Internet Memes as Online Countering Violent Extremism in Indonesia

Maria Ulfa

2018

Abstract

Internet memes have been popular in Indonesia in the last decade, including for the use of responding to terrorist acts in Indonesia. There are many memes spread virally in the internet and social media related to terrorism cases in Indonesia with the messages of countering violent extremism (CVE). This paper addresses this phenomenon by investigating and examining a number of internet memes in responding to terrorism case of suicide bombings on M.H. Thamrin street, Central Jakarta, on 14 January 2016 called ‘Sarinah bombing’, to understand and explain their roles related to CVE, specifically through their contents, meanings, messages, and functions or purposes. This qualitative-descriptive analysis is an interdisciplinary study of language-cultural studies and terrorism studies. The memes are examined by using the semiotics of communication of Roland Barthes and Umberto Eco and CVE concept to understand the images, signs, languages, and meanings as well as their contexts. The memes are part of the online communication to deliver messages of fighting terrorism and countering violent extremism in Indonesia that can be called as part of the online CVE movement. The meme creators and distributors have also contributed and engaged in developing strategies for CVE in the internet and social media.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ulfa M. (2018). Internet Memes as Online Countering Violent Extremism in Indonesia.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 1707-1714. DOI: 10.5220/0009934017071714

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Maria Ulfa},
title={Internet Memes as Online Countering Violent Extremism in Indonesia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={1707-1714},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009934017071714},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Internet Memes as Online Countering Violent Extremism in Indonesia
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Ulfa M.
PY - 2018
SP - 1707
EP - 1714
DO - 10.5220/0009934017071714