Ma'had Al-Jami’ah Urgency as a Character Education Center of "Malay Islamic" in The Indonesian Islamic University

Abstract

This paper aimed to reveal the phenomenon of Ma'had al-Jami'ah as the character educationcenter of Malay Islamic. For the above purpose, the approach used was phenomenology, whichexpressed every phenomenon that occurred and understood the meaning contained behind thephenomenon. Meanwhile, to get the real meaning of the analyst used was critical correspondence, which
was trying to understand the meaning of phenomena and the actions of a person or group while linkingthem with relevant general concepts. This paper concluded that Ma'had al-Jami'ah had real urgency as acenter for character development through efforts to function Ma'had al-Jami'ah as a Malay Islamic sociallaboratory, as an educational center for Malay Islamic democracy, as an educational center multicultural"Malay Islam", as a center for the nursery of Malay Islamic learning traditions, and as a center of culturalheritage of the Malay nation