Kesesatan Berpikir dalam Konteks Hukum dan Masyarakat: Studi Kasus Politik Elektoral dan Budaya Media Sosial di Indonesia

Authors

Tanius Sebastian, Fakultas Hukum, Universitas Katolik ParahyanganFollow

Abstract

This article investigates the phenomena of electoral politics and culture of social media in the context of Indonesian law and society through a case study of Jakarta Gubernatorial Election in 2017. The main argument of this article is that the connection between electoral politics and culture of social media shows a fallacious logical thinking in the form of bias and ad populum reasoning. Those two forms of fallacy refer to sectarian politics and ideological polarization. In analyzing the fallacious thinking in some events of the 2017 Jakarta Gubernatorial Election, this article also shows how emotion, anxiety, and hate operate within the reasoning of the relation of the Indonesian state and society. This article primarily aims at identifying the argumentative situation in the case of the 2017 Jakarta Gubernatorial Election, which contains the fallacious thinking. In the end, the ultimate aim is to evaluate an implication that stems from that identification for an adequate conception of legal reasoning in the Indonesian context.

Bahasa Abstract

Artikel ini mengulas fenomena politik elektoral dan budaya media sosial di dalam konteks hukum dan masyarakat Indonesia melalui studi kasus tentang Pemilihan Kepala Daerah Khusus Ibu Kota Jakarta (Pilkada DKI) tahun 2017. Argumen utama artikel ini adalah bahwa keterkaitan antara politik elektoral dan budaya media sosial menunjukkan kesesatan berpikir yang berbentuk bias dan penalaran ad populum. Kedua bentuk kesesatan berpikir itu merujuk pada politik sektarian dan polarisasi ideologi. Dalam menganalisis kesesatan berpikir dalam beberapa peristiwa Pilkada DKI, artikel ini juga berupaya untuk menunjukkan bagaimana emosi, kecemasan, dan kebencian bekerja di dalam penalaran tentang hubungan antara negara dan masyarakat Indonesia. Tujuan artikel ini adalah untuk mengidentifikasi situasi argumentatif dalam kasus Pilkada DKI yang mengandung kesesatan berpikir. Dengan itu, pembahasan artikel ini mengevaluasi implikasi yang muncul dari hasil identifikasi itu terhadap konsepsi penalaran hukum yang memadai dalam konteks Indonesia.

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Recommended Citation

Sebastian, Tanius. 2019. Kesesatan Berpikir dalam Konteks Hukum dan Masyarakat: Studi Kasus Politik Elektoral dan Budaya Media Sosial di Indonesia. Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya 9, no. 3 (December). 10.17510/paradigma.v9i3.239.