Shifting Religious Practice among KPOP Fans Club Members of Official Army Jember

Cahyani, Dian (2019) Shifting Religious Practice among KPOP Fans Club Members of Official Army Jember. Undergraduate thesis, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Jember.

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Abstract

The popularity of K-POP music in Indonesia marked by the emergence of KPOP fandoms and fan clubs among fans. One of that is the Official Army Jember (OAJ) fandom.Unfortunately, the existence of K-POP fandom becomes the cause of religious activity degradation among Muslim fans.This condition proved that popular Korean culture also influences religion aspect. This research is a response to the developments of the Korean fan club that influence religion aspect among adolescent BTS (Bangtan Seonyeondan) in Jember. This research focuses on the shift in cultural and religious activities in the KPOP fandom. There are three core questions, 1) How are the activities of Official Army Jember? 2) How are the impacts of becoming member of Official Army Jember? 3) How does the shifting in religious practice happen? The objectives of this research are, describing the culture activities as the product fandom of Official Army Jember, describing the effect of joining Official Army Jember and to decribe the shifting religious practice of Joining Official Army Jember in term of Islamic concept (Maqasidu al- Shariah). This research was a qualitative study with case study method. This research used three kinds menner to collect data; in dept interviewees, documents and observation. The data collected will be analyzed using coding techniques. Thus, researcher use Cultivation Theory to analyze the products of fandom culture activities, the theory of cultural imperialism to read cultural consumption of young people as the impact of Korean pop music addicts and the concept of Maqasyidu Al- Sharia to examine the shift in religious activities that occur through fandom culture activities. The results of this study are: 1) Cultural activities formed by the official Jember Army fandom (OAJ) in the form of flashmob, fangath, fancover, and fanproject, 2) There were some positive and negative impacts gotten by the members among Official Army Jember (OAJ), such having hard worker personality as positive impacts and having consumptive life style as negative impact. 3) The shifting religious happen among members of Official Army Jember marked by having preference in doing fandom culture activities. In the same time, they prefer to continue fans club activities than doing sholat. In the Islamic framework this phenomenon becoming cause of ittiba’ bill Kufar (Following the course of infidels), so that they are punished forbidden (haram), in terms of cause and effect, benefits and harm. Key word: K-POP, Culture, Religious

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