Pesantren: the miniature of moderate Islam in Indonesia

Since reformation movement was trundled by students and people in Indonesia in 1998, all most thought and social movement domain are influenced by the reformation, primarily those relate to the religious understanding and its practice. At the time before reformation the people were in the quo status detention, who used to agree with all the uniformity of thought and movement?including in religious practice. However, in line with the reformation movement, the uniformity have been dissolved, so it encourages the emergence of various new religious thoughts. These have brought the consequences of emerging issues of islamic liberalism, fundamentalism, moderatism, ect. in Indonesia. The study of moderate Islam Indonesia have found the momentum to be seeked the roots of the devolopment in Pesantren.