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MOZAIK HUMANIORA

ISSN 2442-8469

Vol. 16 / No. 1 / Published : 2016-01

Order : 4, and page :42 - 53

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Original Article :

Young people, religion, and the everyday practice of popular culture: the case of urban muslim young people

Author :

  1. Hariyadi*1
  1. Departemen Sosiologi, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman

Abstract :

AbstrakArtikel ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap praktik budaya populer dan agama anak muda Muslim perkotaan  dalam  kehidupan  sehari-hari.  Dengan  memanfaatkan  metode  wawancara,  diskusi kelompok terfokus, dan pengamatan partisipan, para informan yang berstatus mahasiswa di Jakarta dan Bandung, terutama Universitas Negeri Jakarta dan Institut Teknologi Bandung, memperlihatkan bahwa mereka memiliki pandangan yang beragam terhadap budaya populer, agama, dan relasi di antara keduanya. Di satu sisi, mereka memiliki anggapan bahwa sebagian budaya populer memiliki dampak  negatif  terkait  praktik  keberagamaan,  budaya  populer  membuka  peluang  berkurangnya waktu seseorang untuk mendekatkan diri pada Tuhan. Di sisi lain, mereka tidak bisa melepaskan diri dari budaya populer dan turut mengonsumsinya dan menikmati posisinya sebagai konsumen. Selain itu,  mereka  menempatkan  agama  sebagai  suatu  hal  yang  tidak  sepenuhnya  dogmatik  melainkan dapat  dikompromikan  dengan  kondisi  individual  penganutnya,  termasuk  anak  muda.  Mereka dapat  dikatakan  berada  pada  tahap  pengenalan  terhadap  diri  dan  agamanya  sehingga  memiliki kecenderungan lebih terbuka dalam menerima bentuk-bentuk budaya populer yang dianggap tidak sepenuhnya  sesuai  dengan  agama  yang  mereka  yakini.  Konsumsi  mereka  akan  budaya  populer dan kesungguhan mereka akan agama mereka menegaskan bahwa anak muda di Indonesia ingin menjadi modern dan saleh pada saat yang bersamaan. Dengan demikian, anak muda Muslim kota di Indonesia menunjukkan bahwa mereka tidaklah menjadi “milik” eksklusif Baratisasi dan Islamisasi;mereka menciptakan identitas mereka sendiri yang berbeda.Kata kunci: agama, anak muda, budaya populer, kehidupan sehari-hariAbstractThis article aims to reveal popular culture and religious practices of urban Muslim youth in everyday life. By utilizing interviews, focus group discussions, and participant observation to informants who are students in Jakarta and Bandung, especially the State University of Jakarta and Bandung Institute of Technology, this research showed that they had mixed views on popular culture, religion, and the relationship between them. On the one hand, they assume that the majority of popular culture has a negative impact toward religious practices. Popular culture reduced the time for someone to get closer to God. On the other hand, they cannot detach themselves from popular culture and consume it. In addition, they put religion as something that is not completely dogmatic but can be adjusted with the condition of individual believers, including young people. They can be said to be in the stage of knowing themselves and their religion, thus having the tendency to be more open in accepting forms of popular culture that are not considered fully in accordance with their religious beliefs. Their consumption  of  popular  culture  and  declaration  of  religion  suggests  that  urban  young  people  in Indonesia are aiming to be modern and pious at the same time. In doing so, urban Indonesian Muslim young people demonstrate that they do not exclusively belong to either Westernisation or Islamism;they are creating their own distinctive identity.Keywords: everyday life, popular culture, religion, young people

Keyword :

everyday life, popular culture, religion, young people,


References :

Naafs, Suzanne and Ben White,(2012) Intermediate Generations: Reflections on Indonesian Youth Studies. (1): 3-20. : The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 13





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