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The 21st century is the age of information. Information spreads through newspapers, magazines, television; and also scattered very massively over the internet. This paper was written for two reasons. First, people sometimes perceive information identical with truth. Second, the metaphysics of information is important to be discussed when it is associated with the phenomenon of media and politics in Indonesia. This paper analyses the metaphysics of information by 'disclosing' information structures that refer to Jean Baudrillard's thought. For Baudrillard, behind the phenomenon of information there are actually three elements at once, namely representation, manipulation, and simulation. The three elements above, influence each other. Real information is the result of the process of representation, ie the process of re-preserving reality and then transmitting that representation of reality to others. Manipulation also becomes an important element in information. According to Baudrillard, the element of simulation in this information is still closely related to the first element, namely representation. Baudrillard said that in the simulation, information will be actualized, meaning that it will be dramatized in a spectacular fashion, but at the same time kept away from communication, and reduced to a sign.

Terrorism is one of the most terrible crimes. Various efforts have been conducted by the government, however, until now terrorism is still a serious issue. As a human behavior, the crime of terrorism is one thing that can be analized from various perspectives, as well as from the existentialism philosophy framework of Gabriel H. Marcel as described in this article. In relation to the analysis of terrorist behavior in Indonesia, it can be concluded that acts of terrorism, espe- cially those committed by suicide bombings, are ontologically behavioral parts of human chosen efforts to achieve "Being", which also involves meeting between "I" and "You". Regardless of any deed done (in terms of material deeds), in Marcel's perspective, such deeds are formally examples of "human" acts be- cause of the "procedure" passed by the terrorist according to the phases pro- posed by Marcel. Although it may be a barbaric act, but judging from the formal side of the decision he chooses, the perpetrator of terror is the actor who attains "Being" because he finds the presence of "Thou" in the decisions he takes.

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan hakikat ideologi menurut Karl Mannheim serta menganalisis landasan ontologis, epistemologis, dan aksiologis yang mendasari pemikirannya. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian pustaka (library research), dengan memakai beberapa unsur metodis, yakni deskripsi, historis, analitika bahasa, abstraksi, hermeneutika, dan heuristika. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa menurut Mannheim, ideologi mengacu pada sebuah kondisi yang belum atau tidak terjadi, dalam arti tidak ada dalam kenyataan. Ideologi berarti ramalan tentang masa depan berdasarkan pada sistem yang saat ini sedang berlaku. Selain itu, Mannheim juga membedakan dua macam ideologi, yaitu ideologi partikular dan ideologi total. Ideologi partikular adalah ideologi yang dipahami secara psikologis oleh seorang individu; sedangkan ideologi total adalah ideologi yang dimiliki oleh suatu komunitas sehingga sangat dekat dengan pengertian welstanchauung. Dari perspektif ontologis, dalam pemikiran Karl Mannheim tentang ideologi terkandung asumsi adanya realitas objektif. Dari perspektif epistemologi, pemikiran Karl Mannheim tentang ideologi menyiratkan pemikiran subjektivisme epistemologis. Dari perspektif aksiologis, kekuasaan yang berkaitan dengan politik masih menduduki hierarki yang tertinggi dalam ideologi.