Mapping out the Implementation of Science-Islam Integration on University Students' Thesis at UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang
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Mapping out the Implementation of Science-Islam Integration on University Students’ Thesis at UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang 2011-2016 Mokhammad Yahya1 and Rois Imron Rosi1 1Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University of Malang, Jalan Gajayana No. 50, Malang, Indonesia Keywords: Integration, Islamization of knowledge, tree of science, Islam and science. Abstract: The institutional conversion of IAIN into UIN is then followed by the policy of implementing integration of knowledge (with Islam) as a distinctive character compared with secular universities in Indonesia. This research aims to investigate the typology of ‘integration’ from students’s thesis at UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim. It also tries to find out how far the integration implementation has been taken place. This study limits the scope only in the students’ thesis wtitten from 2011-2016. It uses library research and to sharpen the analysis, the researchers use content analysis techniques, where it emphasizes on scientific analysis of the message content of a communication. The findings reveal that to some degree the implementation of ‘integration’ has already shown the fruit of the tree of science –the distinctive school of integration embraced by UIN Malang. The lack of similarity in the pattern and the integration model in the thesis writing is because the tree of science is not a pattern or model that offers instructions and practical steps for a research and thesis writing. The tree of science model works only in the infrastructure and superstructure level. Such integration will, of course, be difficult to follow and standardize because the university is just like providing the material solely, and the process of how to integrate and interconnect is left to each individual to formulate themselves. Up to the year 2016, the exixting model of AMT, AMTT, comparasion of mufassir, meaning analysis, DKM, Paragraph and Tafseer inclusion, paragraph inclusion that are used by students in their thesis writing are still limited to interconnection type of ‘integration’. These instructions give you basic guidelines for preparing papers for conference proceedingshe abstract should summarize the contents of the paper and should contain at least 70 and at most 200 words. It should be set in 9-point font size, justified and should have a hanging indent of 2-centimenter. There should be a space before of 12- point and after of 30-point. 1 INTRODUCTION universities under Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia. This dictinction has eventually become Integrating or interconnecting (experimental and the national policy that has to be implemented for all social) sciences and Islam has become the most higher educational institutions under Ministry of crucial discourse and greatest concern for students Religious Affairs of Indonesia. whom are in colleges and universities under One of legitimating reasons held by Ministry of Ministry of Religious Affairs of Indonesia. This Religious Affairs of Indonesia on this conversion is trend has been mushrooming in line with the to prove their notion that there is no dichotomy of conversion of State Islamic Institutes (IAIN) into sciences in Islam. Science dichotomy--felt by State Islamic universities (UIN) such as UIN Sharif Ministry of Religious Affairs--has caused inequality Hidayatullah Jakarta, UIN Sunan Kalijaga in educational management that leads to inferiority Yogyakarta, UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang, and lack of quality. In addition to that the existence UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya, and others. This of science dichotomy has also influenced in the institutional change is then followed by the necessity shaping of community’s point of view. For of implementing integration of knowledge (with Indonesian Muslims, many still hold an idea that Islam) as a distinctive character compared with only Islamic sciences such as fiqh , ulum al-qur'an, hadith, tasawuf, and so forth which are mandatory to 1349 Yahya, M. and Rosi, R. Mapping out the Implementation of Science-Islam Integration on University Students’ Thesis at UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang 2011-2016. DOI: 10.5220/0009927513491355 In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations (ICRI 2018), pages 1349-1355 ISBN: 978-989-758-458-9 Copyright c 2020 by SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved ICRI 2018 - International Conference Recent Innovation be studied while the general sciences such as 2 METHOD physics, chemistry, sociology, and others are considered as secular sciences and therefore are In order to answer the problem formulation, the treated as only secondary. Therefore, it is necessary researcher uses library research. With this literature to have a new science paradigm so that it will research, a research can use analytical descriptive transform Islamic universities to become the center method, i.e. data obtained in the form of words, in developing the unity between human and revealed images and behaviors that are not poured in the form sciences. Several Moslem scientists have already of numbers or statistics, but still in the form of made concepts to reconcile general and religious qualitative by giving the description of the situation science which has been opposed one another for studied in the form of a description narrative decades. One of them is the concept of "Islamization (Margono, 2000) For that, by using descriptive of Science ". (Kano, 2000) Beside the term qualitative method it can more describe about a “Islamization”, there are also terms such as variable, symptoms or circumstances (Arikunto, naturalization of science (Kartanegara, 2003), 2000). In library research, library searching is more scientification of Islam (Kuntowijoyo, 2006), than just serving the functions mentioned for Islamic science and so forth. Starting from these obtaining research data. Assertiveness of library sacralization science concepts than there is an idea research limits its activities to library materials only to make integration of science as a prerequisite in without the need for field research (Mestika , 2008). doing conversion at Islamic institutions. To sharpen the analysis, the researcher uses There are several science-integrated models content analysis techniques, where it emphasizes on scientific analysis of the message content of a that have already been formulated by some institutes communication (Moleong, 1990). Content analysis and Islamic higher schools that already takes advantage of procedures that can derive the metamorphosed as universities among them is a conclusion of a book or document (Muhadjir, 1992). spider net science model developed by UIN The process of content analysis starts from the Yogyakarta, the concept of a science tree model communication message, sorted out, then presented by UIN Malang, concept of integration of categorized between similar data, and then be general science and religious science model initiated analyzed critically and objectively (Bleicher, 1980). by UIN Ciputat Jakarta, while , UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya carries the science concept model called "integrated twin tower '. This conceptualization of science integration is important because this 3 FONDATION OF ANALYSIS integration model will be a miniature of the educational process undertaken. 3.1 Review of Literature The implementation of religious and science integration at the State Islamic University Maulana 3.1.1 Integration Timeline of Contemporary Malik Ibrahim Malang indeed has run well enough, Islamic Thinkers as in the making of curriculum, integration -based syllabus and scientific writing written by college From historical aspect, the origin of integration has student and lecturer has already been related with started from the first five century of the emerge of turath Islami . A thing missed from attention is the Islam (7th century until 11 AD) which at that time is lack of mapping and analysis to various scientific not known about the separation between science and works done by college student and lecturer at UIN religion. Then on the end of the 11th century, the Malang. Therefore, this research aims for doing separation between science and religion emerged, mapping and analysis to find typology from various which is well known as science dichotomy writing and scientific research done by bachelor (Muttaqin, 2014). Science dichotomy is the results degree students of UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim to from the fight between intellectual people and the gain character and to find how far the integration church which later separate or negate its linkage. achievement in scientific works done by students in Science dichotomy has broaden its scope as UIN Malang. Thus, this research attempts to explore secular teachings from west came to Islam world, so the implementation of “tree science" model in this factor made deep disintegration among Muslim student research of UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim people (Muttaqin, 2014) This disintegration made Malang as well as the developed model. This some contemporary Muslim scholars rethink about research limits the scope only in the thesis wtitten by science and religion integration concept as has bachelor degree in 2011-2016. happened on early century of progressive Islam. 1350 Mapping out the Implementation of Science-Islam Integration on University Students’ Thesis at UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang 2011-2016 As result, several integration models were other hand, with a fertile environment, strong roots introduced by contemporary Muslim scientists on and strong stems will create good