pesantren
- n a Muslim school in Indonesia operated by religious leaders; produces young militants skilled in jihad
- Indonesia has yet to take action against the handful of pesantren, or Muslim boarding schools, that have been breeding grounds for future terrorists, and young Muslim men are still .
- It was in the traditional pesantren in Jombang that Wahid learned the Koran, and also the habits of the kyai, the clerics who tend to sit around joking and .
- That message is being broadcast from thousands of new mosques and Islamic schools, or pesantren, now proliferating across the 17,000-island archipelago.