Exposure to global humanitarian conflict content on social media requires Generation Z to have adequate digital literacy and emotional resilience, while the delivery of Pancasila values has not fully aligned with their media consumption patterns. This study provides an empirical basis for formulating government strategies for developing Pancasila-based digital education. A mixed-methods approach was applied to 42 Generation Z university students from various Indonesian universities through questionnaires, observation of responses to digital educational content, and semi-structured interviews, complemented by Roland Barthes’ semiotic analysis of digital content on humanitarian conflicts. Of the respondents, 74% were highly interested in global humanitarian conflict issues, yet only 41% consistently verified information sources. In addition, 67% had re-shared information without checking it, 72% said emotional visual content influenced their perception, and 69% had experienced emotional fatigue. A paired-samples t-test showed significant differences (p < 0.05) in digital literacy and resilience before and after the digital education intervention. Five strategic directions for the government are proposed: integration into existing education policy, short-visual-interactive content formats, stronger information-verification habits, support for emotional resilience, and data-based evaluation. The findings are exploratory and limited to 42 respondents and cannot yet be generalised.
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