The Reformation Era in Indonesia: Santri's Polarization and the Developmental Dynamics of Pesantren

Since the fall of Suharto's regime in 1998, Indonesia has entered a new era democracy dubbed Reformation era. Religious ideology grew throughout this period, both locally and as result globalization. As result, polarization students can no longer be read through classical or conventional typologies. The classic typology style Clifford Geertz, followed by Yon Machmudi Ahmad Najib Burhani's students, also needs to represent reality reform fully. So, literature study supported interview data offers santri divided into four forms, namely ideological, sociological, academic, political santri. These typologies color students’ impact dynamics Islamic boarding schools Indonesia. However, many cases experienced "mess polarization", so it was difficult direction during except with high monitoring intensity. Generally, rapid trend are split two big poles, moderatism fundamentalism radicalism, but they still very flexible.