Vol. 2 No. 2 (2016): KEMUNCULAN DAN PENYEBARAN RADIKALISME DI KOTA SURAKARTA (SOLO)

This study aims to describe the emergence and the potency of radicalism to spread in society in Surakarta. Surakarta is a heterogen city. In this city, there are several educational institutions that can be categorized as Islamic hard liner. This is a case study which uses qualitative method and descriptive analysis to determine priority of prominent issues. The respondents for this study consisted of institutions related to religious affair and religious leaders in Surakarta. Its samples were taken randomly. The result of data analysis shows that one supporting factor to the emergence and spreading of radicalism in Surakarta is the existence of communities that already have radical ideas or understandings. This condition is supported by the existence of hard line Islamic groups, people’s carelessness towards strangers who stopped by in Surakarta, and the lack of people’s understandings that radicalism is a threat to Indonesian ideology.