The impact of IAIN to UIN conversion towards the development of Islamic sciences and university management in Indonesia

In the last one a half decade, there is a basic changing of the relation between religion and sciences construction. The appearance of the sinergity between religious and secular knowledge’s has caused many paradigm changes in developing Islamic knowledge’s tradition. The emergence of ‘Knowledges Tree’ concept, ‘integrative–interconective’ concept, Interdiscipliners study, and Integrated Twin-Tower are the new concepts of the development which have influenced the existence of IAIN/STAIN to UIN conversion. The most discussed issue is that Islamic sciences only focused on ortodoksi by empowering high traditions more than ‘ortopraksi’. From the mentioned issue, the conversion of IAIN/STAIN to UIN has raised. In that changing reality, the scientific development of UIN becomes more enthusiastic. The enthusiasm can also be seen through the institutional development. This study describes many big changes in four UIN. Those are UIN Jakarta, UIN Yogyakarta, UIN Makasar and UIN Pekanbaru. Although the institutional changes transmite many problems such as a lack of devotees of Islamic scientific field which creates no significant distinction between UIN graduates and general university graduates. Those problems become a challenge for UIN development in the future.