This article aims to describe the prejudices of religious leaders and
community members about Islam Nusantara. This study also aims
to draw the picture of people’s preconceptions about Islam Nusan�tara and to connect the bigotry of religious leaders, the community,
and its relation to the social conflict of the people of Padang. The
study employes qualitative and quantitative approaches (mixing
methods). The population in this study is 32 religious leaders and
168 community members. Data collection techniques employed
are observation, interview, and psychological scale. The sampling
method used is a simple random sampling technique. This arti�cle employed the Pearson correlation as the data analysis tech�niques. The results of this study found that generally the negative
prejudices of religious leaders about Islam Nusantara were high.
At the same time, the social conflict during society is classified
as low. Meanwhile, the correlation aspect shows that there is no
significant correlation between the views of religious leaders and
community members about Islam Nusantara, and social conflict
in society.
Keywords: religious prejudice; Islam Nusantara; social conflict.