Abstract:
In the beginning of the 20th century, West Kalimantan had a number of social issues, especially in the
context of religious moderation. Both individuals and groups claim one another as being the most proper ones.
Fom that condition, a negative impact occurred on social order in society. Observing to this situation, Muhammad
Basiuni Imran, the Maharaja Imam to the Kingdom of Sambas, initiated a meeting of Islamic religious leaders
and priests for the Western part of Borneo. This work is based on research conducted on manuscripts that
recorded the speeches of West Kalimantan religious leaders and priests (alim ulama) in the meeting. Considering
that this study is aimed at exploring the manuscripts, to approach the issue the authors employ philology that
includes the inventory of manuscripts, identification of origins, compiling descriptions, making text summaries,
and finally presenting messages of religious moderation education in the related texts. This study successfully
concludes that those Islamic manuscripts of Sambas in West Kalimantan, including the manuscript by Maharaja
Imam Sambas are on the end of extinction due to ages of century. The text is full of messages of religious
moderation education as seen in the principle of flexibility and renewal (tajdîd), the principle of ease (taysîr), and
the principle of tolerance (tasâmuh). Finally, the madrasa founded by Maharaja Imam Sambas is as among the
oldest Islamic education institution that promotes religious moderation in West Kalimantan.
