Highlighting The Case Of Santri Killed At Islamic Boarding School, Tangerang Regency Ministry Of Religion Asks Every Room To Have A Ustaz Supervisor

Daarul Qolam 1 Islamic Boarding School (Ponpes), Jayanti, Tangerang Regency/ Photo: IST

TANGERANG - The Office of the Ministry of Religion (Kemenag) of Tangerang Regency spoke about the incident of fighting among students at the Daarul Qolam 1 Islamic Boarding School (Ponpes) in Jayanti, Tangerang Regency, which resulted in the death of one student on Sunday, August 7, at 06.25 WIB.

The Head of the Islamic Boarding School Section at the Tangerang Ministry of Religion, Joni Juhaemin, asked the Ponpes management to increase supervision on every side. This is to prevent similar incidents from happening.

"We've been to the pesantren to get information directly from the pesantren. We also asked for CCTV to be installed so that things like this can be anticipated," said Joni when confirmed, Monday, August 8.

In addition, Joni asked the Ustaz at the Islamic boarding school to continue to monitor the rooms of his students. This is an improvement step so that cases of violence do not recur in the area.

"We ask that each room has a supervisory cleric," he concluded.

Islamic boarding school teachers don't know there is a fight

The Ponpes teacher, Ahmad Idrus admitted that he did not know at the time of the incident. Because he and other teachers are still getting ready to teach.

"It happened during working hours. We are getting ready to teach, all of these teachers are preparing to teach at that hour. So we also didn't know there was such a thing," said Ahmad when met at the Daarul Qolam 1 Islamic boarding school, Jayanti, Regency Tangerang, Monday, August 8th.

"We know. So there are the sabtri who report to us, there are children who are unconscious after the dispute," he continued.