New Media and Religious Conversion Out of Islam Among Celebrities in Indonesia

Bibliographic Data

ID22192976
AuthorsBudiawan Budiawan (Universitas Gadjah Mada, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume3
Issue2
Pages189
Publication date2020-03-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIKAT The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2580-6580 • E-ISSN: 2597-9817
PublisherUniversitas Gadjah Mada (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.22146/ikat.v3i2.51048
OpenAlexW3012799974
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited3

In Muslim-majority Indonesia religious conversion to Islam among celebrities always makes it a piece of good news. Infotainment programs of most TV channels broadcast it as their prime news. However, the opposite direction, namely the religious conversion out of Islam to other religions, is hardly possible to broadcast in conventional media such as TV, newspaper, radio, etc. It is a very sensitive issue, which could cause a mass outcry. Yet, such a phenomenon is easily found in a new media platform, such as YouTube. This paper explores the netizens’ responses to religious conversion out of Islam to Christianity among Indonesian celebrities. By scrutinizing this phenomenon, this paper aims to show to what extent new media provides a space for the religious minorities to speak for themselves. By closely reading their comments, this paper finds that in new media being a religious minority does not matter to represent themselves

Christianity · Epistemology · Indonesian · Islam · Mass media · Media studies · Newspaper · Phenomenon · Political science · Religious conversion · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Islamic Finance and Communication · Islamic Studies and Radicalism · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Religious studies

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