Sex EducationPattern for 12 Years Compulsory Education Age in Digital Era Halim Purnomo 1 , Widodo Winarso 2,* 1 Faculty of Islamic Educational Psychology, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, 55183, Indonesia 2 Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Science, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Syekh Nurjati Cirebon, 45132, Indonesia *Corresponding Author: widodoiain@gmail.com Abstract This study aims to produce an educational pattern of appropriate sex education for 12 years compulsory education students. The research method used was a literature review. Furthermore, primary and secondary data sources consist of the views of experts, previous relevant studies, and debates of the academic community. Content analysis was used as a data analysis technique, and the process of interpreting this research data comes from the results of the latest expert reviews. The results showed that there was no standard sex education pattern for 12 years of compulsory education students adjusted to the level of understanding and minds of students. This study offers three sex education be pattern:1) for 2-5 years old children, it can begin with the introduction of differences in sex and parts of the human body and begin to introduce the veil or long skirt for girls. Then, they are accustomed to cover their aurat. 2) For primary school-age children, the educational games and the right place for the educational process and knowledge of sex about baligh signs are needed. 3)For middle-aged and adolescents, free sex danger socialization programs and the provision of education about the dangers of sex without legal marriage are suggested Keywords Sex Education; Psych education; 12 years of compulsory education 1. Introduction Sex education is knowledge about everything related to gender ranging from sex growth to its function [1]. Also, it covers many aspects, namely, one's thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and behavior [2]. Sex education is also an effort to transfer of knowledge and value regarding physical - genetic and functions, especially related to sex. Whereas, according to WHO, sex education is the integration of the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social aspects of sexual being, in ways that are positively enriching and that enhance personality, communication, and love [3]. Every person has a right to receive sexual information and to consider accepting sexual relationships for pleasure as well as for procreation[4][5]. This transfer of knowledge and value is an effort to teach, awaken and explain sex problems for 12-year-olds who are compulsory to understand comprehensively and be protected from moral decadence. The sex education process should be started from childhood by considering the character formation at that time [6]. Digital devices for children's lives today have shifted them into primary needs in all educational activities. This has become a new lifestyle that cannot be separated. This also significantly affects a child's psychology[7][8]. These challenges and demands considerably require an informative and educative digital assistance model, especially related to sex knowledge. The sex education belongs in the public school curriculum is a matter of considerable debate [9]. Proponents argue that better sex education efforts may reduce the alarming incidence of adolescent pregnancy, and they believe too few schools offer sex education. The massive implementation of sex education for 12 years old compulsory education students is still perceived as a taboo thing, especially by most less educated people. This is experienced by most parents in the city of Malang [10]. In fact, in this disruptive era, the use of digital-based media has become a primary need, especially among students aged 12 years of compulsory education. Worries that arise have even become a particular concern for the elderly, namely access to information about sex which is very easy to find through the android media of students. Positive and negative impacts always exist. This depends on pedagogic and spiritual bits of intelligence in the use of the media. However, consciously, many 12-year compulsory education students fall into the trap of moral degradation due to access to sex information, especially pornography, which is difficult to prevent in this digital age [11]. Today, the problem of sex for students is no longer closed information along with the development of digitalization. This is evidenced by the natural intensity of access to digital information about sex, both audio and visual. The challenge of digitalization has been felt by all ages, especially the age of twelve-year compulsory education students from elementary school to high school level who are very vulnerable if it is not balanced with understanding and educational information. This is a counterweight between the power of access and educational information that allows readers to control themselves from