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Family Suicide Bombing: A Psychological Analysis of Contemporary Terrorism

Walisongo: Jurnal Penelitian Sosial Keagamaan

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Title Family Suicide Bombing: A Psychological Analysis of Contemporary Terrorism
 
Creator Widyaningsih, Rindha
Kuntarto, K
 
Subject Psychology, Religious, Social Humanities
psychology of terrorism; radicalism; staircases to terrorism; suicide bombing; terrorism
Radicalsm, Terrorism
 
Description Terrorist organizations are now transforming into small cells and spreading their ideology to various parts of the world. The acts of terrorism in the Surabaya bomb case provide a new paradigm of the involvement of family members or an inner circle in their actions. The involvement of family members is considerably related to some psychological aspects. This study aims to provide a psychological analysis of suicide bombing terrors involving family members. The data obtained were analyzed using the perspective of Moghaddam’s theory, ‘staircases to terrorism’. The result indicates that the suicide bomber who has brought their family members in the action has gone through these six stages of psychological aspects: (1) Search for meaning. Actors seeking self and social meaning and finding reasons from the radical ideology adopted; (2) Presenting the ideology. The idea arises to fight those who are considered to do injustice, and the desire to change the system of government and politics is legitimate; (3) Cultivation stage. The process of ideology processing justification for resistance to those who are considered to be doing injustices; (4) Control over members. The stages of correct or wrong assessment based on the fatwa of the leader; (5) Moral engagement. The stage of identity confirmation and the process of polarization of groups of friends and opponents; (6) Recruitment, which is the stage of active involvement in acts of terrorism ranging from planning, targeting, techniques used, time and location of targets to implementing recruitment.
 
Publisher LP2M - Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Walisongo
 
Contributor Universitas Jenderal Soedirman
 
Date 2018-12-03
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journal.walisongo.ac.id/index.php/walisongo/article/view/3111
10.21580/ws.26.2.3111
 
Source Walisongo: Jurnal Penelitian Sosial Keagamaan; Vol 26, No 2 (2018); 295-320
2461-064X
0852-7172
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journal.walisongo.ac.id/index.php/walisongo/article/view/3111/Family%20Suicide%20Bombing
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2018 Rindha Widyaningsih, K Kuntarto
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