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Soreang District is one of the sub-districts in Bandung Regency, West Java Province, which is the location of Student's Community Service Course (KKNM) activities, which is an integrated program with Universitas Padjadjaran Lecturer Community Service (PPMD) program. The lack of knowledge among rural teenagers in the digital sector is reinforced by the fact that there have been several cases of online fraud, and still, some students do not understand the ethics and culture of digital platform usage. This activity aims to provide teenagers with an understanding of digital literacy, especially digital safety and ethics material. The method combines counseling methods interspersed with case studies, workshops, and interactive quizzes. PPM activities Digital literacy training is an alternative to encourage accelerated development in rural areas and improve human resource quality through digital technology. Digital literacy will contribute to strengthening the community and rural government in increasing knowledge and understanding and opening up new economic opportunities in rural areas as a form of positive impact from digital technology. The training participants were 50 adolescents aged 13 – 19 years at Armidale English College (AEC), an informal training/education facility for practicing English language skills. AEC is located in Soreang District, Bandung Regency. The reason for choosing this location was that AEC had adequate facilities to hold training activities, and there was a large number of teenage students who were active there, so it was considered to represent the majority of the teenage population in the Soreang District area. This digital literacy training activity went well, as shown by the response and enthusiasm of the participants and related stakeholders, who were very responsive and very helpful in this activity. Considering how important and valuable digital literacy is today, it is hoped that community empowerment activities, especially for adolescents, focusing on the digital space will continue to improve in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The issue of free sex is still a major problem in West Sumatra, especially among teenagers. One of the causes was the high level of exposure of sexual information from digital devices. Teenagers who didthefreesexaresuspectedthattheyhavelowdigitalliteracy.Themeasurementofteenagers'free sex digital literacy level would show a new consideration for the government or people in charge to increase the effectiveness of preventing the free sex behavior among teenagers. This study was conducted. It involved 38 free sex teenagers age 11-24. They consisted of 11 males and 27 females who live in Padang, Bukittingi, and Payakumbuh. By using the Steve Wheeler's digital literacy approach, it was found that the average level of free sex on teenagers in West Sumatra was 77.5 or on mediumcategory. This finding at the same time refuted the initial hypothesis that stated the level of teenagers'free sex digital literacy was on low category. These differences could be a consideration becausetwoexpectedelementsofdigitalliteracytopreventtheteenagersfromnegativeeffectcould reach the lowest achievement if they are compared with other digital literacy elements. In addition, thehugepornographypropagandaininternethasalsobecomeoneofcauseswhytheteenagerswith mediumdigital literacy category still do freesex.Keywords:Digital Literacy, Free Sex, Adolescent, West Sumatra