The spiritually-festived Pesantren of Daarut Tauhiid, Bandung, Indonesia - The harmonious blending...

THE SPIRITUALLY PESANTREN of DAARUT TAUHIID“The harmonious blending of courtesy of local culture, religious impression &

profane atmosphere towards creation of contemporary spiritual urban culture “

Department of Architecture, School of Architecture, Planning & Policy DevelopmentInstitute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia

Ir. BUDI FAISAL, MLA., MAUD., PhD

IRA IKA SEPTINA, S.T.

International Seminar, Workshop, Exhibition & Bazaar on Urban Culture - ARTE-POLIS : CREATIVE CULTURE & THE MAKING OF PLACE Bandung, Indonesia, 21-23 July 2006.

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International Seminar, Workshop, Exhibition & Bazaar on Urban CultureARTE-POLIS : CREATIVE CULTURE AND THE MAKING OF PLACE

Bandung, Indonesia, 21-23 July 2006.

Living Space in Architecture

‘Living spaces’ :

• Accumulatively formed by certain kind of

embedded local adopted-cultures within it not

sterile

• Gradually composed through a period of time

• Influenced by the mixture of local/traditional culture

and modernization forces.

Assimilation of local culture, modern life-style & religious values in INDONESIA

inimitable characteristic & high quality living spaces

Pesantren DAARUT TAUHIID is good example to show this uniqueness

Daarut Tauhiid area main entranceSource : documentation

Along Gegerkalong Girang st. SituationSource : documentation



Daarut Tauhiid, Bandung, Indonesia

AA Gym motto around Daarut Tauhiid areaSource : documentation

Daarut Tauhiid Logo

• Established in 1990

• A unique urban pesantren

• A distinctive integration of Islamic way of life,urban life-style & West Java culture

• Every month, + 30,000 people visit Daarut Tauhiid

• One of the most visited places in Bandung - eventhough it’s not on tourism destination map

Daarut Tauhiid :

“An abode for those who aspire to be the true

servants of Allah“



Abdullah GymnastiarPesantren Leader

•DAARUT TAUHIID Pesantren leader and initiator

•One of the most popular man in Indonesia

•A modern-spiritual Moslem

•Humble, soft-spoken and “very down-to-earth” personality

• Entrepreneurial and leadership personality

•Military family & education background

• Electrical & industrial engineering education background

AA Gym greets everyone without concerns to theirs social class Source : AA Gym Apa Adanya

AA Gym military background & singing hobby complete his energetic figureSource : AA Gym Apa Adanya



Abdullah GymnastiarEntrepreneurial & Leadership PersonalityAA Gym concept :

• Advancing Moslems economy through modern-day practices of business with spiritual values

• Developes Islamic educational & religious subjects, as well as economy and management matters

AA Gym says :

"You must remember, the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was a businessman himself" (the Holy Man, Time magazine, November 2002)

MQ TV studio activitiesSource : documentation

Daarut Tauhiid Economic activities (Mq Travel, Darul Jannah cottage, Mini Market & Pojok AA Gym) Source : documentation

AA Gym trains santris to run good businessSource : AA Gym Apa Adanya



Abdullah GymnastiarAffection of EnvironmentNeat, clean & tidy arrangement at Daarut Tauhiid :

• No garbage, even a cigarette butt or piece of paper thrown around

• Garbage-bin along the road with Islamic advice

• Tidy arrangement of sandals & parked-motors facing at each Pesantren building

Islamic teaching :

"Cleanliness is a vital part of Islam faith"

Neat arrangement of sandals & shoes facingSource : documentation

Tidy arrangement of parked-motor facingSource : documentation

Flower kiosk, for environment embelishment & santri enterpreneurship trainingSource : documentation



Abdullah GymnastiarAffection of Environment

Keeping environment cleaness & giving Islamic advice can be done in one actionSource : documentation

Islamic advice poster along pedestrianSource : documentation

Environment greening in narrow space aroun Daarut Tauhiid areaSource : documentation



What kind of contemporary spiritual environment

aspects that being evolved and transformed at

Daarut Tauhiid?



Contemporary Spiritual Urban Space & Culture

• Establish in 1980

• Self-sufficient economic activities,

such as prodution of :

- Magazines & reading materials

- Muslim-made ketchup & sauces

- Bean curd

- Yellow & white mee, etc.

• Close exclusive community for

members only

• Aa Gym expanded the

economic activities to

wider horizon, such as :

- Economic enterprises

- Tourism activities

- TV & radio studio

- Surrounding community

empowerment, etc

• Virtual & open to everyone

DARUL ARQAM, MALAYSIA

an inspiration to

establish

DAARUT TAUHIID

DAARUT TAUHIID, BANDUNG




CONVENTIONAL PESANTREN DAARUT TAUHIID PESANTREN

Religious study only

Associated with santris dressed in sarong & peci carrying antiquated yellowed books

In rural area

Isolated from local community

Religious studies, theory & practice of good business

Entrepreneurship & leadership

In urban area of Bandung

No physical segregation with local community

Santris & surrounding community involved

AA Gym philosophy :• Independent• Helping each other • Living together - one big family• Spiritual way of life without

neglecting the wordly life

Daarut Tauhiid Dome for Public and Santris activitiesSource : documentation




Living-spaces among Pesantren facilities & residential area have no definite boundaries

Buildings were standing in union to provide comfortable activity spaces

Physical division usually has potential of creating social conflict

No definite boundaries between Daarut Tauhiid Area & local community areaSource : documentation

Small space between dense buildings become a

comfort activity placeSource : documentation



Facilities around :

• Daarut Tauhiid Mosque

• Baitul Mal office

• Kopontren Mini market

• Daarut Tauhiid Foundation Office

• Information centre

• Telecommunication booths

• Preacher’s headquarters

• Commune’s leader’s lodgings

• Qur’an kindergarten

• Function halls

• Santri dormitories

• Hotels & local inns

• Stalls and kiosks : books, magazines & Moslem wears

• Food stalls

• Dapur Teteh Sundanese restaurant

• MQ Corporation Office

• TV & Radio station

• Printing & publication unit

• Dispensary, clinic & health facilities

• Fashion & salon boutique

• Internet & document printing kiosks

, etc.

Daarut Tauhiid Bird Eye ViewSource : documentation



The township centre known as the “Mosque of a Thousand Hands with

festived atmosphere commercial facilities around

Daarut Tauhiid Mosque in 1993Source : documentation

Sacred vs ‘Profane’ Environment

Daarut Tauhiid Mosque Situation with festived-atmosphere around. Shoes and sandals tidy facing-arrangement become one of its characteristic

Source : documentation



Sloppy & dense area of Daarut Tauhiid with amenities in short walking distance

to one another with festived atmosphere

Kiosks & Stalls shape Festived Islamic atmosphere along Gegerkalong Girang st.Daarut Tauhiid Pesantren AreaSource : documentation




Daarut Tauhiid is a living community that reduces the gap between business and spirituality


Kiosks & Stalls shape Festived Islamic atmosphere along Gegerkalong Girang st.Daarut Tauhiid Pesantren AreaSource : documentation



Manajemen Qolbu training has been attended by wide range of people who are, surprisingly, not only Moslems, but also Christians, Buddhists and Hindus

‘Physically’ Pesantren nuance and façades nearly remind you of the busy hedonistic

shopping arcades at Kuta, Bali – but with strong ‘sacred’ Islamic ambiance


Manajemen Qalbu Training Atmosphere, Full with visitors at

weekendSource : documentation



Amazingly,

those activities not only run by santris,

but also by the neighborhood communities.

It’s a very real on going community empowerment !



Eco Pesantren Daarut Tauhiid

1. Self Sufficient Community

2. Organic Food Farming

3. Sustainable Building

4. Water Recycling

5. Waste Recycling

6. Enviromental Friendly Vehicles

ECO-PESANTREN CONCEPT

ECO PESANTREN DAARUT TAUHIID :

is a pesantren institution with a development planning strongly concurred

to Sustainable Development principles and environmental-oriented

design with agriculture as the primary product in rural empowerment.

ECO PESANTREN situation illustration




Since 2005, Daarut Tauhiid was developed a village pesantren model that has different

activities approching than wellknown urban pesantren at Gegerkalong Girang

Illustration of Outbond Facility ECO-PESANTREN

Eco-Pesantren facilities:

Agricultural & Animal Husbandry

- Agricultural fields

- Animal Husbandry

- Technology laboratories

- Farming cooperatives.

2. Educational & Religious Facility

- Mosque

- Elementary School

- Junior High School

- Senior High School

3. Supporting Facilities

- Santri's Boarding House.

- Pesantren Cooperative

- Multi-Purpose Building.

- Wastage Recycling facilities

- Water Treatment Facilities.




AFRICULTURE FIELD

SCHOOLS

MOSQUE

SANTRI DORMITORIES

PREACHER HOUSES

KOPONTREN

WASTE PROCESSING FACILITIES

CYBER CENTER

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

ECO PESANTREN Masterplan Illustration

ECO PESANTREN Mosque Illustration



Eco Pesantren Daarut TauhiidFARMING ACTIVITIES

Conventional MethodHeight 110 cm

Pale colored leafs

Organic FertilizerHeight 170 cm

Greener & wider leafs

Conventionalmethod

Organic Fertilizer-used

ECO-PESANTREN Animal HusbandryActivities of Santri & Local Community on ECO-PESANTREN area




Agriculture field at ECO-PESANTREN, Cigugur Girang

Field Activities between Santri and local communities on ECO-PESANTREN

FARMING ACTIVITIES




Illustration of educational facilities conditions in Eco-Pesantren, Cigugur Girang.

Illustration of youth and santri boarding house facility in Eco-Pesantren, Cigugur Girang

EDUCATION FACILITIES



Eco Pesantren Daarut TauhiidRENEWABLE ENERGY

RESOURCES CONCEPT

Bio Diesel applicationWater energy mini turbin to provide electricity

MARLIP, Battery energy vehicle Windmill for electricitySolar Panel (Solar Cell)



Eco Pesantren Daarut TauhiidWATER & WASTE

MANAGEMENT CONCEPT

Rainwater and grey water will be channelled to grease trap and drainage. While the other part will be processed into watering and fisheries systems

Waste division into 3 kind garbage bin and incinerator using



Eco Pesantren Daarut TauhiidPRESENT FACILITIES

Flower Stall & Green-house (joint-program with local inhabitant)




Biogas instalation and jarak seeding-field

Renewable Energy Processing Facility

Farming hut at ECO PESANTREN area




Strawberry green-house and other agriculture field (corn and lettuce)



C o n c l u s i o n

“ Pesantren Daarut Tauhiid not only shows to the public

the blending of the warmth of eastern courtesy with the

softness of Islam

- something that is completely different from recent

negative image of Islam -

but it also provides a new spiritual urban culture that

physically manifests itself in the creation of a populist

and festive urban niche in Bandung “



R e f e r e n c e

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mix of piety and prosperity; TIME Asia Magazine; Asia; November, 11, 2002

http://rspas.anu.edu.au/papers/anthropology/04_fox_islam_indonesia.pdf.; J. Fox, J.;

Currents in Contemporary Islam in Indonesia; Research School of Pacific and

Asian Studies, The Australian National University; 29 April – 1 May 2004;

Cambrige, Mass

http://www.sp18.com/2005/07/18/meet-aa-gym-indonesias-most-popular-preacher;

Meet Aa Gym, Indonesia’s Most Popular Preacher; Monday, Jul 18th, 2005, 21:35

Indonesia Mediawatch; Pesantren Producing Businessmen ? Why not ?; 4 January

2002

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http://www.sp18.com/2005/07/18/meet-aa-gym-indonesias-most-popular-preacher

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