The Edi Mancoro’s Religious Tolerances Model in Countering Digital Radicalism

Abstract

The research aims to examine the tolerances implementation in Edi Mancoro's Islamic Boarding School to counter the intolerances on digital radicalism. The tolerances model in Edi Mancoro's Boarding School (Pondok Pesantren Edi Mancoro) works to the student (santri) to keep tolerance among other religious believers. One of the Edi Mancoro's Models of Tolerances could counter intolerances on digital radicalism is the pluralism teaching concept by Kiai Muhamad Hanif which is a focus on respect to the others' religion. Teach by using perspectives, to see what the interest of other religions and what things could be mediating among the conflicts. As far as the study for peace religious, radicalism transforms from massive community-based to cyber media, the community of religious intolerances uses the media advantages to penetrate people or society to obtain followers. Therefore, religious intolerance intensively penetrated vulnerable people. Make use of the Edi Mancoro's model of tolerances, this research tries to analyze what important aspects of tolerances or pluralism model relevant to the digital era. In addition, the study of Edi Mancoro's model of tolerances would engage the socio-culture, religions, society, and digital media.