Mengurai benang kusut terorisme: memahami penyebab, karakter, dan solusi

This article studies movement of terorism with stressing on causal factors, special characteristics, and its solutions. Currently terorism is a topic of the day, especially at Indonesia and Muslim world. Terorism transformed as a social religious phenomenon and it was very difficult to be eradicated. Although an important figures of terorism got caught and in fact be killed by apparatus of police, terorism still shown development. Its question, why was terorism as a difficult problem to be eradicated? Eradicating terorism must with a good method, namely against its ideology. It is important because terorism developed as a ideology. Furthermore we must understand the ideology of terorism well. As a ideology, terorism had similar with fundamentalism movements. Each fundamentalist movements had three characteristics; pervasiveness, polycentrism, and percistence. They usually used jihad as a strategy to achieve purpose. Terorism as a manifestation of radical movement also used jihad with the meaning physical war. This comprehension must be corrected step by step with religious proselytizing and education. Both were very important to construct a moderat religionist.