<![CDATA[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.]]>
