Terorisme dan Demokrasi: Masalah Global, Solusi Lokal
Abstract: Terrorism has become
a real challenge to democracy. Despite all the costs it brings, however,
measures to handle terrorism until the very recent times are less effective.
Defensive measures are sometimes oversupplied while more aggressive ones are
undersupplied. Both measures fail to reveal the very essential question of
terrorism. Therefore, there needs to be an alternative way of looking at
terrorism. Here, terrorism can be captured as an institutional problem at both
national and international level. In this stance, terrorism can be put into
democracy discourse where democracy is assumed to provide both incentive and
constraint to terrorism. In such framework, democratic consolidation is
urgently accomplished for terrorism to be eliminated from the society. Such
measure is much more reliable and sustainable as it attacks the central
question of terrorism in three areas concomitantly: institutional, behavioral,
and performance aspects. Once these three aspects are realized, democracy will
be the only game in town which consequently can eliminate terrorism.
Penulis: Gabriel Lele
Kode Jurnal: jpsosiologidd050010
