues, it has remained the same or gotten worse.
True, Indonesia lies at the higher end of the list for East Asia in terms of Education for All Development Index, published by UNESCO, ranking above Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines, and below South Korea and China.
True, some of our best students have won international awards, including in the recent Asian Physics Olympiad. But truth be told, many of those award-winning students come from the elite schools.
The majority of our students still struggle with the mounting burden of school subjects, as our education system continues to treat them like lifeless objects.
Also, the national examination, introduced recently as the main requirement for students to graduate from secondary and high schools, has became an additional burden for many students and parents alike. For them, it's a nightmare.
The national exams, however, have nothing to do with character building or instilling moral integrity. On the contrary, they encourage cheating among students, and even teachers, and corruption at the very highest levels, by leaking the test papers.
All in all, despite the improving situation and curriculum, our education system still doesn't produce humane students with strong characters, but rather robot-like students.
Once again, we've failed to uphold the philosophical teachings of Ki Hadjar Dewantara, which puts students at the center, as the focus of the teaching-learning process.
Teachers in front should lead through examples, in the middle should work together with students, and in the back provide support.
It's time now for us to move toward a more humane education, one that treats students as human beings, builds their character and, most of all, raises the intellectual capacity of the nation. (Source)

Technorati Tags: religious education, education, pendidikan agama, HARDIKNAS

Nilai Rata-Rata Ujian Nasional Madrasah Diharapkan Meningkat

Jakarta, 16/5 (Pinmas) - Departemen Agama mengharapkan nilai rata-rata Ujian Nasional (UN) siswa Madrasah Aliyah (MA) dan Madrasah Tsanawiyah (MTs) tahun ini meningkat dibanding tahun lalu.
"Kalau tahun lalu nilai rata-rata UN madrasah aliyah misalnya 5,9, tahun ini diharapkan menjadi 6 ke atas, jadi setidaknya perbedaan nilai rata-rata dengan sekolah umum semakin tipis," kata Direktur Pendidikan pada Madrasah, Depag, Firdaus di Jakarta, Selasa.
Pihaknya mengakui adanya anggapan bahwa kualitas madrasah lebih rendah dibanding sekolah umum yang dapat dilihat dari nilai-nilai hasil Ujian Nasional yang tiap tahun lebih rendah, meskipun hanya berbeda tipis.
Dikatakan Firdaus, nilai hasil ujian nasional yang lebih rendah itu berkaitan dengan beban siswa madrasah yang lebih berat dibanding siswa sekolah umum.
Selain siswa MTs dan MA harus menghadapi mata pelajaran ujian nasional yakni Bahasa Indonesia, matematika, dan Bahasa Inggris mereka juga dihadapi dengan ujian khusus pendidikan agama, yakni Quran dan Tafsir, Sejarah Kebudayaan Islam, Aqidah dan Akhlak serta Fikih dan Hadist.
Mulai Selasa (16 Mei), berbarengan dengan siswa SMA, sekitar 400 ribu siswa kelas III Madrasah Aliyah juga mengikuti UN hingga Kamis (18 Mei). Namun mereka akan melanjutkan ujian khusus pendidikan agama seminggu berikutnya.
"Laporan dari berbagai madrasah di Indonesia, pelaksanaan UN berjalan lancar dan tertib. Sampai saat ini belum ada yang mengganggu pelaksanaannya," katanya.
Sedangkan UN bagi sekitar 800 ribu siswa kelas III Madrasah Tsanawiyah akan berlangsung pada 22 Mei hingga 24 Mei yang dilanjutkan ujian khusus pendidikan agama, ujarnya. (Sumber)

Technorati Tags: Ujian Nasional, Madrasah