Information Literacy for Santri in Islamic Boarding School (Pesantren)

Abstract

Information literacy is a skill needed by everyone as an anticipatory step to the speed of information as a direct influence of the development of technology and information. Information literacy is essential to create effective and efficient measures in finding, selecting and evaluating the information needed. Pesantren, one type of education in Indonesia, requires attention in terms of information literacy. The entry of technology and input into the world of pesantren encourages pesantren to apply information literacy to pesantren education. However, the success of information literacy in Islamic boarding schools must deal with the unique culture of the pesantren itself. This study describes how students' information literacy includes problems and the steps taken to improve students' literacy skills today amid the digitalization era. This study uses data collection techniques through interviews and questionnaires. The results showed that students' literacy skills in Islamic boarding schools were quite good with an average literacy ability of 80%, but still had limitations in the ability to develop information technology-based information retrieval, so further research should be carried out to build information literacy skills and based on information technology in this digital era for students in Islamic boarding schools.