Coastal Community Response to the Movement of Literacy: a study on literacy culture in Demak pesantren's

¹ Postgraduate Program in Cultural Studies, Sebelas Maret University, Ir. Sutami No. 36A street, Surakarta 57126 Indonesia
² Departement of Library Science, Diponegoro University, Prof. H. Soedarto SH Street, Semarang 50275 Indonesia
³ Communication of Islamic Broadcasting, Faculty of Ushuludin and Da'wah IAIN Surakarta, Pandawa street, Pucangan, Kartasura, Sukoharjo 57168, Indonesia

Abstract

Coastal communities as open societies have historically known the tradition of literacy rather than inland communities. Openness has greatly influenced the teachings of Islam, which later developed into a Coastal Islam. Coastal Islam was born as a consequence of the birth of pesantren along the coast of Java. For pesantren, literacy culture is often interpreted as a routine activity of reading and writing that can not be separated from modern human lifestyle, especially in the world of education (school). In this millennial era, the culture of literacy is declining, along with the rapid use of social media as a new source of information. This study uses a cultural approach that attempts to describe the empirical realities of coastal communities, in the form of social movements, beliefs, social and cultural behaviors related to cultural literacy in pesantren of Demak district. To analyze the event by collecting data through observation, interview, and tracking documentation narrated in the form of qualitative-descriptive with descriptive-interpretative analysis. The results of research include; first Salafiyah-type pesantren view literacy culture is the same as reading al-Quran and tool books (Arabic) to understand the Qur'an and Sunnah. Both pesantrens of combination type, The culture of literacy understood the effort towards the culture of the Qur'an and Sunnah for the personal stabilization of the literate by equipping other readings for life skills. The three pesantren Ashriyah, literacy culture is understood as the refraction of reading and writing of the Qur'an and other literary readings, which are hierarchically started from the Kyai, Asatidz, senior to junior Santri, with collaborative, programmed, synergistic and continuous.