Yuni Shara, a transgender woman, puts on a sarong before praying at an Islamic boarding school for transgender women in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Sept. 23, 2018. Kanupriya Kapoor / Reuters file ...

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — Shinta Ratri, the matron of an Indonesian Islamic boarding school, corrects the pronunciation of a group of fellow Muslims as they chant the phrase “only one God” in ...

The 48-year-old set up the school in late 2019 after befriending several deaf people and realising they had no access to Islamic education. It now hosts 115 deaf boys and girls from across the ...

Darul Uloom Islamic school is a £3,000-a-year boarding school that was established in 1988 to produce ‘great scholars and Huffaz (people who have memorised the Koran) to preserve and transmit ...

JAKARTA, May 3 (Reuters) - In a rented three-storey building in Jakarta, Indonesian cleric Halim Ambiya has built his own Islamic boarding school that aims to help street youth return to the faith.

At an Islamic boarding school in a sleepy neighbourhood on the outskirts of the Indonesian city Yogyakarta, the sound of Koranic recitation is nowhere to be heard. This is a religious school for ...