Patterns of Student Friendship Trends According to Multi-Religious Perspectives: A Case Study at SMP Negeri 1Batu, Indonesia

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10.2991/amca-18.2018.135How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Patterns, Student friendship, Multi-religious

Abstract

This research aimed to explore the trends in how students make a social relationship and choose their good friends in regard to the multi-religious, multi-ethnic, and multi-tribe perspectives at State Junior High School 1 Batu, Indonesia. The background of this research was that the adolescence from elementary to junior high school is seen as a critical period to make friends heterogeneously and intensively in the psychological perspective; it is caused by several factors, namely psychological factors, similarities of characters and social mind, similarities of race, language, religion, and tribe. State Junior High School 1 Batu, as a public school, represents multiculturalism and pluralism in terms of religion, ethnicity, as well as tribe. The problems of this research included (1) what dominant factors for consideration to choose a best friend were, and (2) how the relationship patterns and the open mindedness of students to accept multi-religious issues in their friendship were. The data were collected through in-depth interview, Focused-Groups Discussion (FGD), participant observation, questionnaire, and documentation. This research used a qualitative approach, and the data was analyzed using technical analysis taxonomy and description by induction method. The results of research showed that 73 percent of students prefer to choose friends with a similar religion, ethnicity and tribe. Meanwhile, 15 percent of all students felt comfortable with their relationship if they have things in common; this applied on not only religion and tribe, but also character, mindset, personality and hobby; and the other 10 percent of students preferred to share similar culture, habits, geographical place, sexuality and love tendency as aspects to consider in choosing friends. 2 percent of all students did not have any specific reason of criteria in choosing best friends. The results of the second problem revealed that the students were less prone to be open minded to accept friends with different religions, and were not welcome to the idea of tolerance to other religions or tribes either. The recommendation from this study is that the religious subject at public schools should teach about tolerance to other religion, ethnicity and tribe; also, internalizing multi-religious values, and family synergy to shape a person who can accept other religion and tribe in any relationship, and always be humble to others. These values should become those that the students possess.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Nur Afifah Kurin Maknin
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