ASAL USUL TUDUNG DAN PERANAN ANWAR IBRAHIM

Satu sumbangan besar ABIM melalui usaha pendidikan adalah menubuhkan Yayasan Anda Akademik, sebuah sekolah menengah persendirian yang menawarkan ruang dan kesempatan menyambung pelajaran bagi pelajar-pelajar Melayu kebanyakannya yang telah gagal mencapai gred sewaktu berada dalam sistem sekolah kerajaan biasa (memberikan peluang kedua kepada pelajar tercicir ini). Yayasan Anda ditubuhkan pada 1971 dan Anwar Ibrahim, Presiden ABIM ketika itu menjadi pengetua pertamanya. Ramai ahli-ahli ABIM juga menjadi guru-guru pengajar di situ. Yayasan Anda dianggap unik pada masa itu.

Di samping mengendalikan pendidikan sekular lazim menurut kurikulum menengah kebangsaan, Yayasan Anda juga memperkenalkan subjek Prinsip Islam, kursus-kursus pendidikan Islam, termasuk tasawur Islam dan Islam sebagai cara hidup, kebangkitan Islam dan pergerakan Islam, perbandingan agama, ekonomi Islam dan sistem politik Islam. Kod etika berpakaian Islam dipatuhi, dengan pelajar-pelajar wanita diminta memakai mini telekung - tudung - atau hijab. Penulis, Zainah Anwar memerhatikan bahawa pelajar-pelajar wanita ini yang kemudiannya berjaya melanjutkan pengajian tinggi di Universiti Malaya merupakan wanita-wanita Malaysia yang pertama memakai tudung di kampus. (Zulkifly Abdul Malek 2011, tesis Georgetown University)

ORIGINS OF THE TUDUNG

One of the most important contributions made by ABIM vis-à-vis education was the establishment of Yayasan Anda Akademik, a private secondary school that provided the means for continuing education to the mostly Malay students who could not make the grade at government schools (offering dropouts a second chance at the system). Yayasan Anda was established in 1971 and Anwar Ibrahim, ABIM’s President at the time became its first headmaster. Many ABIM members were also its first teachers. Yayasan Anda was considered unique at the time.

While it provided conventional secular education which students would receive in line with the national secondary curriculum, Yayasan Anda also introduced courses on Islam such as Islam as a way of life and worldview, Islamic renaissance and movements for reform, comparative religions, Islamic economics and Islamic political systems. Islamic dress codes were observed, where female students were asked to cover their heads in a mini telekung - tudung - the Islamic headscarf or hijab. Writer, Zainah Anwar noticed that these girls, who proceeded to successfully pursue their tertiary education at the University of Malaya became the first veiled Malaysian women on campus. (Zulkifly Abdul Malek 2011, Georgetown University thesis)

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