Analysis of Indonesian corruption prisoners' religious behaviour

Abstract

This research was motivated by the phenomenon of the change of religious behaviour among community’s corruption convict who became residents of Sukamiskin prisons. This religious behaviour change, especially relate to aspects or dimensions of beliefs, ideological, worship, ritual, and religious understanding. These changes in behaviour are assumed to have taken place due to several factors, including environmental factors and new associations, as well as strong awareness factors arising from the inmates themselves. This study aimed to analyse the changes in behaviour, so that is known the real picture of the changes in religious behaviour implementation in ideological dimension, ritualistic, experience, intellectually, and consequential of corruption convict. The theoretical framework in this research used the theory of social construction approach, Peter L. Berger, which stated that a meaning process of changes conducted by each individual was influenced by externalizing, internalizing, and objectification factors. While the application of theory in this research the authors used the theory about the religious dimensions of the Glock and Stark. The approach used in this research was qualitative-naturalistic approach with a descriptive-analytic method. Data collected through observation, interviews, and documentation study.