Eco Pesantren development: Challenges and opportunities to conservation development

Abstract

Developing to friendly, greenery, and sustain in the modern era is not easy to implement, because of development is more depends on economic profit, which has exploited massively and destructively to welfare or wellbeing achieved. Those phenomena are part of one symptom to environmental or land degradation occurrence accumulatively, so indirectly or directly it caused of interest conflict in competing to natural resources that diminished. Hence, it needed an alternative solution, which one is conservation acted in land restoring kindly and effectively and of course based on religions (Islamic) approach. Exploring and understanding verses (The Holy Qur’an) related to land management to conservation, which is a method that used in collecting data and it's used to analysis, alongside observation and in-depth individual interview is also to strengthen a scientific argument based on field data result. The result of this research revealed that the boarding school of Al-Zaytun is one of all examples of success in land and water management to conservation and it’s able to food, water, and energy security development kindly and sustains. Empirically that Pesantren Al-Zaytun is able to both manage and utilize waste (water) kindly and ecologically, which is reuse, reduce, and recycle development paradigm, so it has become of example to development in the modern era, alongside its ability to representative developed in utilizing to natural resources management for development ecologically.