Socio-Religious Preferences of the Indonesian Youths in Digital and Everyday Life

Abstract

The life of youths cannot be separated from the constant use of social media. While this online platform helps young people to connect globally and instantly, it can also manifest as a medium of intolerant and radical expressions. This study is a quantitative research that aims to map aspects and assess the degree of socio-religious intolerance of the Indonesian Centennials in their everyday lives and on social media by using a survey as the data collection method. This study found out that Indonesian Centennials are relatively tolerant toward other social groups in terms of race, ethnicities, and religious beliefs, except toward the people of LGBT. The racial prejudice among young Indonesians against the Chinese minority still exists, but it is not as prevalent as in Suharto's era. The results also show that there is a strong correlation between the Centennials' attitudes in their real world and cyberspace, as their social preference and attitudes on social media are identical to those in the real life.