Family Homicide Bombing in Contemporary Indonesia: The Use and Abuse of the Qur’an as Reflected in Media Coverage

Kusmana

2018

Abstract

This paper discusses the ironic practice documented in the media (internet) about the fact that Islam (the Qur’an and Hadith) evidently forbids suicide, yet some Muslims from time to time end their lives for various reasons. The recent suicide was even surprising because it was done by Muslim families themselves. The QS 4: 29-30 informs clearly that God forbids suicide and anyone does it will be sent to the Hell. Some Hadiths narrated by Bukhary and Muslim inform that God will punish anyone who ends his or her life. The phenomena become more interesting to discuss since element of societies recently abused religion to do so by utilizing it to end other lives. The suicide bombing was done by a family, the concept of the smallest institution in societies in which every social force idealizes it as the place where reproduction is legitimately carried out, fundamental values such as honesty, bravery, justice, and equity are nurtured, and love is planted. Using a descriptive-analysis, this study identifies how this irony of the discourse and practice of suicide as represented in the media can be explained, what it does represent in terms of being Muslims in modern era. The study finds that the discussed media use different perspectives in documenting the phenomena of family homicide bombing recently occurred in Indonesia, and resulted in different viewpoints. However they have similar insight when it comes to the condemnation of terrorism, and to the need of reinterpreting religious texts and re-evaluating how to educate family nowadays.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kusmana. (2018). Family Homicide Bombing in Contemporary Indonesia: The Use and Abuse of the Qur’an as Reflected in Media Coverage.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 1928-1935. DOI: 10.5220/0009937419281935

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Kusmana},
title={Family Homicide Bombing in Contemporary Indonesia: The Use and Abuse of the Qur’an as Reflected in Media Coverage},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={1928-1935},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009937419281935},
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 - Family Homicide Bombing in Contemporary Indonesia: The Use and Abuse of the Qur’an as Reflected in Media Coverage
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Kusmana.
PY - 2018
SP - 1928
EP - 1935
DO - 10.5220/0009937419281935