Purpose: This community service program aimed to strengthen digital legal literacy as a preventive approach to cybercrime in Ngadiluwih Village, Magelang Regency, Indonesia.
Research Methodology: The program involved 30 community participants and used a participatory community-based educational approach through legal counselling, interactive discussion, contextual problem analysis, and collective reflection. The program focuses on legal awareness, digital literacy, information verification, digital ethics, and cybersecurity awareness.
Results: The implementation demonstrated that participatory legal education provides a practical mechanism for connecting legal knowledge with participants’ everyday digital experiences and cyber-related risks. Based on the implementation process and reflection, the study proposes the Community-Based Digital Legal Literacy (CBDLL) Model, which integrates community digital risks, community-based legal education, five dimensions of digital legal literacy, preventive capacity, and community resilience to cybercrime.
Conclusions: Community-based digital legal education can serve as an important component of cybercrime prevention in rural communities by strengthening individuals’ capacity to recognize and respond to digital risks in the future.
Limitations: The program relied primarily on qualitative observations and did not employ standardized pre- and post-test instruments. It involved only 30 participants from one rural community, and the CBDLL Model has not yet been evaluated through longitudinal or comparative implementation.
Contributions: This study contributes a practice-based conceptual framework for integrating legal education and digital literacy into community-level cybercrime prevention and provides a practical reference for stakeholders developing sustainable digital legal literacy programs in rural communities.