Peran Mahasiswa Pendidikan Agama Islam dalam Membangun Moderasi Beragama Melalui Sikap Bijak Bermedia Sosial

Abstract

The dynamics of today’s digital disruption pose serious challenges to the harmony of Indonesia’s multicultural society. Social media, which is essentially a tool for socialisation, is often reduced to a space for polarisation and hate speech, and even serves as a vehicle for spreading extreme fundamentalist ideologies. In response to these anomalies in religious discourse within the digital sphere, this article aims to comprehensively examine the strategic role of Islamic Religious Education (PAI) students as catalysts for religious moderation through the articulation of prudent social media behaviour. Through a qualitative approach based on a literature review and descriptive analysis, the findings of this study indicate that PAI students hold crucial authority as agents of change and guardians of religious morality in the digital sphere. They do not merely act passively to filter misinformation amidst a crisis of digital literacy, but are called upon to proactively reconstruct narratives of humanistic Islam across platforms by internalising the pillars of Tawazun, Tawassut, I’tidal, and Amar Ma’ruf Nahi Munkar. This movement is further fostered through institutional synergy, particularly by strengthening discourse via the House of Religious Moderation within the PTKIN ecosystem. It is concluded that the resilience of interfaith harmony is strongly underpinned by the transformative capabilities of PAI students in reclaiming social media spaces; transforming them from arenas of ideological division into a dialectical ecosystem characterised by tolerance, peace and civility.