Rejected, Isolated, and Abused: Social Stigma toward The Sinners in Aceh

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10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.74How to use a DOI?

Keywords

social stigma; Sharia law; canning; Aceh

Abstract

Canning is the most stringent punishment imposed on those who violate the Sharia law in Aceh, not in terms of the physical pain suffered but the inherent distress of social stigma repressed by the community. The impact of social stigma experienced by the offenders leads to further interpersonal communication anxieties. This study aims to learn how the millennial generation addresses the social stigma faced by the offenders of Sharia law and how the offenders should act to be accepted by the society. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method in which the data were collected through in-depth interviews with seven informants. Informants were selected through purposive sampling technique and only the millennial generation who have exposed to canning news coverage were preferred. The results of the study indicate that the offenders were labeled negatively as sinners and isolated. The informants rejected such social stigma as it may hamper their rehabilitation.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Deni Yanuar
AU  - Hamdani M. Syam
AU  - Febri Nurrahmi
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - Rejected, Isolated, and Abused: Social Stigma toward The Sinners in Aceh
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference of Communication Science Research (ICCSR 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 335
EP  - 339
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.74
DO  - 10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.74
ID  - Yanuar2018/07
ER  -