Aims

The Journal of Indonesian Digital Islamic Studies (JIDIS) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal dedicated to advancing critical and interdisciplinary research on the intersections of Islam, society, and digital media in Indonesia. The journal aims to foster theoretically informed and empirically grounded scholarship that examines how digital technologies reshape religious knowledge, authority, identity, and practice in contemporary Muslim contexts.

JIDIS seeks to contribute to global academic conversations on digital religion by positioning Indonesia—the world’s largest Muslim-majority democracy—as a vital site for understanding the transformation of religious life in the digital age. The journal promotes innovative methodological approaches and conceptual frameworks that illuminate how mediated environments influence religious expression, reconfigure da‘wah and Islamic education, and redefine the boundaries of religious community, belonging, and lived experience.

Scope

JIDIS publishes original research articles that explore the production, circulation, mediation, and contestation of Islamic discourses across digital environments. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Digital mediation of Islamic knowledge, fatwa, and religious interpretation

• Reconfiguration of religious authority, piety, and leadership in online spaces

• Digital da‘wah, online religious learning, and platform-based Islamic pedagogy

• Muslim youth cultures, gender dynamics, and digital religious subjectivities

• Influencers, preachers, scholars, institutions, and state or transnational actors in digital Islamic ecosystems

• Negotiations of orthodoxy, popular religion, political Islam, and digital activism

• Visual, audiovisual, and interactive media in shaping contemporary Islamic imaginaries

• Algorithmic cultures, platform governance, and the politics of visibility in digital religion

• Online religious communities, digital rituals, and mediated forms of belonging

The journal welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from Islamic studies, media and communication studies, anthropology, sociology, political science, digital humanities, and related fields. While prioritizing research grounded in the Indonesian context, JIDIS strongly encourages comparative, regional, and transnational perspectives that situate Indonesian digital Islam within broader global networks and debates on religion and digitality.