Exploring Internal Quality Assurance System for Pesantren in Indonesia

Abstract

Quality assurance can be revealed with a system process of an institution starting from the input, knowledge standards, achievement, and assessment oriented to pesantren development. Indonesian government set the QAS for the public school and promoted pesantren to set their own QAS. This study aims to explore possibilities in creating a set of criteria that apply to all kinds of pesantren with their approach characteristics. This study uses library research that studies literature from journals, proceedings, and books. This study revealed that the interconnection of pesantren type with quality assurance approaches makes it possible to create a single instrument of internal QAS. In addition, the four standards become categories of Internal QAS. As a limitation of this study, the researchers recommend identifying each category into several indicators based on the scope.