Knowledge Production-Consumption: A Comparative of Two Famous Online Preachers in Indonesia and the Philippines C B Tenorio 1 , H Jubba 2 , Z Qodir 3 , M Hidayati 4 Department of Islamic Politics-Political Science, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia 1,2,3,4 {christinebtenorio@gmail.com¹, hasse@umy.ac.id², zuliqodir@umy.ac.id³, megahidayati@umy.ac.id 4 } Abstract. The manners of expressing religious identity have changed rapidly over the past decade. It resulted in the emergence of the online global community. The also known ‘networked religion’ is used to recognize how religion functions online. This study applies comparative research intended to explore the distinction between two popular online preachers in Indonesia and the Philippines, i.e. Abdul Somad and Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle respectively. Through their social media, it analyses their popularity, religious spectacle, and political issues. A comparative analysis between the two popular preachers gives findings of the current internet and religious situations in the Philippines and Indonesia. First, that Indonesians are more susceptible to digital religious preaching compared to the Filipinos. Second, both the preacher’s religious spectacles touched and convinced the heart of the Filipino and Indonesian people through their words and wisdom as the product by their strategy of unique preaching style and charisma. Third, the Indonesian religious preacher is more vulnerable to political issues. The Philippine religious preacher’s influence is limited by the law of the country’s separation of Church and the state. Keywords: Network Religion, Social Media, Abdul Somad, Card. Antonio Tagle 1. Introduction The Internet for almost three decades has been utilized as a discussion for traditional religious beliefs and as a space for spiritual rituals. In the early 1980s, ethical use of the Internet was able to trace. Bulletin Board System (BBS) was the first religious-orientated activity based upon the Rheingold documents [1];[2]. These were under a “create your own religion” heading on the discussion area of CommuniTree. Usenet, during the 1980s period, was online religious discussion surfaced. The religious computer enthusiasts that time began to explore “ways to use this new means of communication to express their religious interests” [3]. The first networked forum for discussion on the religious, moral and ethical implications of human actions was known as “net.religion” [4]. Thus, in the mid-1980s it steadily grew when it fragmented into the hierarchies of “alt.religion,” “soc.culture,” “alt.philosophy,” “talk. Religion” and “soc.culture,” during the restructure of Usenet. Many other religious computer enthusiasts throughout the 1980s designed online groups committed to their specific religion such as the first Christian email newsletter “net.religion.Jewish Usenet group and “United Methodist Information” [1];[2]. Furthermore, increasing numbers of religious groups and AICIS 2019, October 01-04, Jakarta, Indonesia Copyright © 2020 EAI DOI 10.4108/eai.1-10-2019.2291749