Ministry Of Religion Asks Mosque Management To Create Religious Content On Social Media

Director of Islamic Religious Affairs and Sharia Guidance at the Ministry of Religion Adib/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Religion (Kemenag) encourages mosque administrators to fill digital spaces with religious teachings and be more active in conveying information about religious teachings through social media. fill digital spaces with religious teachings that are intellectual and enlightening," said Director of Islamic Religious Affairs and Sharia Guidance at the Ministry of Religion Adib in a ministry press release received in Jakarta, Thursday 17 February. Along with technological advances, he said, mosques must also transform in spreading good values and religious teachings by utilizing digital spaces. "Because this is comprehensive, we cannot work partially, of course it is very important to have cross-ministerial cooperation, especially with Kominfo," he said.

Adib said that the dissemination of content about religion and goodness must be accompanied by efforts to build public awareness of da'wah. people care, so our task is to provide the content so that people can access it more easily," he said. Adib also conveyed the importance of building mosque library infrastructure, physical and digital, to support the strengthening of da'wah. "Therefore, we have a program to strengthen the role of mosques. through increasing the capacity of the mosque library. We hope that good content will become more abundant and easy to find in the digital space," said Adib.