Identifikasi Pola-Pola Konflik Agama dan Sosial (Studi Kasus Kekerasan Berbasis Sektarian dan Komunal di Indonesia)

This paper aims to identify patterns of social and religious conflicts in Indonesia. The
pattern of religious conflict include the type of conflict, the frequency of conflict, the
development and spreading of the conflict, the issue of the causes of conflict, actors, and
the impact of the conflict. This research used a sociological approach to reveal the social
impact of the rise of religious conflicts.This research is a case study based on sectarian
and communal violence that occurred in the some regions. The theory used to identify
patterns of religious and social conflict are Louis Coser theory and theory of ethnic
conflict from Jaques Jacques Bertrand. This study shows that the Indonesian people have
the capacity to respond the issues causing religious conflict in the form of peaceful
demonstrations. Our duty is to encourage people to make a peaceful protest as the main
option in order to prevent larger conflicts. The issues that drove the conflict in various
regions vary widely so that the eradication of violence needs to be designed in accordance
with the variation of religious conflict issues that dominate each regions. The results of
this study also shows that the issue of religious conflict that faced each different regime.
In the New Order regime, the issue of communal becoming the most dominant issue
occurs. While the reform era more face sectarian religious conflict related issues.
Key Word: Conflict, Religion, Sosial, Sectarian, and Communal