Gadingmangu school buildings

Junior and Senior High School BUDI UTOMO

Gadingmangu is a village with the largest population in the district of Jombang and very well-known as a place of education as in the early posttitled a brief history of GadingMangu. Gadingmangu is a village full of educational activities, the traffic is very crowded in this village and one of the dense the traffic in this village is education. This village has built fairly complete with educational places. In 1983 in this village there is only one place for elementary schools, the school name was IMPRES and in 1983 this village also started a school for junior high. At that time, junior high school building have not been as seen in the picture above. in the next year Gadingmangu add a place of education, so not only junior high school students are able to enter the school which was named BUDI UTOMO, but also senior high students could be absorb at this school. At that time, the school building had looked like in the photo above. The building above is a school where students BUDI UTOMO junior and senior high. In recent years Gadingmangu always accept students that exceed the quota limit and the circumstances forced the management educators from Gadingmangu to multiply and expand the area's schools. In 1997, in BUDI UTOMO there are only 18 class they are: 6 classes for the grade 1, 6 classes for the grade 2, and 6 classes for the grade 3 so bringing the total is 18 class that took place at noon. In the morning the class is used for high school students and at the time in Gadingamngu not received vocational students. In 1999 Gadingmangu founded a school for vocational students, this is an effort to accommodate students who want to study in Gadingmangu based on their expertise. and in 2000 the students who come to study in Gadingmangu growing number until finally Gadingmangu successfully increased the number of classrooms buildings for  junior, senior high school, and vocational school.

Above is a new building that is used for junior high school students and high school students alternately (in the morning for senor high students in the evening for junior high students). In this year's classes for junior high school students accounted for 25 classes with detailed, Grade 1 totaled 9 (A-I), grade 2 are 8 classes (A-H), grade 3 are 8 classes (A-H). On average, each classroom totaled 45 students. And many of the high school classroom that we have not been had time to detail the number of classes and students. Gadingmang also made some additional buildings in other locations, that distance was not far away from the main building.

This building, made for additional classrooms for high school students an increasingly in number every year. The location of the building is not far from the building above, it's located next to the boarding school gama 2 and the design of this building is a combination of kindergarten and high school. It was recently built around in late 2011 and immediately in the upstairs occupied by only high school male students and the downstairs used for kindergarten children, the rest of the class in downstairs for high school female students.

Kindergarten gadingmangu in established after junior high school building and senior high schools the main has been established, but when the exact establishment as a writer I do not know.It was formerly known as "TK Happy" and I also graduated from TK Happy, at that time it is located next to "Luhur Nurhasan Mosque" but before 2000 the name of Kindergarten was changed to "TK BUDI UTOMO" and a few years later, it was in the moved to another place till now located nearby Gama 2 boarding school.

kindergarten BUDI UTOMO join with senior high classroom.

The last school was founded in gadingmangu Vocational school UTOMO BUDI. Vocational school BUDI UTOMO established in 1999, the first buildings in use for this school is building in east Luhur Nurhasan Mosque and it only had 2 vocational or majors both are Audio Video (AV) and automotive (MO). Along with the development of this school, and then more and more students who want to study in Gadingmangu then now this vocational school of BUDI UTOMO has evolved from all points like buildings, facilities and now the major of it become more then before, previously only 2 majors but now becomes 4 they are: Audio Video engineering, fashion, engineering or automotive, and multimedia.

This is the newest building for Budi utomo Vocational school. It was built in 2011, located in Melaten kota complex this place is opposite with futsal field (futsal field is located in the northern road and locted to the south of road. In Gadingmangu, there are still many placeses of education. that have not we show and we explained the situation. we expect to be able to provide updated information and we will always try to provide news of interest to the readers of this blog.

MTI annual activity: Goes to Bali

MTI in gadingmangu has several grade levels. And the highest grade is the Bali class. Bali class is the highest class in the MTI and not all students can be placed in this class, only the selected students can join in this class.

In everydayday, each member of this class should use English in speaking or anything else, that will create English areas that could make students faster in mastering English. finally the students who have entered in this class will be invited to go to bali for their ability in speak and practice English conversation with a native speaker who happened to be on vacation to the Bali island. This class is made 3 months before departing to bali. In the choice or selection of students who can attend this class one of the requirements is that they must memorize vocabulary at least 1500. And the first month, their lesson to make sentences from vocabulary they have memorized so that it can be understood by the other person and properly according to English grammar. This activity continues to be held every after sundown for a month. Then the next month they will be in focus for practicing speaking and talking. That is a preparation for their visit to Bali will be done 2 months later. Usually English their activities in mastering conversation is in many ways such as debates, presentations, tell a story, and others.

After 3 months have passed and they have learned a lot about the conversation in English so they are ready to go to bali. Even though their visit to Bali was to meet the tourists who speak English, but they do not forget to prepare equipment includes planning the places they will visit because it could also be entertainment for the Gadingmangu students. their departure from the Jombang use buses then to enter the island of Bali they will pass through the sea using the ship and after that they came to the island of Bali. Activities that should be done by each student is carrying a notebook that is used to write the names of tourists that has been invited to talk by the students. This is as monitors that students have talked to the tourist. The things that needs to be noted is the name of interlocutors, address, their impression about (what makes them interested in Indonesia), and the last is the wisdom or facebook address and their signature.

The students and administrators travel stay in bali for 3 days. For 3 days the student was required to talk to the tourists at least 15 people. In addition, the students recommended to keep a relationship of friendship with tourists via emai, facebook, twitter, etc. although it has been separate. Activities "MTI goes to bali" is done once a year. So that not a few of the alumni BUDI UTOMO Gadingmangu was abroad, some of them worked and some of them are students.

These are some photos snippets MTI activities in bali :

These are the students who are ready to go to Bali. they usually use more than one bus to get there. students consisted of boys and girls. They always accompanied by their administrator or teacher while on a trip.

and after arriving in Bali and then they housed in a lodging which they usually visit.

 this is the lodge they stay  while in Bali. and this is the place to stay the students of MTI Gadingmangu each year when they go to Bali to practice their English. and here are some pictures of the students who have met the toutrist and talk to them in English. most of them were started with introductions and before they parted ways invite the tourist for a photo together.

MTI profile and staff

1.MTI
Has changed the name around 2008, but the goal of MTI is the same that is extra activities for students who want to master English in Gadingmangu. MTI was established since 1996, before 2008 "MTI" stands for the word "Muballigh Tugasan International" it's taken from Indonesian, in 2008 MTI has changed from "Muballigh Tugasan International" to "Media of Teaching Islam" but no different in goal that's just a name. Year after year MTI comes bigger till now.

 2. MTI teaching staff
some of the teacher is from junior high school, and the others are from vocational school and senior high school.
The following teachers are from Budi Utomo teachers staff
• Beno Prabowo Aji S.S.
• H. Maksum
• Abdul Aziz Kusaini S. Pd.
• Sutopo S. Pd.
• supriyatno S. Pd.
• Duduh Sunandar S. Pd.
• Sudrajat S. Pd.
• Evi Sulistyowati S. Pd.
• Wizard Sesulih S. Pd.
3. MTI teaching assistant
They are from students who are able to speak English and has long been at MTI most of them have entered the class of Bali.
4. MTI class division
MTI is divided into several classes start from lowest class “Pre-Elementary” to the Bali. The following are the all class in MTI start from the lowest to the highest
Pre-Elementary
Elementary
Pre-Intermediate
Intermediate
Bali
Aussie
recently MTI has create new class was called “Caberawit” to accommodate child student.

4. Daily Activities
• attend classes every day after maghrib except Thursday and Saturday.
• For students who will enter the Bali class they attend TOEFL test every day except Thursday and Saturday.
• Create and memorize sentences in English by using specific vocabulary that has been given by teaching assistant
• active in speaking English both in the room or outside the room of MTI
MTI has some additional programs that may not be mentioned here. Some additional programs aimed to improve their quality and skills in English. Among additional program the most famous is "MTI goes to Bali" This is an additional program that is very useful to measure the ability of students to speak English because they will meet real native speaker and practice their speaking. All about “MTI goes to Bali will publish in the next post.


5. Achievement of MTI

• First Winner Speech Contest throughout province of East Java in 2003, represented by Johannes Panji Christo.

• TOEIC best ratings throughout the district and Nganjuk Jombang in 2007, represented by Ferian Fauzi.

• TOEIC second rank in East Java in 2007, represented by Ferian Fauzi.

Actually there are many more achievements of BUDI UTOMO students but as the author I just write some appreciations of my friend that graduated in 2007. He was a student  from Jogja and graduate from BUDI UTOMO vocational school in 2008 and used to be close friend of mine.

Gadingmangu sport places

Gadingmangu has a unique that is a village with many facilities like a city, and other uniques for example, diverse population, densely populated and there are many places of education as it has been written in some previous posts. This time we will explore about some sport places located in the Gadingmangu village. Some of the sport places in Gadingmangu has long been built up and part of the sports venues are new. Gadingmangu provides several sports facilities located in the neighborhood Gadingmangu itself, the sports facilities which provide in Gadingmangu can be used without paying in other words, anyone in the village could use the facilities for free with  terms as specified.

Gadingmangu has almost all the sports facilities, such as: football field, basketball court, badminton, takraw field  (a kind of sports), gym, futsal court, a volleyball court. However, some sports facilities are not available gadingmangu, like a swimming pool. Probably this facility should have available in Gadingmangu but why this facility is not available yet, some of the reasons that might be true is because of the residents can still see these facilities from some village outside of the Gadingmangu village that very close distance and the cost is low too. Some of the facilities mentioned above are facilities that is needed by the Gadingmangu villagers so the above facilities should be available and some facilities that are not available might be considered not very important or that facility can still be found in several places nearby.

Here are some sports venues that are often used and may not be strange for the alumni of Gadingmangu

Basketball court in Gadingmangu

Those basketball court is not too fancy but comfortable. It has always been a sport that entertains Gadingmangu students who love basketball. As seemingly, they always come to this field when there is spare time or outside of study time. This this Field can be used by Gadingmangu boarding school students  or local residents. The basketball fans usually use this court in the afternoon. used to This field also often used for basketball match between classes, between complex even once used for a friendly match with students from other cities. And several other sports that is no stranger to former students Budi utomo Gadingmangu, such as badminton, takraw, volleyball which we will not mention the details of it or images, because this sport requires a lot of places. and so far the place is always moving in other words they always played the sport in the yard they want, by borrowing equipment and they use in the place they want.

Here we will give you some pictures of new sports venues in Gadingmangu. Gadingmangu village has built a new Gym sports facilities in 2009

.  The gym is made for realizing some of the wishes of the Gadingmangu residents. Actually the gym is planned for a long time and with a simple design, but this new gym was built in 2009 and they built a rather modern design or better than planned.  After the realized that gym many the Gadingmangu  residents follow this sport gym even though the equipment is not  complete yet, as is expected, but the spirit of the people Gadingmangu in the exercise greater. Schedule of use the gym in the morning from 7:00 to 11:00 pm and in the afternoon starting at 16:00 to 17:30. usually fans of this sport is the citizen of Gadingmangu but some Gadingmangu students also often come to this gym.

This is a newest sport was founded in Gadingmangu. This futsal field was established in mid 2012 and is currently a sports place the most often visited by citizens and students of Gadingmangu. So far It has no nicknames. this field is located at melaten city that is one of complexes in Gadingmangu.  usually timetable the use of the field, starting in the morning until near noon, then started again about 16:00 until near sunset. This field was provided for free without charge so that in use, they recommend to alternate with other player and must have some friends to use futsal field. Usually each team of 5 people and for who wanting to play futsal have to had 5 friends and the foes.

Several other sports venues that are not encountered in Gadingmangu as the pool can be found in the other village. Usually the residents or students visited the swimming pool in the village next door "Ngemplak" (a name of a village) together because not authorized. specifically for Gadingmangu students out the village without a permit so that the students usually visit the pool at Ngemplak together with friends and managers. That is situation in Gadingmangu village which is full of activities, learning, working and exercise. They are a solid community in the village as a city full of creative and educational activities.

Gadingmangu people

gadingmangu is a village located in the district jombang  the population of this village is 8000 , this does not include students entrants. Gadingmangu has a variety population, the population consists of various tribes from different islands in Indonesia. This case difficult to believe for people who have never been in the village, but for those who has ever visited this village they were surprised and always wanted to visit this village for next time. As with the author I do not know why, but the fact is true.

Gadingmangu Villagers come from different islands, starting from island of Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, even from Jayapura or Irian jaya in other words "from Sabang to Merauke". Almost all the tribes of Indonesia can be met in Gadingmangu, furthermore if plus with the students who come to the village to learn then you will meet people from all over Indonesia. If you want to know why the villagers Gadingmangu very diverse, almost all tribes in this village, this situation may be because of the average visitor who has visited this village they felt that the village is suitable for their residence so year by year Gadingmangu grow in population. Gadingmangu village is not a city like Jakarta, but the fact remains that many people want to stay in this village perhaps because they found a better atmosphere than at their previous residence, better atmosphere which is near the place of learning, setrategis environment to live, and a pluralistic society, but friendly. Even some of parents of students because so often visit their children and then see  the atmosphere in the village they are interested in live in this village. Variety of have been there evidence, that some owners of the land in gadingmangu put a price which is not rational or very expensive land prices when compared to other villages. actually some fields was not selling by the owner  they only used fields for growing rice, but so many people they insist on buying eventually they sold but the price was very expensive.

Gadingmangu residents  come from different regions even a variety of different islands but Gadingmangu people can be friendly and know each other although this does not happen instantly, but because the people understand that they come from different regions and even the island, so the difference is not a barrier for them to realize the harmony between them. Their familiarity can be seen in a variety of activities that often they do it together. Along with more and more people in Gadingmangu village until the economic locals also getting better. Because the people are so numerous and varied that they need more and more so it can be a source of income for people gadingmangu.

the residents in this village is very dense much different when compared with neighboring villages. Gadingmangu village is divided into several parts or are they more frequently said "kelompok"(complex), first this village divided into 5 parts or more known 5 complex, they are
Gadingselatan, Gading masjid or Gamas,melaten tengah,mlaten sawah.

1. Gadingselatan complex or now better known by the name "Gasel". This complex is a complex that can be said the most vibrant communities because of located close to the gama 2 boarding school and close to the grandest mosques in the district jombang, this complex also has a name "Regas" abbreviation of the word REmaja GAding Selatan they mean teenager of South GADING, but this term only be used when there is a football competition among the complex in Gadingmangu village only.

2. Gading masjid complex or better known by Gamas. this complex also a very crowded the second one after Gasel
because this complex contained gama 1 boarding school that not only accommodate male students as gama2 but also female student.

3. melaten kota or the city of mlaten. the name of the complex is based of the location, because this complex is not located near by field like other mlaten. This complex is next door to the gasel so although the situation is not as busy as the neighbor, but this complex is located in a strategic place and more known in the football team as the "satara" a play on the word "putra nusantara" these word may mean son of archipelago ,that's a name of the football team for whole gadingmangu village people.

4. melaten tengah or the middle of mlaten. This is a small complex near by melaten kota and used to join with the city mlaten and used to people just called "mlaten" before were separated. This complex is more famous for having the game of football like Barcelona and often called "swallow bird", I do not know why they call their football team as swallow bird

5. Melaten sawah.  used to this complex was also a fraction of the melaten. and because of the location closest to the field when compared to another mlaten complex, so this complex is called the melaten sawah or melaten near by fields. Recent years melaten sawah is the most compex made ​​a lot of talent and a reliable football player shown this complex in a few years ago won the adult level soccer in Gadingmangu.

MTI Budi Utomo Gadingmangu

MTI is a community created to accommodate Gadingmangu students who want to master English, whether in speaking, writing, or reading. MTI under Budi Utomo Gadingmangu educational foundation, Budi utomo is a school which was founded in Gadingmangu. MTI stands because some effort people who have a belief that a male or female students at schools gadingmangu would be very interested to join in the MTI, despite the Indonesia people has not been much interested to master English. MTI stands for the idea of one or two man which are planning a special class using English. The idea of English class came after they set up a class that uses Javanese language, that is native language of  people from East Java including Jombang. This language always learned and They made a class is to preserve their language, at that time had many young people in Gadingmangu who already do not know how to speak javanese correctly it'a funny thing there are people of Java, living together with their parents are also native of Java but they do not know how speak Javanese grammatically. Finally a class that uses Javanese language is established.

At the beginning of the founding of Java classes, then there may be 1-2 people planned the establishment of a class in the allotment for students who want to learn and master the English language.  Shortly the special class for English directly founded and running. When both classes went according to the plan of the founders, seen difference in the number of students who take the class, the Java class lot more than English class, but it is only temporary. A few days after the two-class runs, there was an oddity in the Java class, the students who attend  Javanese classes less and less. But something good happened in english class, in the begining not many student interested in this class after a few days the student increasing more and more everyday This went on in a couple of days, Javanese class followers decreases, Javanese class student decreases everyday t but the English class always increase. And after a few weeks later when the Javanese class in the survey apparently losing pupils in other words almost all gadingmangu students did not interest in the Java language class at that time in the javanese classroom was seen a teacher and a student only, it is very concernthe english class is very different after a few weeks, the participants that very little before but after a few months they are difficult to count. With this event the foundation is gadingmangu decided to eliminate the Javanese class foe a while and develop English class that already looks great and many Gadingmangu students interested in.

English class was not have a name yet. They do not specify the name and they usually just called English class. Then some teacher educators often refer to this class as the others, they call the MTI this name are taken from Indonesian "Muballigh tugasan internasional" in English it means "the teacher of the world", which means a teachers are ready to teach all over the world because of mastering english.
At that time MTI has not been officially as the name of this class. Each year, this class participants grew and finally MTI becames the official name of the english class. Due to the follower of this English class growing number so it made ​​some more classes to accommodate the students, at the begining MTI had only one class but now MTI has many class

MTI is a program conducted outside the school program, which is an additional program that specialize for students who are interested and want to master English in Gadingmangu. MTI conducted outside of school time the program start in the evening when sundown and fairly short duration, which started at about 19:00 to 20:10 or until the Adhan isyak. when MTI was popular in Gadingmangu and becomes bigger, the MTI began to organize new events that is comparative studies in some places,after the class running long enough eventually good idea appear from some teachers and MTI participants they planned tours to Bali. Because they want to know the results of what they have learned, including the ability of speaking, listening, especially when speaking with native speakers directly and they've never done this before, so the tour to bali is the solution to meet english native speaker. Until now, Bali is still a popular tourist spot for people outside of Indonesia so that there are many native speakers who come in bali, from Australia, America, and even Europe and other countries. At that time the tutors planned tour to Bali and stay there a few days because their purpose to meet some tourists and asked them to speak in English, so it takes more than one day. Currently, tour to bali activities are specific routines MTI participants, will be undertaken by the end of the school year and they usually stay approximately 3 to 4 days.

Gadingmangu MTI goal is one, it is to educate the students to be students with extra ability in languages the international language especially English. Though the duration of time to meet with the teachers are very short but their daily activities are very supporting in mastering the English quickly. they are in a room and talk everyday in English, its necessary not everyone allowed speak indonesian. Not only that the students who had been in "bali class" (this is a class name for students who are ready to go to Bali and their daily lessons, only about speaking)  they also are given the right to teach new students in MTI, so they could study how to teach  they are given the right to teaching the new students This is the key to success Gadingmangu students in mastering English. That's why Gadingmangu students successfully in mastering the English.

Haorpon Gadingmangu

Haorpon September 2012

 Recent activities Gadingmangu always be a news awaited by the alumni who are spread across Indonesia. As usual Gadingmangu always create new events to enhance the spirit of their students. At the end of  2011 Gadingmangu made an event which was named HAORPON. HAORPON is an abbreviation of "HAri OlaRraga PONdok" it's a sentence taken from Indonesian, in english  the sentence could mean "boarding school sports day in Gadingmangu". if viewed from the name HAORPON is a day for the sport in Gadingmangu boarding school, but in fact this is not just regular sports day because in Gadingmangu available many areas for exercise that facilitated by the Gadingmangu village Governing so students who want to exercise they very flexibility in choosing their preferred sport. in Gadingmangu Almost all kinds of sports facilities are available free of charge, such as: basketball, badminton, takraw (a mix between football and volleyball), fitness area, and even indoor soccer field that totally free, and they can use the facility above whenever there is free time or holidays. HAORPON different from the above sports activities because haorpon have different intents and purposes, certainly when viewed from names such as regular exercise but more than sports because HAORPON followed by all students of the boarding school Gadingmangu together with the teachers used to give knowledge to them. HAORPON has many purposes, the main goal is to increase the familiarity of the teachers with the students in Gadingmangu.

In the beginning HAORPON was made to introduce the young teachers and new teachers to the students, It was held after the walk together. Usually held in the grounds or in the building of Gadingmangu boarding school that began with the opening of the presenters and continued by a speech from the coach or the head of the Gadingmangu boarding school, there are usually some additional events or distraction and before the end of the event, was introduction of young teachers or new to the the students.

In the last few months in 2012 HAORPON better known as the interesting event or be a good entertainment for male and female students Gadingmangu because the show is more interesting than ever. HAORPON usually carried on in the fifth or once in five month on last Sunday. In 2012 HAORPON more distinct in terms of events and more attractive. Here are the photos we have taken from activity HAORPON on sunday 30th september 2012.

and these photographs haorpon activities, such as previous months haorpon always begins with a walk along normally one group is lead or supervised by two teachers

Gadingmangu male student in Haorpon

This is a photo Gadingmangu students who were out of the Luhur mosque courtyard. women students usually go first and then followed by the male students. usually the route past 3 to 4 neighboring villages. several neighboring villages that usually used as the route are Kalangan ,Pedes, Sembung, Plumpung those are the name of Gadingmangu neighboring villages

Haorpon participants usually walk a few kilo meters towards the north of Gadingmangu village and then at the half way usually they have a rest in a few minutes and eat some snack and some water that is given by commission, but they will not rest for too long because there's a next event will be held

 These are some photos when students and teachers break on the way. This place is in kalangsemanding village adjacent to the pedes village. above is a picture of the students and some of the young teachers who are still single, in the previous haorpon these teachers was introduced to the students.


In september 2012, haorpon activity is very different from previous Haorpon. Usually they continue walking as son as after the break and enjoy a snack that had been given by their committee, they usually return to the basketball court where they go at the beginning, but this time is different, they not continue walking, they not return to the starting place they even put up the stage and sound system. Final event of Haorpon usually held in the building or on the basketball court that is next to the Luhur nurhasab mosque but the committee makes a new atmosphere they hold the last event of Haorpon outdoor. the event was held at the stage was door prize event so for anyone who's lucky will receive prize.

Below are some photos we took from the last event.

    

Gadingmangu boarding school

Gadingmangu boarding school for female student

Gadingmangu boarding school established in 1951 and inauguration in1952, gadingmangu boarding school has a long history, some I have written on the title of the post a brief history of GadingMangu. It's a boarding school located in Gadingmangu Village in Jombang. Gadingmangu boarding school divided into 2 place and with different name because of the location of different places, The first building called Gama1 and second one called Gama2
1. gama 2 is short for Gadingmangu2 located close to the Luhur nurhasan mosque and this boarding school (Gama 2) is only accepting or only able to accommodate male students, Gama2 can accommodate about 800 Students. Gama2 divided into 2 buildings commonly known by building A and building B

2. Gama1. this boarding school was named to the gama1 because was established first before Gama2. Gama1 formerly known as "Gadingmangu boarding schools"  because no Gama2 at the moment, then after the second boarding school built  to make it easier called with Gama1, and the second building is called the Gama2. Gama1 located on the north of the Luhur mosque, approximately 300m from Gama2, Gama 1 was alongside Antiq mosque  that is the first mosque built in the Gadingmangu village. Gama 1 is also divided into two parts: the first building for female students people used to call "Gama1 puteri", and the second one for the male students and better known as "gama1 putera". Gama1 puteri  used to only be occupied and entered by the female students, male of the students entered is prohibited. Gama 1 puteri can accommodate about 300 Students every year. and for gama 1putra can accommodate more than 300 Students every year  not as much as the number of male students in the Gama2 the capacity of this boarding school is 2 fold more because 2 building only contain male student, If counted all the students gadingmangu from both places and gama2 gama1 totaled 1400.

actually number of male and female students who come to study at the Gadingmangu boarding school more numerous of the number mentioned above. In every new school year in Gadingmangu, the number of students who come to the village of gadingmangu always expand and grow, at least there are 70% Students rejected for study in gadingmangu every year. This is not because Gadingmangu selecting strictly to the students or female students who wish to enter the boarding school in Gadingmangu, but the cause is insufficient, so that the students who arrived later did not have a place to stay while studying or the quota is met. Because there is no place to accommodate students then they had to to go back home. some of students in gadingmangu are choose not to be at the pesantren place although at the same purpose, in other words they rented room in a house owned by local people and they are willing to pay the appropriate fee as specified by the owner of the house, this cost usually in combination with the cost of meals every day. live outside the boarding school or called rented room, this happens because the space provided at the pesantren place is full so that it becomes an alternative and they can still take part as is generally the students in boarding school.

Gadingmangu is the most boarding school enjoy by the alumni who have been stay in Gadingmangu few years, compared with to other pesantren this is proved by the alumni who had left the Gadingmangu
, When they moved to another pesantren in order to continue and deepen they knowledge, after they moved in the pesantren they feel its difference with boarding school in Gadingmangu. Some of them say "I miss the atmosphere of Gadingmangu" and some of them when home sickness they say "I do not feel at home in this pesantren I feel like going to Gadingmangu". Though Gadingmangu not their home, but when they home sickness, they remember about Gadingmangu. It is a fact, which are said by some of my friends who had been living in boarding school of Gadingmangu.

Gadingmangu has been around since the 1952 And has graduated thousands and even hundreds of thousands of students.The students have spread throughout homeland of Indonesia and even foreign countries. Gadingmangu boarding school has a commitment to educate their students in order to become a professional in every way and have good character or moral so that the students always accepted by society, in fact they are the preferred by people from other countries because of their mind and character and has always respectful of others and so many alumni who excel in a particular field. Graduates of Gadingmangu many who work and become an important person in another State because, the boarding school of gadingmangu also provided supplies foreign language to the students, especially english special even English, they provide the media and special community with hope "any students who take this course can master english". This is what makes the alumni of Ponpes Gadingmangu always ready to Go international. And has been proven many alumni who are abroad even they become a resident of that Country. Gadingmangu boarding school Alumni has spread in 32 Countries, include: Australia, America and some other country.

This year (2012) gadingmangu boarding school has been visited by 4000 of  prospective students, but the amount can only be received is 1400 students so that about 2600 not able to live and study in Gadingmangu boarding school and they had to return home with disappointment but most of them chose stay in gadingmangu to study in other word they find a homestay, live with the owner of the house. therefore the boarding school of Gadingmangu started and are already making plans to expand the education in order to accommodate the students who want to study in Gadingmangu and treat the disappointment of the candidates that have been rejected. In 2012 Gadingmangu have started setting up new buildings, and located not far from the buildings that already are.

About me

My name is alex jackson mahendra I used to be called alex, I come from Jombang district, I am a teacher of religion in the district Jombang. I love to fill my free time in front of the computer and itmust often go online to obtain the files or application is needed for computer and finally I was interested to make the web, blogs on the internet.
from now I started to like writing articles. I just write a little bit article on some of my blogs, but in my article that I wrote is very useful for those of you who read because I do not like writing articles that only important commercially. I started writing a few articles on free blogs like blogspot and wordpress. In my opinion free blog or paid it does not matter to develop our creativity or our hobby because, I do not know much about the science of blogging so I think make a free blog for beginners is very appropriate. I know that the top level domain looks more professional, but I thought, why create a blog with TLD but have not mastered the science of blogging? But do not worry for the visitors of this blog even though I created a blog using blogspot free this time I want to maintain the content of this blog, I would present all in English.
Actually, this blog address that are still not seemingly professional domain names. I prepared all info about GadingMangu complete. Because alumni that have been so much and are located throughout the homeland of Indonesia and foreign countries. And I know that from some of the alumni was looking forward about the latest information about the changes and developments in Gadingmangu that are more familiar called "Gading".

In this blog content and layout is my own work as the owner of the blog, but I always ask for advice on a couple of colleagues who can give progress this blog. I realized I was not a true webmaster because I began to understand about blogging in early 2012 around the month of April and at that time I felt very difficult to explore the science of blogging. Indeed, at that time I already have a laptop but have not been able to buy a modem so I just did a internet activities in the cafe, it is definitely a lot of cost, and I also attended training on the website a few months later, then I began to know much about blogging or website, but just as insightful because it was only 2 days of training and the internet connection a lot of interference so I often missed the lesson. Then from the training I started know much about that, then I tried to buy a modem that cost about 200 thousand rupiahs. I began to study and learn more on the subject matter which has been given the training by re-reading the e-book that has been given, but I feel lack so I was looking through the search engines and I began to understand a lot even though I get by way of self-taught or read through web-site that I found through google seach engine.

I'm sure though knowledge I got it on average through search engine I could make this blog contain professional. Whatever you are looking for about Gadingmangu will be available in this blog. I will make this blog look simple but easy to use and I will always try to beautify this blog accordance with the development the future, and did not rule out the name of this blog I will change it to a top level domain. It is my goal in building this blog, but it will take time be required.

If some of you have seen a lot of blogs that already contains information and news about Gadingmangu not to say that this blog is bandwagon. Actually before I made this blog I've made a blog titled Nuansa story which contains the story of exemplary, but when the blog know by my friend, he said why don't you create a blog that contains about Gadingmangu instead. Why he asked me to make a blog about Gadingmangu? the reason is many blogs that discuss about Gadingmangu was not complete that is, their blogs only discuss the parts of Gadingmangu such as a blog only contain about vocational school in Gadingmangu or junior high school and so on. So my friend suggested me to make this blog. This is a hard and difficult job for me but I am sure Insha Allah I can realize this and I ask the help of all parties about what to develop this blog.

Luhur Nurhasan Mosque

Luhur Nurhasan mosque is the largest mosque in the city of jombang, this mosque is about 50 meters width and long. Gadingmangu not just as a place where the students learn, but it also has the largest mosque in the district jombang. according to research from 2002 until now (in 2012) have not been encountered a mosque that exceeds the size of the mosque Luhur Nurhasan in jombang. Actually, this mosque was built in 1987 and was inaugurated by  But in ... the mosque was enlarged size and beautified shape. Used to mosque has only one tower that is the biggest tower and to beautify the mosque was added 4 towers without throwing an existing tower and now as seen in the photo above. This mosque spent more than ... just to enlarge and beautify the form of the mosque, this mosque is also the most expensive mosque in the making in Jombang, each door of this mosque for 45 million rupiahs at the time, and this mosque has 21 doors, and like in the picture green marble tile around the walls of the mosque and downstairs are full with a thick and smooth marble. Nurhasan nurhasan's mosque is one of the symbol of the beauty and crowd of village gadingmangu because this mosque can be seen for the travelers who cross the highway Perak. This mosque is very beautiful when seen from a considerable distance, and looks magnificent when viewed from a short distance. This mosque is can be a very beautiful view when seen at night because equipped with night lights on the outer wall of the mosque. Gadingmangu is a place that often visited by government agencies such as MUI, Parliament and others, and the their first visit when they come to the village gadingmangu is luhur Nurhasan's mosque. Right next to the mosque, there are some places that is used as a place to entertain guests and there is also a regular spot as a place to entertain VIP. The last few years so many visits from some of the guests from the Indonesian government, including the head of DPR RI  (a council representatives or Parliament chairman in Indonesia).
mosque is also be a place for alumni to visit and for the visitor who plan to school in Gadingmangu. many of them are take pictures with this mosque as a background, even they record activity around this mosque for their video documentation.
Actually, there are many mosques in gadingmangu besides this big mosque. In this village there are nine mosques, the mosques are located in each complex that is in Gadingmangu. The mosques have different names, such as:
1. Al-barokah mosque. This mosque is located in "mlakot complex" it's more like housing. Mlakot is short for mlaten kota in English could be called the city of mlaten. This mosque is the closest location of the Luhur nurhasan mosque and one of the major mosques in the village Gadingmangu.

2. Antiq Mosque . According to the history, this mosque standed first than Luhur nurhasan mosque. This mosque is located in the complex Gadingmasjid or more often called Gamas. Basically, this mosque is a mosque belonging boarding of Gadingmangu such Luhur Nurhasan mosque, just that in Gamas complex  and here is Gama1 boarding located ,the boarding school that stood earlier than Gama2 boaridng.

3. Mlasa mosque or usually people say "golden dome mosque". This mosque is the a new mosque (renewal) in Gadingmangu and is located in Mlaten sawah. In fact, this mosque has long existed but a few years ago this mosque newly upgraded and more known by golden dome mosque, although it is not real gold dome (we telling the truth not to comment) this mosque is also the fourth largest mosque  after Al-barokah mosque which is located in melakot
three mosques that we mentioned above are classified as large mosques but there are some mosques that we have not mentioned in sequence after the large mosques on top, but we will give you some photos of the mosque that is in Gadingmangu.

a brief history of GadingMangu

"A city in the village" that is people saying who have visited and seen the state of the GadingMangu village. GadingMangu is a village in the district Jombang. The population is so diverse from almost homeland Indonesia can be found in this village. Who thought that gadingmangu now as people know, used to this village was residents deserted village even many homeowners left that village for many reasons, it is said there is a saying "Gadingmangu untouched by humans so much, its scary environment". Indeed, in that moment GadingMangu was not like you've seen now, used to there were many fields and lots of bamboo trees around the GadingMangu village, when it rains this village such as ponds or pools very muddy. even worse many people (villagers) they wanted to sell their land that in GadingMangu village to everyone who wanted to buy with a fairly cheap price and then move to another  region and left the village. But already become destiny this village will be a places that's visited by students who want to learn more on religious knowledge and general knowledge although several years ago GadingMangu was a village that many people feared even the original people of the village.

But Gadingmangu village will be turned into an educational center if built by an intelligent and brave. And at the moment there is no one who can change the state of Gadingmangu, and once again, it was the destiny of a deserted village residents will be a busy village, that visited by people throughout Indonesia and even from around the world. Time passed, and eventually smart and brave kid born he was not a native gadingmangu, he was from Kediri  the neighboring town of Jombang. From childhood he had been seen that figure is a genius child. Proven in time he learned very quickly in master of science even his teacher surprised with his intelligence. when he has mastered the science of his teacher he was not satisfied and moved to another place to seek more knowledge in his country. Even when he felt has mastered all of science in Indonesia and he did not see a place that gives science a more he decided to go to another country in order to deepen and broaden his knowledge.

 while abroad he also very fast in mastering sciences that he learned until he would be recruited by the State, but he felt that Indonesia requires knowledge he had, although at that time the Indonesian people did not understand a lot of how important of knowledge, especially the people from his city. After studying abroad in the country for several years, he decided to return to his beloved homeland Indonesia.
Upon his return to Indonesia, he had a desire to create a place of education in visited by students who want to gain knowledge and establish good moral personality. But the desire was still far from reality. He tried to share knowledge to local people, but not many of them understand the importance of sciences, not only that he did not have a partner to realize the desire of the day, he could never get it in a short time, and the spirit of people to gain knowledge was still very alarming. But he did not give up he had a conviction "if the ideal is taken seriously and the courage it will succeed", and he said "a great aspiration will not be successful if held by a timid person or a pessimist". With this conviction he was sure to find the path of success.

Long story short after he teached about science that he has learned so far and in teaching his knowledge in an uncertain (moved around) because not having his own place. He finally got a male friend who happens to live in the village gadingmangu. His friends know about his good wishes. And his friend suggested that he settle down and realize his wishes in Gadingmangu. his friends were ready to help provide places and funding if he wanted to settle down and realized his wishes in Gadingmangu. He felt that his dream will come true because of the success already seen.

Now he's moved to a new village and he had never previously live in the village (Gadingmangu) and he began to struggle in the village. Not as easy as it was to build gadingmangu to be like now, but need a lot of sacrifice and struggle. Because of his persistence in the struggle, and because he had mastery of knowledge more and more students who come to Gadingmangu vilage to study.
  He has a desire to establish boarding school in Gadingmangu so gadingmanu become an educational center as he wanted. Finally he and his colleagues managed to accommodate students who wish to boarding school. although only a few students and still junior high and the school is still borrow another school places, which is owned by SD IMPRES (a name of elementary school). The students attend school in the afternoon because the morning in use for primary schools. After a few months he and colleagues eventually succeeded in establishing the school, not just a high school junior, but also even the kindergarten and two cottages that are now more commonly known as Gama1 and Gama2. Originally gadingmangu cottage is gama1, because his male and female students more and more, eventually stood second cottage and is now more commonly known as Gama 2.
At that time he was already getting old but he's still in the spirit of fostering his students. And at that Gadingmangu is widely known everywhere, it's much different when compared with the first gadingmangu situation, now incoming students each year is increasing. And not long after in old age he left the village Gadingmangu forever. He died when Gadingmangu village familiar as "University town" though is actually a village, "city in the village" was greeting people who have visited village Gadingmangu.

this picture was taken from northward that still many rice field, actually the photographer in a house when taking this picture. there are some house in the northern part of Gadingmangu village.