Using the 2008 dataset on religious conflicts produced by Balai Litbang Agama Jakarta, the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, the author describes the patterns of religious conflicts in 10 provinces in teh western part of Indonesia during the periode 2004-2007. The patterns of religious conflicts include their types, trends across time, geographic distribution, forms, a…
As a doctrine, Islam, to its followers, is a perfect system of values and teachings. The idea of perfection in Islam has generated a claim on truth. In fact, religious doctrine are the results of interpretations with a relative precision. This has created and unsymphatetic face of Islam in history; Islam is imposible to tell apart from violence". This negative attitude must be fixed by displayi…
Tulisan ini menjelaskan salah satu kelompok Islam yang dalam beberapa hal dikaitkan dengan terorism di Indonesia, yaitu Laskar Jihad [LJ]. Ia merupakan bagian kelompok militan yang terlibat dalam konflik sektarian di Ambon dan poso di era 1990-an. LJ didirikan pada bulan Januari 2000 sebagai respon ketidakmampuan pemerintah Indonesia dalam mengatasi konflik di Ambon. Kelompok ini juga tampil ke…