Aims and Scope

Aims:

  • To provide an open-access academic platform for researchers, lecturers, and practitioners to publish and disseminate original community service and empowerment outcomes.

  • To promote participatory, sustainable, and evidence-based solutions to societal challenges, particularly within Islamic education, community development, and local socio-economic issues.

  • To foster multidisciplinary collaboration between academia, Islamic boarding schools (pesantren), rural communities, and relevant stakeholders.

Scope: The journal welcomes original research-based community service articles covering topics including, but not limited to:

  • Islamic Community Empowerment: Capacity building, religious moderation (wasathiyah), and community development driven by Islamic boarding schools (pesantren) and faith-based organizations.

  • Community Education & Literacy: Formal and non-formal educational assistance, digital literacy, pedagogical innovations in marginalized areas, and community-based lifelong learning.

  • Socio-Economic Development & Sharia Economics: Development of MSMEs (UMKM), halal product certification, Islamic microfinance, zakat-infaq-sadaqah-waqf (ZISWAF) management, and rural economic resilience.

  • Public Health, Social Welfare & Environment: Community-based health interventions, sanitations, stunting prevention, sustainable environmental management, and disaster risk reduction.

  • Appropriate Technology Transfer: Implementation and adaptation of simple, sustainable technology to solve community problems and enhance local productivity.

  • Legal Aid, Gender & Human Rights: Legal awareness programs, advocacy, gender equality, and child protection within rural and religious communities.