Rekonstruksi Pendidikan Karakter Politik Berbasis Etika Kepemimpinan Ibnu Bajjah bagi Generasi Digital: Sebuah Kajian Filsafat Sosial-Politik

Abstract

Digital transformation has fundamentally reshaped socio-political interactions while simultaneously creating significant challenges for the political character formation of the younger generation, including the spread of misinformation, political polarization, declining leadership integrity, and weakened critical and reflective thinking. These challenges highlight the need for a political character education paradigm grounded in strong ethical and philosophical foundations. This study aims to reconstruct political character education based on Ibn B?jjah's ethics of leadership for the digital generation through a socio-political philosophical approach. The study employed a qualitative library research design. Primary data were collected from Ibn B?jjah's major work, Tadb?r al-Mutawa??id, complemented by scholarly literature on Islamic political philosophy, character education, and digital leadership. Data were analyzed using content analysis, philosophical hermeneutics, and conceptual reconstruction. The findings reveal that Ibn B?jjah's ethics of leadership are founded upon four principal values: rationality (al-'aql), moral virtue (fa??lah), self-governance (tadb?r al-nafs), and orientation toward the common good (sa‘?dah). Based on these principles, this study proposes a reconstructed model of political character education consisting of four interrelated dimensions: critical rationality, moral integrity, reflective leadership, and public-oriented virtue. This model represents the primary theoretical contribution of the study by bridging the classical tradition of Islamic socio-political philosophy with the contemporary demands of political character education in the digital era. The study concludes that Ibn B?jjah's philosophical thought should not merely be regarded as a historical intellectual legacy but also as a relevant conceptual framework for cultivating ethical, rational, and socially responsible leadership among the digital generation.