Abstract:
Environmental issues are our problem today. Therefore this article will present the function of religion as represented Pesantren, Islamic educational institution, especially in Eco-Pesantren Ath-Thaariq in West Java. This article will trace the religious idea and its ecological practices implemented in agricultural practices in reducing our environmental degradations beside as a place for education, by exploring some literatures, including in its website and interview with its leader. The result shows that Eco-Pesantren Ath-Thaariq has implemented the Islamic principle in their agricultural activities by promoting agro-ecology as a response of the crisis. In fact there is no explicit explanation of agriculture in the Qur?an or Hadith as the Islamic foundation. Yet, the Eco-Pesantren Ath-Thaariq by giving another view of concept ?no harm? in the earth that the concept does not only discusses about the moral degradation that should be repaired, but also environmental degradation that should be repaired, so that agroecology there teaches people how they should interact with the earth as the source of life.
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