This article describes the importance of Islamic boarding schools today to become an essential element for the continued growth of Islamic education in Indonesia and to become institutions that can create and produce excellent students who have been recognized. Moreover, it received recognition from the community and government. The results revealed that the recognition of Islamic boarding schools as Islamic education institutions is proven by including Islamic boarding schools as part of a National Education System (Sisdiknas). Currently, Islamic boarding schools are no longer considered only as educational institutions with traditional culture. They are even called not having legal entities but have now been recognized by the government and become part of educational institutions where their status has equal rights and obligations as other formal education. This study uses a qualitative approach, so the literature analysis was done in data processing to reveal field data. Thus, Islamic boarding schools must prepare themselves in response to government policies that seek to create a learning system that will be implemented in this COVID-19 pandemic era, especially in the face of the New Normal era.
Firman Mansir (Tue,) studied this question.