DARI PRASANGKA HINGGA DISKRIMINASI: MENYOAL STIGMA SESAT DAN KEKERASAN TERHADAP AHMADIYAH DALAM PERSPEKTIF KOMUNIKASI

Abstract

Ahmadiyya as a minor belief is not a new community in Indonesia. Since reformation era, their existence experiences controversies as well as oppositions from the society. From desk research and literature review method, this paper aims to describe the ways prejudice toward Ahmadiyya community emerge and draw the role of communication in connecting the major and minor community in Indonesia. This paper discusses the violence against the Ahmadiyya in Indonesia through communication perspective. The concept of prejudice expression from GW Allport (1954) and Samovar (2013) in this paper shows that violence experienced by Ahmadiyya is already at the stage of extermination rather than only at discrimination stage.