When I was sitting in a coffee shop, there was a woman who was about 40 years old with her child in front of my coffee table. It was seen that his mother was advising her son who had just graduated from school. It seems the mother told her son to continue his education at the university, but the child did not want to. he just wants to work. I heard that his mother said "campus is the best place to seek knowledge"
I just smiled hearing their debate. I don't agree with his mother's opinion, although the campus is a good place to seek knowledge, it is not the best. For me personally, our own life experiences will give us knowledge. I even lived on the streets. The streets are a place of much suffering that deserves a lesson.
Talking about campus, I remember when I was still in college. I felt that my life was bound by the social system that I had to live through. One of them was studying on campus. I am one of the lucky ones to get scholarships and free education at a university that has progressive Islamic thinking in Indonesia. I study at UIN Jakarta, here there are a lot of Islamic ideologies that thrive
Due to a large number of Islamic ideologies on my campus, it is very difficult for an ideology with fundamental nuances to enter UIN, because those who think religion is the absolute truth will be discussed critically by UIN students. The fundamental Islamic ideology thrives on secular campuses that have the best accreditations in Indonesia, such as ITB, UI, IPB, etc.
The secular campuses that I mentioned above have students and lecturers who are extraordinarily high in intelligence. They are intelligent people but can be possessed by such a fundamentally styled ideology. Maybe they don't have a strong foundation of religious knowledge. They think that religion has absolute truth and shouldn't be criticized so that when a religious argument is given, they will immediately be indoctrinated.
Fundamental ideological missionaries are armed with religious propositions, people who will be instigated by religious arguments are people who do not have a strong basic knowledge of religion. When missionaries spread fundamental ideologies on the UIN campus with religious arguments, they will be rewarded again with arguments, so it is very difficult for fundamental missionaries to penetrate the minds of UIN students. Many UIN students come from Islamic boarding schools, so they have a strong basic knowledge of religion.
In addition, the UIN campus has many student organizations with socio-religious patterns, the famous ones being HMI, PMII, IMM, and KAMMI. This student organization was formed to counteract the flow of foreign fundamental ideologies that began to penetrate the minds of young people in Indonesia, except for the KAMMI organization.
HMI was formed from a political organization called Masyumi, PMII was formed from a political organization called Nahdatul Ulama, and IMM was formed from the political organization Muhammadiyah. The three-parent organizations existed before Indonesia's independence. From the history and political conflicts in Indonesia in the past, the parent political organization gave birth to a student organization, and it still exists today. I don't know how KAMMI was born, what is clear is that their ideology is oriented to a political party in Egypt called the Ikhwanul Muslimin. It's too far to discuss the Ikhwanul Muslimin here. Maybe next time