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Political Islam And Religious Violence In Post-New Order Indonesia, Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir
Political Islam And Religious Violence In Post-New Order Indonesia, Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir
Masyarakat: Jurnal Sosiologi
This paper tries to understand why religious violence increasingly occurs in post-New Order Indonesia. There are two dominant views in understanding this. First, the secu- rity approach that perceives the violence as a result of the emergent of “radical” agent of political Islam in the more open political space. In this regard, the state is considered weak because the iron hand as used by the authoritarian regime in the past New Order has disappeared. Thus, the strong security instruments are needed as a solution, such as the law on anti-terrorism and the police force of anti-terrorism (Densus 88). Second, the …