📖 A Social Psychological Perspective on Terrorism and Prejudice. The case of Indonesia.

The present work attempts to describe prejudice and terrorism in interreligious context in Indonesia. It discusses two issues which divided into 2 specific themes. Theme 1 discusses the phenomenon of the emergence of religious fundamentalism and terrorism. Theme 2 discusses the causal process of prejudice and its expression in interreligious relations. Theme 1 is discussed in two chapters discussing findings from different research: section 1 investigates motives and reasons behind the emergence of terrorism activities in Indonesia; section 2 focuses to understand when and how act of terrorism is supported and denounced by Islamic fundamentalists in Indonesia. Theme 2 consists of three chapters, introducing the idea of ingroup metaprejudice (the way of how group members think that their own group think about an outgroup) and outgroup meta-prejudice (the way how an ingroup member thinks that his or her ingroup is viewed by outgroup members). Across three sections showing findings on the relationship between meta-prejudice and prejudice, how group members think of what others are thinking considered to play a key role in influencing intergroup relations and perceptions.