Modeling the social, economic and environmental effects of Pondok Tahfiz

Abstract

This paper aims to model the social, economic and environmental (SEE) impacts of Pondok Tahfiz in Kelantan. The basic principle of a sustainable development paradigm lies in three aspects; namely social, economic, and environmental. These aspects guide the management of human use of resources so that any development project may yield the greatest sustainable benefits or positive impacts to present generations while maintaining the ability to meet the needs of future generations. Pondok tahfiz is the orthodox Islamic school institution that focus on Islamic education learning. Presently, the institution is highly demanded among Muslim Malaysian as they believe the institution provides some benefits in future. The three aspects of SEE are commonly used as dimensions for measuring impacts of sustainable development of Pondok tahfiz. Through this, SEE is able to acquire indirect and direct impacts of education institute towards social, economy and environment. The findings indicate that all the dependent variables provide a significant impact towards sustainable development of pondok tahfiz. However, the economic development provides less impact for the sustainable development.