Pengungkapan Diri Muslimah Bercadar melalui Instagram: Pendekatan Fenomenologi

Abstract

Nowdays the hijrah culture is becoming a trend. Not a few Muslim women who emigrated by wearing the veil as a face covering, but then it became a challenge for them when they get discrimination, which is linked to terrorism. The phenomenon of veiled Muslim women in Indonesia continues to increase until it has become a trendy outfit as evidenced by the number of veiled Muslim women who are increasingly open on Instagram in expressing themselves. This study uses a constructivist paradigm with qualitative methods and a phenomenological approach. The subject of the study is five Muslimah Instagram users. This study found that there was expressive self-disclosure with enlarged open areas (open self) and Islamic self-disclosure with enlarged hidden self areas. There are functions of expression, self validation, social control and relationship development experienced by veiled Muslim women, and there is no function of self clarification. This study concluded that Muslims on Instagram can influence the community in removing the negative stigma of muslims and giving direction to other muslims to stay open and not shut away from society.

Niqab, Protest Movement, and the Salafization of Indonesian Islam

“…Our task is to correct and resist the accusations by remaining in the niqab and behaving well and politely" (Hana, 2019). It means that the trend of wearing the niqab by Salafi women is to fight and clarify the negative stigma of Muslim women wearing niqab (Kusmiati, 2020). Thus, on one hand, the niqab becomes a reason for someone to be suspected and judged badly, but on the other hand, it becomes the strength to fight against these negative stigmas and stereotypes.…”