Seorang sastrawan dapat mengekspresikan semestanya dalam sebuah karya sastra. Semua yang ia tuangkan dalam teks sastra merupakan gagasan-gagasan yang ingin ia katakan kepada pembacanya. Kumpulan gagasan tersebut bisa dikatakan sebagai ideologi, setidaknya ideologi pengarang. Hadirnya ideologi bertujuan untuk menawarkan perubahan, memperbaiki tatanan yang sudah ada, atau bahkan merubah total keb…
Tulisan ini merupakan kajian dalam menindaklanjuti saran dari hasil penelitian penulis [2009], tentang perlunya mewujudkan Televisi Pembangunan Pedesaan guna memenuhi kebutuhan informasi yang terus berkembang bagi peningkatan kualitas SDM masyarakat pedesaan. Melalui hasil kajian literatur dan bahasan diketahui bahwa media televisi merupakan media massa yang paling digemari masyarakat dan setia…
This paper analyzes pluralism comprehension in the context of da'wah. The understanding of pluralism in this study viewed through the perspective of Islam as a religion 'rahmatan lil alamin'. The conception of da'wah rahmatal lil alamin encompasses eartly and uhrawi aspects. Conception is a set beliefs and worship of good legal system that includes a total and complete unity, ethics and morals,…
Qital or war within Islam is not something that is justified, much less accustomed. However, he sometimes had to be done in times of need. Indeed there are verses and hadith which allow the war, but it was not to be taken literally, since there verses and hadith which allow the war, but it was not to be taken literally, since there is periodization in time of the Prophet which then differentiat…
Background of this research is based on an empirical reality that part of Ponorogo society, especially warok class concludes to defend eastern tradition through explore traditional norm, namely ritual behavior in mystic dimension. Existence of this ritual behavior was looked as positive respond toward modern living challage. The main problems in this research are how ritual behavior warok order…
This paper examined the meaning of lapindo mudflow victims' behavior. Through analyzing their behavior when the incident happened and has passed, it found two different collective consciousness, namely, when mudflow was happening, people had a good collective consciousness, while when it has passed the collective consciousness shifted to be individual consciousness. This is because everyone wan…
This paper explores the problems and challanges of current Indonesian youth. It is especially concerned with personal and social problems facing by Indonesian youth that effect to the performance of whole Indonesian generation in the future. It is argued that the contemporary Indonesian youth trapped by problem that exist in society, such as poverty, high crime rates, limited access to educatio…
By investigating the characteristics, attitudes and behaviors of 85 professors and lecturers at one of the Islamic universities in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, this study analyzed their giving of zakat fitrah and zakat maal. The study examined result of an online survey to assess how much faculty gave and wether they gave most often to individuals or foundations. A general tendency is that Muslims wi…
Upaya pemerintah untuk mendirikan sekolah dengan memberikan otonmi atau peran secara independen kepada para pengelola, manajer dan pemimpin sekolah untuk mengelola pendidikannya masing-masing memang telah sesuai dengan Undang-undang sistem pendidikan Nasional No. 20 tahun 2003. Namun disini lain kebijakan yang tersebut justru memberikan dampak yang tidak baik bahkan merugikan bagi sebagian masy…
Pendidikan saat ini pada umumnya amat dipengaruhi oleh pandangan hidup barat yang bercocok ateisik, sekularitik materialistik, resionalistik, empiris dan skeptis. lulusan dunia pendidikan saat ini cenderung berubah orientasi dan pola hidupnya kearah yang lebih bercocok materalistik, hedonistik, sekularistik dan individualitik, yang gejala-gejalanya antara lain kurang menghargai nilai-nilai agam…