Location: Muntilan, Indonesia (South-East Asia)This Pesantren is a rural co-educational boarding school, a traditional Islamic educational establishment, which trains young people to assist the villages in reversing their decline. To establish sound interactive relationships between itself and the surrounding villages, the institution offers, in addition to its general education and practical skills programme, agricultural and medical services as well as training in building construction. In the latter programme students and villagers are taught the use of local resources, materials and technologies, and the means to integrate traditional rural design elements with modern materials and systems.
Students are trained in construction techniques© Christopher Little
Students are trained in carpentry© Courtesy of Architect
Worshippers pray outside the mosque© Christopher Little
Interior, classroom built by the students© Christopher Little
Exterior, classroom© Christopher Little
The students of the pesantren are trained in the building trades© Christopher Little
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View to a private residence© Christopher Little
Residences around the pesantren complex© Christopher Little
Students digging an irrigation channel© Christopher Little
A woman seperates rice© Christopher Little
The plaza and library© Christopher Little
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