Digital Transformation in Islamic Boarding Schools: Negotiating Tradition, Authority, and Innovation in The Disruption Era

This article aims to analyze the opportunities, challenges, and adaptation strategies of Islamic boarding school in facing digital transformation, especially regarding the use of technology in learning, as well as the role of books and classical Islamic boarding schools methods. This study uses a qualitative-descriptive approach based on a literature review, with thematic analysis of the literature on Islamic boarding school education and digital transformation. The results of the study show that the digital transformation of Islamic boarding schools is not purely technocratic but a process of negotiating values, religious authority, and scientific traditions as a form of institutional resilience in the era of digital disruption. Moderate integration of technology has the potential to strengthen student learning and literacy, while still placing kiai as the guardian of scientific authority. The novelty of this article lies in reading the digital transformation of Islamic boarding schools as a socio-cultural process, not merely a technical innovation, thereby making a conceptual contribution to the study of contemporary Islamic education. The contribution of this research is to offer an analytical framework for the model of Islamic boarding school's adaptation to digital transformation that balances technological innovation, the preservation of scientific traditions, and the strengthening of religious authority as the foundation for the sustainability of Islamic boarding school education in the digital era.