Local Wisdom Approach to Develop Counter- Radicalization Strategy

Abstract

The war against radicalism has entered the substantive area that pits the power of ideas and ideology to win hearts and minds. Handling radicalism at the national level has combined a hard approach and a soft approach. The soft approach alternative is chosen because it is easily accepted by the public, in addition to the repressive approach is considered insufficient. This study aims to provide insight into counter-radicalization soft approaches through the Indonesian nation's local wisdom approach. Local wisdom is the social capital that is consequently owned by the Indonesian people in all ethnic groups. This research will describe some of the values of local wisdom from Indonesia that can be used as framing values in counter-radicalization strategy. The method used in this research is literatur study with various sources of literature and depth interview with public figure and cultural leaders who concerned with local wisdom. The results of the study indicate that Indonesian local wisdom can be used as a basis for values to foster tolerance that can hamper developing radical ideologies