Implementation of Digital-Based Counseling Media to Prevent and Handle Cases of Sexual Harassment Among Students in Higher Education

Theoretically, this study is the application of the counseling media model in higher education. The model needs to be developed in higher education, particularly digital-based ones, so that it can directly benefit students and the targeted higher education. Seiring perkembangan era digital, counseling services must adhere to the needs of the counselee with various increasingly complicated life issues. Untuk menjawab pertanyaan yang diajukan oleh peneliti, metode penelitian diperlukan. Analysis of Mixed Method Sequential Explanatory Designs is the research method used for this. The goal of this approach is to gather quantitative data about the use of the digital-based counseling media model, followed by descriptive interviews to validate the quantitative data findings. Purposive sampling or the researcher's considerations were used to take the sample. There are several ways to address and prevent sexual harassment in higher education, including creating a specific task force that works in institutional units under university supervision. These include the Counseling Service Unit (ULK) of UIN Kyai Abdurrahman Wahid (Gusdur), the Psychology Service Unit (ULP) of UIN Bandung, the Counseling Center of LPM UIN Surabaya, and several campuses that continue to handle sexual harassment cases using social media platforms like WhatsApp, Google Meet, and Zoom, such as Cirebon Islamic Institute, UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh, UIN Bangka Belitung, and UIN Kyai Ahmad Siddiq Jember. UIN Gusdur (https://cdc.uingusdur.ac.id/), UIN Surabaya @konseling_uinsa and UIN Bandung (https://ulp.uinsgd.ac.id) are examples of universities that use digital-based counseling medium. The Cirebon Islamic Institute, UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh, UIN Bangka Belitung, and UIN Kyai are further universities that offer online counseling. Counseling begins with registration and is conducted over social media platforms such as Zoom and Google Meet. The findings indicate that the latent element of digital-based counseling in addressing and avoiding sexual harassment in higher education has a t-value of 0.870 (> 0.05). The effectiveness of digital-based counseling is then at 0.608 (> 0.05), with these results having a substantial value, indicating that it has an impact on handling and preventing sexual harassment situations in universities.