Definition of "pesantran" []

• A Muslim school in Indonesia operated by religious leaders; produces young militants skilled in jihad (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "After three of the men executed for carrying out the 2002 Bali bombing were linked back to Bashir's Ngruki, some analysts turned a harsh eye on Indonesia's Islamic boarding schools, called pesantran."
• "Jones also suspects that the brother-in-law of Dulmatin, the head of the camp who was killed by police last year, trained students during his brief stay at the Umar bin Khatab pesantran in June 2009."
• "Indoctrinization in radicalismBoarding schools today are very different, said Kusuma, whose nephews currently attend a moderate, modern pesantran that includes English and computer classes."