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The scope of the journal includes general and specific areas of sociology, social work, social psychology, social statistics, criminology, social research methods, and other related disciplines. SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI accepts both qualitative and quantitative journal manuscripts for publication. All published articles in SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI will have a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number.
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Selective memory and digital representation: Chinese Indonesians in ANRI’s “Today’s Archives” virtual exhibition Eritrina Putri Ekantari; Lasiyo Lasiyo; Budiawan Budiawan
SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI Vol 9, No 1: 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v9i1.34387

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“Today’s Archives” is a virtual archival exhibition organized by the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia (ANRI) that presents historical events and archival materials related to Indonesian society, including Chinese Indonesians. This study examines how a state organized virtual exhibition constructs public memory about Chinese Indonesians through digital archival representation. Adopting a critical paradigm and multimodal discourse analysis based on Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen, the study analyzes how visual and textual elements construct meaning within digital platforms. This research contributes to digital memory and archival studies by examining how institutional curation and digital mediation shape representations of minority history in contemporary Indonesia. The findings reveal that representations of Chinese Indonesians in the “Today’s Archives” exhibition are shaped through archival selection, visual framing, captions, and platform-based narration. The exhibition predominantly emphasizes narratives of harmony, cultural visibility, and social contribution, while experiences of discrimination, political exclusion, and historical violence remain largely absent. These representations construct a selective and depoliticized form of public memory that aligns with broader narratives of multicultural harmony in post authoritarian Indonesia.
Reposting the ‘17+8 People's Demands’: Social practice among students in the digital field Fakhris Aulady; Agus Machfud Fauzi
SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI Vol 9, No 1: 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v9i1.32594

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The reposting of content related to social movements has emerged as a prevalent practice among students, particularly following the widespread circulation of the “17+8 People’s Demands” poster. Existing scholarship has largely interpreted this phenomenon as a mere spectre of participation, predominantly situated within communication and political science perspectives, thereby overlooking its significance as a form of social practice. This study seeks to address this gap by employing Pierre Bourdieu’s framework of social practice, combined with a qualitative methodology encompassing semi-structured interviews and systematic coding procedures adapted from Robert C. Bogdan and Sari Knopp Biklen. Such an approach facilitates an in- depth exploration of participants’ subjective meanings, strategic actions, and reflexive considerations. Furthermore, this study examines variations in social practices across friendship networks, campus culture, and the symbolic power embedded within online environments. Reposting behavior reflects socially embedded, habitus-driven practices involving reflexivity, solidarity, risk negotiation, and symbolic capital considerations within digital communities. Accordingly, this research offers an original contribution by conceptualizing digital activism as a form of social practice dynamically constituted through habitus, capital, and digital environments. In doing so, it extends Bourdieu’s theoretical framework into the domain of social media and underscores that social practices are equally enacted within digital contexts.
Identity negotiation strategies among Indonesian LGBT diaspora on TikTok amid digital persecution Dwi Firli Ashari
SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI Vol 9, No 1: 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v9i1.33897

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In Indonesia, the LGBT community remains stigmatized as a threat to national culture. This hostility compels many LGBT Indonesians to migrate, yet their digital presence on platforms like TikTok continues to attract persecution from Indonesian audiences. This study examines how two Indonesian LGBT diaspora members, Kasim (@thereal_indobule, Australia) and Ragil (@ragilmahardika, Germany), negotiate their identities on TikTok and respond strategically to the digital persecution those articulations provoke. Employing critical content analysis of 70 TikTok videos and their accompanying comments, the study draws on Stuart Hall’s cultural identity theory, Ponzanesi’s digital diaspora framework, and Wijaya’s concept of digital homophobia. Findings reveal four thematic strategies of identity negotiation: performative entry and gradual disclosure, everyday domesticity and diaspora narration, familial and relational visibility, and direct audience engagement. Two counter-persecution strategies are identified: gay visibility as strategic normalization and mock impoliteness as discursive resistance. The study contributes to digital diaspora and queer media scholarship by demonstrating how TikTok functions as a contested space where marginalized identities are simultaneously performed, policed, and defended through platform-specific creative practices.
Negotiating brotherhood: Habitus, capital and the transformation of Orang Basudara Steve Gerardo Christoffel Gaspersz
SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI Vol 9, No 1: 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v9i1.30243

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This qualitative study explores the concept and praxis of Orang Basudara (Brotherhood) in Malukan culture by employing Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice as the main analytical framework. It examines how habitus, symbolic capital, and symbolic power shape, reproduce, and transform the social solidarity embedded in Orang Basudara amid processes of modernization and globalization. Through a qualitative socio-historical approach, data were analyzed to understand how social structures and cultural dispositions interact within everyday practices in Maluku. The findings reveal that Orang Basudara is a dynamic product of the dialectical relationship between historical structures and human agency. This study identifies tensions between traditional communal values and contemporary individualistic tendencies influenced by global capitalism. The uniqueness of this article lies in developing a new Bourdieusian-relational framework that integrates habitus transformation with the concept of cultural negotiation, offering an innovative lens to explain how local solidarity practices adapt to social change. Hence, Orang Basudara is not a static moral ideal but an evolving field of social interaction that continuously negotiates between local wisdom and modern social forces.
Understanding negotiating journalism: Survival tactics, non-state pressure, and resistance of local media in Madura, Indonesia Surokim Surokim; Rachmah Ida; Suko Widodo
SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI Vol 9, No 1: 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v9i1.34406

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After the Reformation era in Indonesia, discussions of press freedom have mainly focused on institutions, while the everyday experiences of local journalists facing non-state pressures are often overlooked. This study examines interviews with nineteen journalists from four regencies on Madura Island and introduces the concept of negotiating journalism. Local journalists regularly face pressures from blatter, klebun, kiai, contractors, politicians, and predatory NGOs while trying to maintain professional standards. Drawing on the perspectives of Anthony Giddens, Michel de Certeau, and Joel S. Migdal, the study identifies four main findings. First, journalists experience intimidation, verbal abuse, financial loss, and social exclusion. Second, they cope by fact-checking, being polite, building relationships, protecting editors, and finding additional income sources. Third, they resist pressures through negotiation, adherence to norms and rules, investigative reporting, and legal action. Fourth, journalists continuously balance ethical ideals, practical realities, and economic survival. Negotiating journalism is not a form of surrender but a practical strategy for working within a complex environment marked by overlapping authority, weak institutions, and unstable local media economies. The study shows that press freedom is shaped by journalists’ everyday relationships and local-level negotiations.
From technophobia to technophilia: The paradox of imagining the feminine persona of the Chinese AI assistant Moch. Zainul Arifin; Heru Nugroho; Sugeng Bayu Wahyono
SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI Vol 9, No 1: 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v9i1.33451

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Artificial intelligence (AI) assistants, such as Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and ByteDance's Cici, are increasingly incorporating feminine personas. Given Cici's popularity and its pronounced feminine persona, this study examines how Indonesian users imagine the Chinese AI assistant. Drawing on a thematic analysis of interviews with 23 participants, the study explores users' imaginaries and appropriations of Cici's feminine persona. The findings suggest that the feminine persona of AI assistants serves as a means of domesticating AI. Initial anxieties about AI technology, often perceived as capable of replacing humans, contribute to technophobia (fear of technology), but Cici's feminine persona tends to alleviate it. This article argues that the transition from technophobia to technophilia (love of technology) is non-linear due to the intertwining of technological and gender imaginaries. This dynamic produces the paradox of imagining Cici: the paradox of belonging and the paradox of equality. On the one hand, users feel ownership, equality, and control over Cici. On the other hand, their behavioral data may be extracted by platforms, reinforcing existing gender inequalities. Thus, imaginaries of AI are not universal but are instead shaped by specific sociocultural contexts, calling for greater attention to Global South perspectives.
From disbandment to sustainable peace: Threat and risk analysis of Jemaah Islamiyah in Lampung, Indonesia I Made Astawa; Jindar Muttaqin; Mochammad Wahyu Ghani
SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI Vol 9, No 1: 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v9i1.33916

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This research analyzes the effectiveness of the synergy between hard and soft approaches in facilitating the disbandment of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) in Lampung Province and maps the residual risks following its dissolution Utilizing a qualitative case study method with purposive and snowball sampling, the study involved 33 key informants from diverse backgrounds. The results reveal a four-stage transformation roadmap: structural disruption (2019–2022), ideological intervention (2022–2023), agricultural economic empowerment (2023–2024), and a collective declaration of disbandment in August 2024. This synergy effectively degraded operational capabilities and transformed members' ideological consciousness through dialogue and sustained economic reinforcement. However, the study identifies residual threats in the form of persistent social networks and emotional ties among former members. The formal disbandment marks only the beginning of a complex reintegration phase requiring cross-institutional strategies and community support to preventrecidivism. This study contributes a contextual post-organizational analysis of radical group transformation rarely addressed in existing counterterrorism literature.
From local wisdom to community-based governance: Managing mangrove ecotourism in Aceh, Indonesia Akmal Saputra; Masrizal Masrizal; Nodi Marefanda; Herizal Herizal; Ahmad Harakan
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v9i1.31698

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This study examines how local wisdom functions as a constitutive element of community-based governance in mangrove ecotourism in Aceh, Indonesia. Using a qualitative case study approach, data were collected through in-depth interviews, participant observation, document analysis, and focus group discussions involving stakeholders from government, customary institutions, communities, and the private sector. The findings demonstrate that cultural practices such as meuseuraya, duek pakat, and peumulia jamee operate as constitutive governance mechanisms that structure collective action, decision-making, and socio-ecological relations. Governance emerges not as a fixed institutional arrangement, but as a relational and negotiated process shaped by the interaction of cultural norms, institutional configurations, and power dynamics. The coexistence of customary and formal systems produces hybrid governance structures that enable coordination while generating tensions, asymmetries, and contested outcomes. This study reconceptualizes local wisdom as governance infrastructure, demonstrating that governance outcomes are not solely determined by institutional design, but are mediated by culturally grounded meanings and socially structured power relations. The results underscore that effective community-based governance depends on the institutionalization of culturally grounded practices, inclusive deliberative processes, and relational coordination across actors. These insights contribute to advancing socio-ecological systems and social capital perspectives by foregrounding culture as an operational mechanism of governance, while offering practical direction for designing context-sensitive and adaptive governance strategies in ecotourism settings.
Front Cover Simulacra, Volume 9, Issue 1, June 2026 Medhy Aginta Hidayat
SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI Vol 9, No 1: 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v9i1.34924

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Reactive-pragmatic activism: The trend and pattern of Indonesia’s Generation Z digital movement Cep Deni Muchlis; A. Bakir Ihsan; Mohammad Hasan Ansori; Ismail Suardi Wekke
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v9i1.33629

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This study aims to explore the manner in which Generation Z (Gen Z) engages with socio-political activities in the digital sphere, where the swift dissemination of information influences the nature and intensity of collective actions. The findings indicate that Gen Z's responses to socio-political issues are generally expressed in two paradoxical mainstreams: apolitical tendencies (political alienation) and political tendencies (political activism), each of which exhibiting distinct variations. To examine this phenomenon, the study mainly employs a semi-systematic literature review (semi-SLR), analyzing 40 curated articles from an initial pool of 200 Scopus-indexed publications (2020–2025). The selection process adhered to a rigorous semi PRISMA-based framework. The methodological analysis reveals that Gen Z's engagement with socio- political phenomena tends to intensify as these issues predominantly gain attention on social media (the digital realm). However, this intensification has not consistently resulted in substantive political change. Indeed, at a certain juncture, Gen Z movements remain in what Dahrendorf termed as the "quasi- group" phase, which potentially evolves into a highly responsive collective action when triggered by pragmatic and significant issues. This phenomenon is referred to as a reactive-pragmatic activism, a form of activism motivated by the pursuit of immediate results without an ideological foundation.

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