Abstract
Significant development of pesantren over t he years become evident of interest and attraction of Indonesian people to the Islamic education. Until now the number of pesantren in Indonesia has reached 27.218 pesantrens scattered throughout the Indonesian archipelago. The existence of pesantren since its construct until today has contributed in various aspects of human development. Not only a religious science development institutions (tafaqquh fi al-din) that is focused internally, but also pay attention to the environment that kept submissive to people with its commitment (amar ma’ruf nahi munkar) in some form of character education. Therefore, pesantren are in the center of comunity who are born of the people by the people and for the people. So that education and orientation of pesantren can never be separated from society. This paper will discuss how pesantren, especially Pondok Modern Darussalam Gontor Ponorogo Indonesia still exist and contribute to the development of human resources.