Penguatan Moderasi Beragama melalui Forum Persaudaraan Lintas Iman (Forsa) Kabupaten Banyumas pada Masa Pandemi Covid 19

Abstract

The young generation of the millennial era is a generation that has the challenges of digital modernization, especially in maintaining religious harmony. The rise of the social media context tends to be intolerant, contains hate speech, and hoaxes that can be easily accessed by the younger generation can create a character of intolerance and radicalism in the Pandemic Covid-19 situations. To overcome this problem, the General Soedirman University Community Service team partnered with the Banyumas Interfaith Brotherhood Forum (Forsa) to organize digital media literacy workshops and religious moderation practices in the community. The method used is public education. The form of the activity consisted of eight sessions, namely pre-test, the material on diversity, the material on religious moderation, the material on religious phenomena on social media, training on digital literacy media content analysis, post-test, reflection on restraint through field practice, and moderation oration via on-air radio media. The result of this activity is an increase in participants' understanding and skills in understanding religious diversity and sorting good content on social media.