Indonesian Islamic universities are absorbing generative AI with no governance framework at all

A study published in MURAJA'AH: Journal of Islamic Studies examines how Indonesia's Perguruan Tinggi Keagamaan Islam — its Islamic religious higher education institutions — are absorbing generative AI with no governance framework in place at all. The paper identifies three structural drivers: the Ministry of Religious Affairs, which oversees these institutions, sits outside the national AI policy process entirely; no binding regulation exists specific to religious higher education; and probabilistic AI output sits awkwardly against a sanad- and ijazah-grounded epistemology, where knowledge is transmitted through verified chains of authority rather than statistical inference. The finding matters beyond Indonesia: wherever religious educational authority runs on a licensing and lineage system, a tool that generates plausible-sounding answers with no chain of transmission is not a neutral convenience — it is a direct challenge to how legitimacy is established. Institutions that get ahead of this with explicit policy, rather than ad hoc tolerance or ad hoc bans, will be the ones still trusted with the question in five years.

This is a QeRN summary by Ahmed Qerni. Read the original at MURAJA'AH: Journal of Islamic Studies: https://cabiskarya.com/murajaah/en/article/view/55.