Islamic education in Indonesia strategically forms intellectually, morally, and spiritually superior human resources, yet faces globalization, corruption, and poverty challenges. This study identifies local Islamic education challenges from education politics perspective and formulates effective, equitable, sustainable policies. Using library research with descriptive qualitative method through five stages: source identification, data collection, data analysis, interpretation-synthesis, and report preparation. Analysis uses content analysis with thematic coding, comparative analysis, and interpretive synthesis. Results show globalization provides positive technological impacts but brings foreign culture shifting Islamic values; corruption hinders management and reduces education quality; poverty causes limited access and low participation. These factors interconnect with significant impacts. The study formulates six policies: strengthening adaptive curriculum, improving educator quality, strengthening character and integrity education, equalizing access, developing community empowerment-based education, and strengthening government-institution-society cooperation. Keywords: Islamic Education, Education Politics, Globalization, Corruption, Poverty
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