Fostering Religious Moderation’s Perception in the 4.0 Era: Citizenship Education Challenge

Abstract

Citizenship education and religious moderation intersect in state life aspect. Citizenship education that concerned in establishment citizen character both informal and formal institution, has a role to control the development of 4.0 Industrial Revolution so it can keep along with national identity. Then, the emergence of religious moderation term, which was initiated by Indonesian Ministry of Religious Affairs, marked the need to improve implementation of religious values by internalizing the understanding or perception about the difference. As this world's public space today tends to be dominated by radicalism, political identity, and exclusivity. Formulation of the problem in this study is "How to fostering religious moderation perception in the 4.0 industrial revolution era through citizenship education?". The method in this research is Systematic Literature Review (SLR). The results of this literature research show that citizenship practice changes as fast as technological developments occur. Perspective of citizens in participating becomes more open especially on social media platforms. This openness can be utilized for disseminated of religious moderation by digital platform. Citizenship education needs to develop themselves by delivering learners to a comprehensive awareness of diversity and Indonesia with the authenticity of Bhinneka Tunggal Ika. In the end, the understanding of religious moderation in citizenship education needs to be implanted along with efforts to fostering tolerant attitude in a multicultural education and tolerance education. Way of thinking on every citizens need to equipped with an understanding of diversity and tolerance in order to grow a good perception about diversity.