RELIGIOUS MODERATION IN POST RELIGIOUS CONFLICT COMMUNITY: AS IMPLIED IN POSO INFLUENCER’S SOCIAL MEDIA

Abstract

Poso as a post religious conflict region is wellknown by its stigma as terrorist city. In a city with such historical background, multiculture, and religions make people living in anxiety. Thus, the ministry of religious affairs has tried several efforts including campaign of religious moderation through conventional ways and publication of religious moderation book in October 2019. Regarding to this, the writer would like to analyze the support of Poso youth in religious moderation campaign as post-religious conflict community through millenials ways, social media. The writer used library research with descriptive qualitative approach. The data were collected through Instagram spesifically the posts relating to religious moderation posted by the local influencer accounts and supporting information through journals and e-book. The research found that mostly influencer’s instagram support religious moderation by post content nuances moderational values but only a few of them doing it seriously and regularly. This shows Poso youth need to be made more aware of the urgency of religious moderation in Poso and the importance of spreading the information through social media in order to maintain youth resilience against interfaith issues. Also, the mission that implied from the signal words of moderational values used by them as caption or content shown the influencers are trying to do rebranding. They are in the effort to change the stigma of Poso by supporting religious moderation campaign.