The Link Between Sermons and Monetization
In addition to religious propagation, young teachers of religion can make money on the Internet. They can earn hundreds of millions of rupiah per month from YouTube.
Tempo
June 20, 2018
After being asked to analyze the Tafaqquh Video channel on YouTube last January, Gustiranda Mopili, chief executive of Indonesia Digital Entertainment (IDE), was surprised by the results. That official channel for over a thousand of Abdul Somad Batubara's religious sermons had been viewed over 60 million times. When the view count of Somad's videos uploaded by others are figured in, that figure jumps to 90 million views. Those videos were watched f
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