The Importance of Religious Education in the Digital Era

Nowadays the world has begun to develop into a digital era, everything can be accessed very easily. This can have both positive and negative impacts, because if not given an understanding of digitalization there will be many people who abuse it. In the digital era like today, the younger generation must be given an understanding of managing information and using it properly and correctly, because if they are not accompanied or given direction towards the internet world, it is feared that unwanted things will happen such as using the internet and misusing it in negative ways.

This can be handled with religious education, because religion teaches to do the truth and stay away from evil. With religious education everyone can know the right thing and the wrong thing, this understanding can be applied in the digital era as it is today, so that everyone can take advantage of the ease of getting information such as for learning, doing research, and knowing the development of the world.

The religious education that can be applied such as:

1.         Enter Pesantren

Pesantren is a place to learn religious knowledge so that everyone can understand religious rules that are prohibited and can be applied to daily life. Pesantren education also educates so that students are not addicted to playing gadgets because when pesantren are prohibited from using gadgets so that students can focus on learning in pesantren.

2.         Following the Study with Ustadz

Often held studies of ustadz held in famous mosques, by following these studies we can deepen religion and can distinguish which is right and which is wrong.

So, religious education is very important in this digital era, because by studying religious knowledge we know the right thing and the wrong thing and this can be applied to everyday life so that we avoid the negative impact of wild information and can use it on the right path.