Indonesian Muslims believe in conspiracies, suggesting that the West is behind terrorist attacks in Indonesia. This belief persists despite overwhelming evidence that Islamist radicals were the true perpetrators. The current research examines the role intergroup threats and negative emotions have in moulding this type of conspiratorial belief, and how this role is dependent upon the level of Muslims’ perceived identity subversion, that is, a sense that the Western ways of life have fundamentally changed Islamic identity. Data from 246 Indonesian Muslim students revealed that negative emotions of dejection-agitation towards Western ways of life significantly mediated the effects of both symbolic and realistic threats on belief in anti-West conspiracy theories. The effects of intergroup threats and dejection-agitation on belief in conspiracy theories, as predicted, were contingent on Muslim participants’ perceived identity subversion. Higher symbolic threat, realistic threat and dejection-agitation, indeed, positively predicted the belief, but only when the degree of identity subversion was high. Identity subversion moderated the roles of dejection-agitation in mediating the effect of symbolic and realistic threats in predicting belief in conspiracy theories. More specifically, the empirical evidence of these mediating roles of dejection-agitation was only among Muslim participants with high identity subversion. Finally, theoretical implications and study limitations of the current findings were discussed.

Victims of natural or humanitarian disasters sometimes resist aid offered to them, resulting in slower recovery among victims, and feelings of rejection among aid offerers. We present two studies conducted in Indonesia that investigated motives for spurning offers of humanitarian aid. Both studies showed that beliefs in developed countries’ conspiracies lead participants to see humanitarian aid as guided by strategic rather than prosocial motives. Perceived strategic motives in turn enhanced aid resistance, whereas perceived prosocial motives decreased resistance. Conspiratorial beliefs and aid resistance were positively predicted by national collective narcissism (Study 1) and intergroup conflict (Study 2). Together, these findings show that humanitarian aid resistance arises from the recipients’ beliefs in malignant intentions of the providers.

The reputation of Indonesia as a multicultural country has been recently debated, owing to the persecutions and attacks on members of Islamic minority Shiite and Ahmadiyya. The aim of this study was to examine the members of Muslim majority's tolerance for Shi'a and Ahmadis and their support for governmental helping dedicated to these religious minority groups. Results (N= 384) demonstrated that minority helping was directly predicted by tolerance, which also mediated the effects of multiculturalism and continuation threat on the helping. We also predicted and found that national identification directly predicted multiculturalism and continuation threat, and these latter variables mediated the effect of the former variable on tolerance and minority helping. We discussed findings in this study in terms of both theoretical and practical implications.

Digital literacy is a basic knowledge that is supported by interconnected information technology. This study aims to determine the digital literacy skills of students to face the Merdeka Learning Independent Campus (MBKM) curriculum. This research uses a descriptive method. The population of this research is students of Malikussaleh University and Al-Muslim University, Aceh. The research sample was conducted by purposive sampling technique. Data retrieval is done using Google forms. A total of 385 students filled out questionnaires distributed via a google form. Most of the research respondents were women (64%). Students' digital literacy is in the high category with an average of 67.5%. With an average student response of 80.4%, it shows the very high enthusiasm of students in implementing the MBKM curriculum.

This paper describes about the psychological perspective on interpersonal communication as one of the strategies the Prophet in preaching. Interpersonal communication is communication btween two or more people in order to achieve the desired objectives. In the context of the history of dakwah of Rasullullah SAW, interpersonal communication has been used as a dakwah strategy of the first when he was newly appointed as an apostle and called on the Islamic religion commanded. Interpersonal communication is done by Rasullullah in psychology perspective is a communication in psychological level. Psychologically interpersonal communication will go well if the two sides are communicating it had known each other, giving each other the attention, support, openness and trust. So the use of appropriate interpersonal communication and effective will affect the success of dakwah Islamiyah.Tulisan ini memaparkan tentang perspektif psikologi tentang komunikasi interpersonal sebagai salah satu strategi Rasulullah dalam berdakwah. Komunikasi interpersonal merupakan komunikasi yang dilakukan dua orang atau lebih dalam rangka mencapai tujuan yang diinginkan. Dalam konteks sejarah dakwah Rasullullah SAW, komunikasi interpersonal telah digunakan sebagai strategi dakwah pertama pada saat beliau baru diangkat menjadi rasul dan diperintahkan menyerukan agama Islam. Komunikasi interpersonal yang dilakukan Rasullullah dalam tinjauan psikologi merupakan komunikasi tingkat psikologis. Secara psikologis komunikasi interpersonal akan berjalan dengan baik jika kedua belah pihak yang berkomunikasi itu telah mengenal satu sama lain, saling memberikan perhatian, dukungan, keterbukaan dan kepercayaan. Sehingga penggunaan komunikasi interpersonal yang tepat dan efektif akan mempengaruhi keberhasilan dakwah Islamiyah.