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Popular Traditionalist and New Media
Popular Traditionalist and New Media
Popular Traditionalist and New Media
ARIK DWIJAYANTO
IAI Sunan Giri Ponorogo, Indonesia
email: arikdj99@gmail.com
Abstract
This paper tries to examine the emerging of popular traditionalism movement is initiated by
millenial santri as a challenge to response popular Islamism movement in Indonesia through
social media. By using sociological approach as a theoretical framework to study deeply the role
of millenial santri in mainstreaming moderate Islam on social media such as facebook, twitter,
instagram, youtube and so forth. In order to support it, a number of santri have created the media
social accounts as a form to express their cultural and religious identity. Therefore, the basic
questions on this paper of how does santri activities in the jihad of literacy on social media?to
what extent the role of millenial santri in mainstreaming moderate Islam on social media?