Literasi Digital dan Ketahanan Mental dalam Kesadaran Bela Negara Generasi Z Berbasis Islam Berkemajuan

Abstract

The shift in the national threat landscape from military dimensions toward non-military threats such as disinformation, cyber radicalism, and moral degradation demands a more multidimensional and participatory approach to national defense. Generation Z, as Indonesia’s largest productive-age group and digital natives, occupies a strategic yet vulnerable position in safeguarding national resilience, particularly given that national digital literacy scores remain at a moderate level. This study aims to examine the roles of digital literacy and mental resilience in building Generation Z’s national defense awareness, and to analyze how the values of Progressive Islam (Islam Berkemajuan) function as an integrative foundation for both. The method used is a library research with a qualitative descriptive approach through content analysis of academic literature, state policy documents, and national survey data. The findings show that digital literacy contributes through ideological-defensive, constructive, and participatory dimensions, while mental resilience serves as psychological capital through processes of navigation and negotiation in facing digital-space pressures. The values of Progressive Islam tawhid, tajdid, tanwir, wasathiyah, and rahmatan lil-‘alamin when synthesized with Pancasila values, can serve as an ideological-psychological framework that strengthens both into an authentic and contextual awareness of national defense. This study recommends integrating Progressive Islamic values into the Al-Islam Kemuhammadiyahan and Civic Education curricula at Muhammadiyah higher education institutions.