Social Network Strategy to Counter Acts of Terrorism in Indonesia: A Structural Hole Study

Abstract

The ISIS terrorist group still poses a serious threat in Indonesia, especially because it operates in a network (net-terrorism) so that the handling of this terrorist group often does not reach its roots. The research is aimed to reveal the social network strategy in resolving terrorist acts in Indonesia using a structural hole theory. The research method is a qualitative research approach with secondary data analysis from four sources: books, journal articles, previous related research, and the Law of the Republic of Indonesia. The data above is then processed with Ucinet-Draw to calculate the linkage score between members in the network and then see the movement map for each ISIS network in Indonesia: Jakarta, Poso, and Surabaya. Thus, this study proves that there is a gap in the structure of the ISIS group's communication network in Indonesia. The research results revealed that many terrorist acts in Indonesia had the same pattern, namely the strong communication network between terrorist actors. Terrorist actors carried out at least three tertius strategies, namely tertius gaudens, tertius inguens, and a combination of the two. Through the tertius strategy, the government will be able to play its most crucial role in taking preventive actions against actors in terrorist networks. Therefore, the government needed to carry out various integration strategies with various institutions to conduct deradicalization appropriately.

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“…This is because in network research, what is studied is not only actors, but also networks, the relationships between one actor and another. Thus, the characteristics of sampling will also be different from these other quantitative methods (Bakti et al, 2021).…”

“…Laumann (1983), in (Bakti et al, 2021) said, "to be able to make determinations on the population, there are two main approaches in making specific boundaries in the network, namely; realist and nominalist approaches". The realist approach is one of the approaches used to limit the population in the network, by looking at the social network from the perspective of the informant, where researchers should not use subjective assumptions in determining the network of actors.…”

“…The data collection technique in this study uses relational data that is focused on questions about actors (breeders) so that they can describe the pattern of their social network structure. Therefore, questions in social networks are divided into three parts (Bakti et al, 2021), namely; first, the name of the generator. Name generator is a question related to identifying the names of the actor (breeder) relations.…”

“…UCINET version VI is a software developed from UCINET IV and UCINET V, which was developed by (GUIDE, 1999) which is specifically designed for social network analysis. UCINET VI was chosen because it is easy to use and produces optimum estimates after three calculations (Bakti et al, 2021). The steps in analyzing social network data can be done by: a) Creating edgelist data formats.…”

Implementation of Collaborative Governance in Countering Terrorism in Indonesia

“…The results of (Bakti et al, 2021) state that countering terrorism requires social and cultural engineering to establish cooperation and synergy with all parties, especially the younger generation, to prevent through counternarrative, counter ideology, and counterpropaganda of terrorism in cyberspace. The community must be able to play an active role in efforts to prevent radical acts of terrorism.…”