Indonesian Muslim Migrants in South Korea: Digital Religion, Community Care, and Transnational Belonging

Recent scholarship has shown that digital platforms play an increasingly central role in how migrant communities sustain religious life across borders.Building on this insight, this article explores how Indonesian Muslim migrants in South Korea use social media and messaging apps to maintain religious practice, foster connection, and navigate everyday challenges in diaspora.Drawing on ethnographic observation and digital content analysis, it examines how platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, and KakaoTalk enable prayer, education, charity, and emotional care across dispersed communities.These practices unfold outside formal religious institutions and national multicultural frameworks, yet they function as vital infrastructures of faith and solidarity.Rather than seeking public visibility, Indonesian Muslims cultivate a modest but enduring digital presence grounded in compassion, ritual, and shared responsibility.By focusing on a Southeast Asian Muslim community in East Asia, this study contributes to broader discussions on religion, migration, and digital community-making in non-Western contexts.