KEBERAGAMAN DAN EKSKLUSI SOSIAL: SIMBOL IDENTITAS DALAM RUANG PUBLIK
ABSTRACT: This article is a
writing based on a research on tolerance and diversity in Tangerang City. The
objectives of this writing is to describe social relations between groups with
different ethnic and religious backgrounds by unfolding and reflecting boundaries
of identity built by these groups. This writing argues that decentralization as
a context, in which tolerance, ethnic identity and democratization has worked
as a new arena for repositioning and redefintion the relations between groups
at local level. The State (in this particular is the Local Government) is
actually play a role as an agent that reconstructs the relations between ethnic
and religious groups; and some of their “policies” has created social exclusion
in public spaces. As the research unfold, Tangerang’s City vision to build
“akhlaqul karimah” society (a society with pious religious attitudes), has
contibuted to the shaping of social relations of the groups with different
ethnic and religious backgrounds that shares living spaces in Tangerang, as the
local government tries to “color” the city identity by expressing certain
religious symbols in open public spaces. The result is a form of social
exclusion, experienced and felt by ethnic (and religious) groups, which are the
minority in political, economical and socio-cultural arena in Tangerang City.
Penulis: Lugina Setyawati
Kode Jurnal: jpantropologidd100031
