Digital Society and Islamism in Indonesia Up to Election 2024

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10.2991/978-2-38476-174-6_42How to use a DOI?

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digital era; emotional network; Islamism; citizen participation; social media

Abstract

During the 2014 and 2019 political campaigns, the Indonesian people, who are predominantly Muslim, entered an era known as the era of digital society (digital society). Digital society is characterized using electronic means in almost all areas of life, including the 2014, and 2019 until presidential elections. During the 2014 and 2019 presidential campaigns, a new force emerged that also influenced the political movement of Indonesian society, namely Islamism and then 2024 continues. Islamism is a political movement that uses Islamic symbols in winning the presidential election battle. Digital society is characterized by the strengthening use of the internet, e-mail, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter as a means of campaigning for political ideology, interests and actors promoted by political parties, success teams and supporters of the presidential-vice presidential pair in elections. Islamic themes became one of the main themes voiced in the 2014–2019 elections by using electronic means so that they had an impact on Indonesian voters who are predominantly Muslim. This article aims to analyze the use of electronic means such as the internet, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram on Islamic themes as a form of Islamism used in the 2014–2023 political campaign to win the presidential-vice presidential election battle in Indonesia. This article discusses the literature that shows how the networking and participation of Muslim citizens are involved in the presidential election as a form of citizen participation (civil society) as a form of political articulation of Muslims by using Islamic themes. The analysis in this article also wants to show that the participation of Muslim citizens indirectly points to the existence of the power of Islamism in social media, which is discursive with other Muslim citizens, as well as non-Muslim citizens who also participate in the political battle for the 2014–2019-2024 election. All of this shows that citizens have "emotional closeness" to the presidential-vice presidential candidate pair by using religious sentiments and networks between citizens who participate in politics as a form of citizen political participation in the Digital Society era. Articles are a method to find data and describe data from the social media database.

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AU  - Zuly Qodir
AU  - Bilveer Singh
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/01/08
TI  - Digital Society and Islamism in Indonesia Up to Election 2024
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Democracy and Social Transformation (ICON-DEMOST 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 241
EP  - 245
SN  - 2352-5398
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