e-ISSN: 2636 – 9109 Volume 2 Number 2 September 2020, 109 ~ 116 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37698/ashrej.v2i2.47 r 109 Journal of UCYP Press (www.journal.ucyp.edu.my) Religion, Moral and Modernisation of Urban Society: A Study on the Roles of Religion in Youth Development in Lampung, Republic of Indonesia Suhandi 1 , Azhar Jaafar 2 1 Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Intan, Indonesia, 2 University College of Yayasan Pahang, Malaysia ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article history: Received Aug 10, 2020 Revised Sept 10 02, 2020 Accepted Sept 18, 2020 Modernisation is the consequence of the demands of the development that brings negative impacts to the society. It is undeniable that modernization also brings abundance of positive impacts that ease the life of people and that modernization and humanization cannot be separated. In this context, the youth are considered as unstable being, who easily being controlled by multi-access communication technology; from social, fashion, behaviour, lifestyle, and ideology. Almost all of the damaging sides of technology affect the youth. Religion as the spiritual agent has a major role in combating this change in the society. Religion can act as the social control to hinder from immoral behaviour and worthless actions among the society. The main issue in the current study is to investigate the role of religion in strengthening the moral among the teenagers. This research was conducted by using qualitative method. Data were collected through observation, interview and documentation. The participants of this research were the people of the rural areas in Bandar Lampung. After data collection was carried out, the data were processed qualitatively using the data reduction process, data exposure, and data verification. To conclude, the existence of the negative effects of modernization resulted from lack of religious virtues and parents’ control over their children’s social behaviour. Keywords: Modernisation, Religion, Moral, Youth, Clonflict of Interest: None Funding: None Corresponding Author: Suhandi, University Islam Negeri Raden Intan, Lampung.E-mail: suhandi@radenintan.ac.id Copyright © UCYP Press, University College of Yayasan Pahang. All rights reserved 1. Introduction Studies with regard to religion continue to grow and become one of important and well-known studies in academic world. This is because religion is universal, general and comprehensive in nature in any community (Ramli, 2015:139), that modernisation is not a new term and process in human history. According to Fuzie Nurdin, modernisation started in Italy in the 15th Century and spread to most part of the world in the next five centuries. Now, modernisation takes place in every part of this world. The first manifestation of modernisation that can be seen in England in the 18th Century, as known as the industrial revolution in Asian countries, was especially famous in Japan in realising the revolution around one century ago (Fuzie Nurdin, 2014: 29). The growing of information technology among the people is one of the crucial factors in these revolutions. The birth of social media has made people's behaviour patterns experience a shift in both culture, ethics and existing norms (Anang Sugeng Cahyo, 2016:140). The terms are modern popular or modern time or characteristic of the present or recent time (Abdullah Sulesana, 2013:15). The term modern has always been used in contradiction of traditional. It comes from the Latin word modenus from the words modo and ernus. Modo means way and ernus refers to the existence of