Living Quran and Green Islam: The Ecological Role of Muslim Women in the Zero Waste Program at the Baitul Izzah Cimahi Islamic Boarding School
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https://doi.org/10.62568/gsce.v2i3.840Keywords:
Ecotheology, Green Islam, Living Quran, Waste Management, Women's AgencyAbstract
This community service program aims to optimize the Living Quran paradigm and the “Green Islam” framework by strengthening the ecotheological role of Muslim women in mobilizing collective waste management at Baitul Izzah Boarding School, Cimahi, West Java. Using a qualitative socio-legal and ethnographic Participatory Action Research (PAR) design, the activity combined eco-theological workshops, focus group discussions, participatory observation, and monthly measurement of waste-diversion metrics over an eight-month field cycle. The results demonstrate that the internalization of Surah Al-Baqarah verse 222, traditionally limited to ritual purification (ṭahārah), was dynamically transformed by Muslim women into an active socio-ecological mandate for community-scale waste segregation, composting, a pesantren waste bank, and plastic reduction. Rural Muslim women and santriwati acted as the primary agents of ecological transformation, translating abstract theological ethics into concrete communal governance and reducing open waste burning by 65% across target areas. The women’s environmental committee was formally recognized as a co-manager of the pesantren ecosystem. The program contributes a progressive, gender-inclusive model to Islamic environmental jurisprudence, bridging scriptural ethics with empirical climate resilience and grassroots waste mitigation.
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