page_title: Jamiat Kheir
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Jamiat Kheir / Activity / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Habib Abubakar bin Ali Shahab
context_page_description: Jamiat Kheir is one of a few early private institutions in Indonesia that is engaged in education, and is instrumental in the history of Indonesian struggle against Dutch colonialism, preceding Sarekat Islam and Budi Utomo. It is headquartered in Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta.
context_section_description: The first board of Jamiat Kheir as an education foundation initially consists of (all names spelled as they are originally written in the Van Ophuijsen spelling, e.g., Said instead of Sayyid or Syed, Aboebakar instead of Abubakar, Moehamad instead of Muhammad):
  Said Aboebakar bin Mohammad bin Abdulrachman Alhabsi (the Chairman)
  Said Aboebakar bin Abdullah bin Achmad Alatas (First Vice Chairman)
  Said Idroes bin Ahmad bin Mohamad Sjahab (Second Vice Chairman)
  Said Hoesain bin Ahmad bin Hoesin bin Semit (First Secretary)
  Said Moehamad bin Ahmad bin Hoesin bin Semit (Second Secretary)
  Said Salim bin Tahir bin Saleh Alhabsi (First Treasurer)
  Said Abdulqadir bin Hasan bin Abdulrachman Molagela (Second Treasurer)
  The commissioners:
  Said Ali bin Abdulrachman bin Abdullah Alhabsi
  Said Alwi bin Tahir Alhadad
  Said Alwi bin Mochamad bin Tahir Alhadad
  Said Ahmad bin Abdullah bin Mochsin Assegaf
  Said Jahja bin Oesman bin Jahja
  Said Abdullah bin Aboebakar bin Salim Alhabsi
  Said Hasjim bin Mohamad bin Hasjim Alhabsi
  Said Hasan bin Sech Assolabiah Alaidroes
  Said Abdoellah bin Moehamad Alhadad
  Said Aloei bin Abdullah bin Hoesin Alaijdroes
  Said Tahir bin Hoesin bin Semit
  Sjech Salim bin Achmad bin Djoenet Bawazir
  Said Abdulrachman bin Abdilla bin Abdulrachman Alhabsi
  Said Ali bin Aloei bin Abdulrachman Alhabsi
  Said Abdullah bin Mohamad bin Achmad bin Hasan Alatas
  The first headmaster of the Jamiat Kheir school was Habib Abūbakar bin ʻAli Shahāb who was also one of the founders of The Jamiat Kheir Education Foundation. He was also the writer of his autobiography, رحلة الأصفر (RIHLATUL ASHFAR). He was born in Batavia on October 24, 1870 CE (or 28 Rajab 1287 AH) and died in Batavia on March 18, 1944 (23 Rabi' al-thani 1363 AH) and was buried in the Tanah Abang cemetery, Jakarta. His father is ʻAli bin Abūbakar bin ʻUmar bin ʻAli bin ʻAbdullah bin Shahāb born in Dammun, a small village near Tarim, Hadhramaut. His mother is  Muznah binti Said Naum, the daughter of the land endowment (Arabic: الوقف التربه‎, romanized: al-Waqf al-Turbah) foundation founder Shaikh Said Na'um.
  The school board of Jamiat Kheir, having noticed that the facility in Pekojan could no longer able to accommodate the flow of prospective students which increased every year, excited to find a new larger location. Initially they planned to move Jamiat Kheir from Pekojan to a new location on Karet Weg street in Tanah Abang, but because the venue was planned for a hospital by the Dutch government (now it is occupied as the Puskesmas of Tanah Abang), with the initiative of  Abūbakar bin Muḥammad al-Habshi (the Chairman of the board) in 1923, the Foundation bought a new 3,000 square metres (32,000 sq ft) land for the school. The building has been used as the center of operations until now.
  With the initiative of Aḥmad bin ʻAbdullah al-Saggaf in 1924, a building for boarding students often called Internaat was built. The purpose of  the Internaat was to protect, to educate and to familiarize the students with good Islamic traditions. The cost was determined 30 guilders a month. At internaat, they were directed and guided in order to fill their time with any good activities for the soul and body. The Jamiat Kheir's Internaat was opened on May 15, 1924 by occupying two houses on the Jalan Karet number 72. On March 26, 1929, the foundation made another attempt to buy a 2,500 square metres (27,000 sq ft) plot of land in Kebun Melati which later used as girls-only Elementary School.
  Because there was the law forbidding Jamiat Kheir to open school branches in other cities with the same name, people then established schools with different names (although sametimes similar, especially in Arabic) but with the same spirit and most of them affiliated with the Jamiat Kheir in Batavia, such as al-Jamʻiyyah al-Khairīyah al-ʻArabiyah in Ampel, al-Mu’awanah in Cianjur, al-ʻArabiyah al-Islamiyah in Banyuwangi, and Shama'il Huda in Pekalongan. The Shama'il Huda school in Pekalongan was led by Muḥammad al-ʻIdroos. Like Jamiat Kheir, this school also hired teachers from the Middle East such as Shaikh
caption: Habib Abūbakar bin ʻAli Shahāb, the first principal of Jamiat Kheir
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