Pesantren acceptance of new things while maintaining the old things on good terms (ashlah) in the perspective of religion and the needs of the people, making the boarding able to survive and align with existing developments, able to dissect new values by using the yellow book reference. Including in responding to issues of state, social politics, human rights, socio-cultural diversity and democracy. This novelty, in the tradition of boarding must have undergone an in-depth study process in the form of bahtsul masail with references to the yellow books. This study uses a qualitative approach with descriptive methods, while data collection techniques using observation, interviews and documentation, with the study of the principal theory of management of George R. Terry covers planning, organizing, implementing and evaluating, which is carried out at al-barkah Islamic boarding school, al-hasbi, al-riyadh in cianjur regency. The results showed that at every stage of management is implemented properly. Planning begins with determining the needs and objectives of the boarding school, conducting observation and research on a problem, setting a plan of choice, determining the method and evaluation of the plan is carried out with various elements of the boarding school. Organizing is carried out by preparing the organizational structure, determining the tasks and functions of each structure, filling the structure with personnel who have the ability, and socializing it to the general public so that at any time it can be seen who should do what. The implementation phase records the implementation of democratic education that is able to arouse critical thinking of students and implementation in everyday life. Control phase, boarding has been able to evaluate the success and targets by sticking to the standard indicators that have been agreed in the planning. The evaluation was carried out through a meeting attended by all boarding residents, containing discussions about the effects of the program, its effectiveness, sustainability in the future and changes that may be made. Furthermore, in the curriculum of boarding education, the term Democratic education is not explicitly stated, but the spirit, values, ideas, perceptions and practices of democracy actually manifest in the daily life of the pesantren, such as the building of the spirit of cooperation in the learning process of students, appreciation for fellow students and teachers, cleric and kyai, as well as the election of the head of students regularly occurs in the daily life of the boarding and has a great and meaningful influence on the development of students. Then it can be mentioned as the hidden curriulum, the curriculum that is definitively described as various aspects of the boarding school outside the curriculum studied; such as organizational aspects, social and cultural systems, but able to influence changes in values, perceptions and behavior of students.