Religious Moderation and the Continuity of Using E-Learning During the Pandemic of Covid-19 Erni Haryanti
PPS UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung
Abstract
Religious Moderation (RM) or wasaṭiyyah (Arabic) is closely related to justice and balance promoting the middle way of Muslim attitudes to avoid falling into religious extremities. So far, the wasaṭiyyah is used to reflect the principles of tawassuth (middle), tasāmuh (tolerant), tawāzun (balanced), and two others. Recently the RM has becomes a catchword of Indonesian Ministry of Religious Affairs (MORA) policy, it is massively socialized among Muslim mass organizations and Islamic schools from elementary to high schools, as well as Islamic universities spread all over Indonesia. About a month ago, MORA has published about 9 (nine) related religious moderation e-books for Indonesian Muslims to be used importantly at Islamic schools. By implementing content analysis to find an alternative way of internalizing RM principles among school and university students, this article analyses the importance of using E-learning for the RM for certain reasons. At the same time, it also explores learning materials of RM principles that enrich students^ understanding of the middle way of Islamic teachings. Overall, E-learning should continue to be implemented at Islamic education institutions during and after the pandemic of Covid-19- it also has function to divert students^ attention to radical Islamic interpretations that commonly emerge in cyberspace.
Keywords: religious moderation, Islamic school education Institutions, E-learning, instructional media
