This study is an in-depth attempt to understand the perception and change of Muslim youth’s religious identity which is involved in the phenomena of the ‘K-pop Dance Cover’, which has become a kind of subculture among Indonesian Muslim youth, and the ‘Hijrah K-pop’ campaign that started with anti-Korean Wave sentiment at the opposite point, considering both in the line of ‘globality’ and ‘locality’. Muslim women who participate in K-pop dance covers refuse to associate their ‘activities’ with ‘religiosity’, and rather that is a choice and desire for ‘self-actualization’ and ‘better values’ to participate in ‘globality’, not ‘secularization’. On the other hand, the ‘Hijra K-pop’ campaign, led by Ex-Kpopers who experienced this cultural assimilation, is the result of choosing ‘religiousness’ again by ‘self-awareness’ on culture – that is ‘Islamic’ and ‘non-Islamic’. This opposite phenomenon of Muslim women who are experiencing various cultural acculturation amid globalization reflects the complex and pluralistic aspects of Indonesian Muslim society, and this ‘difference’ and ‘change’ of perception among them exemplifies that the prominent authority and role of Islam will become more multi-polarized, differentiated, and personalized in the process of globalization and modernization.

Kpop dance cover, Hijrah, Indonesia, Muslim Youth, Globality, Locality, Religiosity, Identity