GREEN ISLAMIC SCHOOLS

GREEN ISLAMIC SCHOOLS

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July 21, 2022

There are some 14,000 Islamic schools in Indonesia in which more than three million students are registered. Lendo, 45, established the first out-door Islamic school with the concept of educating people on environment in 1988. The goal was creating schools that aim at building Islamic character in students and making them appreciative of nature. Islamic green schools teach the students about the environment by direct dealing from the nature instead of the old-styled conventional method of listening and writing in classrooms. “The students are being educated to plant trees and breed animals or insects in the field so we put the subjects of biology, physic and chemical together in the same lesson,” Lendo explains. “So, our laboratory is nature.”