Construction Of Democratic Values By Islam-Based Fundamentalist-Groups In Online Media

Indonesia -as a democratic country- implements system and democratic values. In the its implementation, Indonesia gets challanges from Islam-based fundamentalism movement. Literature study shows that relation democracy and Islam focus more on political facets and procedural democracy (general election). Researchers get tied by binnary-opposition way of thinking: moderat Islam versus fundamentalism. This article deals with Islam-based fundamentalist-group’s construction on democratic-value discourse in online media. Those groups are JAT, MMI, and HTI. We focus on Islam-based fundamentalist group’s construction on human rights, freedom of faith, minority group, and, freedom of expression. This research harnesses social construction perspective theory and discourse analysis model of Theo Van Leeuwen. The result shows that their repudiation against democracy only in general election meaning. They accept democratic values, i.e., human rights, minority group, and, freedom of expression but they tend to disagree to freedom of faith. Hence, their democratic-value acquiescence can be only understood in the context of Islamic value. Those Islam-based fundamentalist-groups make adaptation, reinterpretation, and contextualization of the democratic values in compliance with Islam aspiration. Online Media (internet) is an effective vehicle to spread out fundamentalist’s thought. Further researches should investigate this fundamentalism phenomenon from the aspect of their reception, experience, or dialectic as an agent/structure.