Martin van Bruinessen *
One of Indonesia’s great traditions is that of Muslim religious learning as embodied in the Javanese pesantren and similar institutions in the outer islands and the Malay peninsula. The raison d’être of these institutions is the transmission of traditional Islam as laid down in scripture, i.e., classical texts of the various Islamic disciplines, together with commentaries, glosses and supercommentaries on these basic texts written over the ages. Lanjutkan membaca “Pesantren and Kitab Kuning: Maintenance and Continuation of a Tradition of Religious Learning”