Islamic Centre Mu’adz Bin Jabal (ICM) sebagai Preferensi Keagamaan Masyarakat Urban

Abstract

Institusi pendidikan keagamaan modern berkontribusi besar dalam meningkatkan religiusitas bagi masyarakat, terutama pada masyarakat perkotaan. Tulisan ini mengkaji Islamic Centre Mu’adz bin Jabal (ICM) sebagai preferensi masyarakat kota Kendari sebagai lokus pendidikan religiusitas dan kesalehan. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan sosiologi agama dengan pengumpulan data menggunakan teknik wawancara dan observasi. Hasil pengkajian yang dilakukan menemukan bahwa terdapat enam alasan bagi masyarakat kota Kendari untuk menjadikan ICM sebagai preferensi keagamaan; pertama, infrastruktur yang memadai; kedua, kurikulum pendidikan yang solid; ketiga, program dakwah berbasis kaderisasi imam dan tahfidz; keempat, layanan sosial keagamaan yag komplit; kelima, pemanfaatan media informasi dan dakwah kontemporer; dan keenam, performa Arab sebagai referensi Islam. Daya tarik ICM meluas dan menyasar hampir semua segmen dan kebutuhan ibadah masyarakat muslim di wilayah perkotaan. Kajian ini menunjukan kecenderungan masyarakat memilih lembaga disebabkan oleh kekuatan daya tarik internal dan dilegitimasi dengan branding Arab sebagai Islam otentik. Performance ICM yang merepresentasikan Arab menjadi daya tarik bagi masyarakat urban di Kota Kendari. Kekuatan daya tarik ini akhirnya membentuk jama’ah muslim, terutama segmen masyarakat menengah ke atas. Kata Kunci: institusi keagamaan, kesalehan masyarakat, konstruksi religiusitas, masyarakat urban, preferensi keagamaan. Modern religious education institutions contribute greatly in increasing religiosity for the community, especially in urban communities. This paper examines the Islamic Center Mu'adz bin Jabal (ICM) as the preference of the Kendari city community as the locus of religious and pious education. This study uses a Pusaka Jurnal Khazanah Keagamaan, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2022 21 sociological religious approach with data collection using interview and observation techniques. The results of the study found that there were six reasons the people of Kendari city made ICM a religious preference due to first, adequate infrastructure; second, a solid educational curriculum; third, the program based on the regeneration of imams and tahfidz; fourth, complete religious social services; fifth, the use of contemporary information and da'wah media; and sixth, the performance of Arabic as a reference for Islam. The appeal of ICM extends and targets almost all segments and worship needs of the Muslim community in urban areas. This study argues that the tendency of people to choose institutions is caused by the strength of internal attraction and is legitimized by the Arab branding as authentic Islam. ICM's performance, which represents Arabs, has become an attraction for urban communities in Kendari City. The strength of this attraction eventually formed the Muslim community, especially the upper middleclass segment of society.

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“…These include ethnography of the religious aspirations of urban communities (Burchardt and Westendorp, 2018), religious architecture of urban communities (de Wildt et al, 2019), study on preferences for sharia housing (Sunesti and Putri, 2022), hijab as a model (Hassim, 2014), hijab among Muslimah workers (Abdelhadi, 2019), studies on preferences for digital literacy (Prihatini and Muhid, 2021), preferences for halal food (Junaidi, 2021), (Amalia, Sosianika and Suhartanto, 2020), (Ayyub, 2015) and (Baran, 2022), acceptance of halal products by urban communities (Manan et al, 2019), preference for halal cosmetics (Abd Rahman, Asrarhaghighi and Ab Rahman, 2015) (Hashim and Musa, 2014) and (Sutono, 2017). Dzulfikar, Santosa and Gunanto (2022) examined preferences in crowdfunding platforms; Khoiriyah (2020) investigated preferences for waqf; Khoiriyah, Paramita and Pangestu (2019) explored preferences for worker recruitment; Zainal and Samsulhadi (2022) examined preferences for educational institutions; and Cesur and Mocan (2018) and Hidayah (2021) examined choice and education preferences. Studies on financial institutions were conducted by Abduh, Ramjaun and Mustaqim (2018) and Iqbal, Nisha Ijtihad: Jurnal Wacana Hukum Islam dan Kemanusiaan, Volume 23, No.…”