<![CDATA[Children in Kampung Kamumuan, Nagari Koto Tinggi Kuranji Hilir, increasingly prefer playing mobile games to reciting the Qur’an or performing daily prayers, even though a surau is located close to their homes. An underused wali nagari office, originally intended to support children’s learning, has instead become an unsupervised space where children spend hours playing online games, while attendance at obligatory prayers is frequently neglected. This community service activity aimed to identify the extent and root causes of children’s gadget dependedcy and its impact on their interest in qur’anic recitation, as an initial step toward designing appropriate solutions. The approach combined field observation, informal conversations with children and parents, and preliminary outreach such as calling children to the surau trough its loudspeaker and approaching them directly near their homes. The target group consisted of elementary and junior-high- aged children in one surau within Kampung Kamumuan, several of whom, despite already being in junior high school, still read the qur’an haltingly. Flindings revealed low and inconsistent attendance at recitation sessions, frequent neglect of daily prayers, and minimal parental supervision of gadget use as the central contributing factor. Initial outreach produced a modest, uneven response, indicating that a short- term approach alone is insufficient to produce lasting change. This activity contributes a grounded problem mapping and concrete recommendations for follow- up interventions, particularly sustained mentoring and stronger parental involvement to addres gadget- related disengagement from religious learning in rural communities.]]>
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