. The media that became the data
source were the online news portals Kompas.com, Tempo.com,
and Detik.com. The three online news portals were chosen based
on their existence being verified and on a national scale. Data
were analysed in four stages; data management, data memoing,
description-classification-data interpretation, and data
visualization. This study finds that the relationship between the
state and religion has entered a paradoxical relationship phase,
which is indicated by various contradictory policies. This paradox
was deliberately built by President Joko Widodo as a way and
strategy to build a fantasy of power.
Keywords: state and state
relations; contradiction and
paradox