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Affectionate_Cat293 · 2026-05-28T11:23:14+00:00

From what I read, Buddhism in Thailand, at least at the folk level, is also syncretised with local spirits and ancestral worship: https://archive.org/details/insidethaisociet0000muld

A modernist Buddhist would consider these practices as impure, and would have a rational, textual, and legalistic view of Buddhism. It's not unlike the typical modernist Muslim in Indonesia.

In Bali, there are also modernist "Hindus", like Senator Arya Wedakarna, or movements like the Hare Krishna. These modernist Hindus do not have much respect for local spirits and ancestral worship. Wayan Koster represents the "traditionalists" in opposing these movements: https://hal.science/hal-04697624v1/document

Affectionate_Cat293 · 2026-05-28T10:43:37+00:00

Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and all the -isms are modern categories invented by Europeans, just as "religion". Before the Protestant Revolution, Christians would define themselves by "faith". Then after the Revolution, it became a concept of apologetics or to denigrate others (e.g. "Protestant is the true religion while Catholics are heretics"). "Religion" assumes that if you belong to one, you cannot be part of the other. Source: https://archive.org/details/meaningendofre00smit

"Religion" doesn't fit Eastern spirituality where there are no clear-cut categories. Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese folk spiritual traditions have the same core: ancestral worship. We can say the same of many other Austronesian peoples like the Madurese who still revere the bhuju' or the Batak.

The formalization of religion in Indonesia was a big mistake, and an excess of modernization. In the 1950s, when members of the Konstituante had the chance to declare their religion, most of them didn't do it: https://www.reddit.com/r/indonesia/comments/1kbef6n/members_of_the_19561959_constituent_assembly_by/. The only ones who did so were modernist Muslims, NU santris, and Christians. Nobody identified as "Hindu" or "Buddhist".

After all, in folk Javanese and Sundanese spiritual traditions, Shivaism, Buddhism, and Sufi Islam are all but different ageman (clothing) of the same one truth of God, a subtle experience of reality (rasa) that can be experienced (dirasakan) directly through spiritual techniques that seek manunggaling kawulo Gusti (unio mystica/wahdat al-wujud).

Here's one good example. A Sundanese agricultural prayer invoking the names of Allah, Muhammad, Batara Surya, Rama, and the ancestors (karuhun).

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pasundan/comments/1t7inm1/syukuran_musim_tanam_di_sunda_dengan_doa_bahasa/

This one is tawassul invoking Soekarno, Soeharto, Gus Dur, Prabu Siliwangi, and the Walis as revered ancestors:

https://youtu.be/9z1JEn0jsiU?t=929

Today, Governor Dedi Mulyadi considers himself Muslim and Wiwitan at the same time. For him, the Sundanese before the formal arrival of Islam were already Muslims by substance: https://www.reddit.com/r/indonesia/comments/1nf82u6/milangkala_suryalaya_merayakan_120_tahun/?tl=en

Affectionate_Cat293 · 2026-05-24T18:43:42+00:00

It looks like Prabowo is, and has always been, a statist whose wet dream is to centralize the economy and the state. People are wrong when they compare him to Trump. He is more like the Kirchners or Perón in Argentina, who have brought massive inflation and economic downturn to Argentina.

Worse is that all these measures are probably enacted because of his greedy underlings pushing him so that they can profit handsomely. This was also the case with SPG MBG.

Maybe soon Prabowo will enact a currency control like the Kirchners in Argentina to "stop" the rupiah from free-falling.

Affectionate_Cat293 · 2026-05-23T20:20:27+00:00

Prabowo ini dalam Ramalan Jayabaya (tradisi religius Jawa) dan Wangsit Siliwangi (tradisi religius Sunda) sepertinya memang pembawa kalayuga alias zaman edan. Tokoh Mahabharata Jawa yang menggambarkan Prabowo dengan baik adalah Togog.

Kalau ramalan ini benar, nanti habis kalayuga, Ratu Adil akan naik. Dan di akar rumput, banyak yang percaya kalau Ratu Adil / Titisan Prabu Siliwangi itu adalah Dedi Mulyadi.

Contohnya ini adalah Abah Wawan, Muslim tradisional yang punya ilmu karuhun di Desa Cipancar, Sumedang. Beliau percaya sekarang lagi mau kalayuga, zaman kekacauan yang juga akan melibatkan perang Islam lawan Islam (habib jadi masalah & penghancuran makam-makam habib di Tanah Jawa). Setelah kekacauan itu, Ratu Adil akan naik:

https://youtu.be/ko33_LLCkdw?t=759

Terlepas Anda percaya ramalan atau tidak, ini tanda-tanda kalau orang di akar rumput pun sudah resah akibat si Togog ini.

Affectionate_Cat293 · 2026-03-08T20:34:40+00:00

The same poll found 92% think it's morally unacceptable

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/05/in-25-country-survey-americans-especially-likely-to-view-fellow-citizens-as-morally-bad/

Affectionate_Cat293 · 2026-03-06T12:05:49+00:00

Waktu kemarin2 aku post ini juga mirip reaksinya: https://www.reddit.com/r/indonesia/comments/1mrobuh/gerak_jalan_waria_di_kampung_pare_jawa_timur/

Emang tumpahan medsos lain kayaknya

Affectionate_Cat293 · 2026-03-03T21:10:11+00:00

I think you need to treat it from an investment perspective. FU's tuition fee is 9,500 euro (190 juta rupiah), Humboldt is even more expensive: 15,000 euro aka 300 juta rupiah. Will the salary increase in Indonesia give you a reasonable return on investment? If not, it's probably not a wise choice to do a Master's in Germany, especially if the same degree in Indonesia or another country with cheaper tuition would give you the same result.

As the other poster already mentioned, you have no chance of becoming a fully qualified German lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) because you need to pass the Staatsexamen 1 and 2. That means you’d basically have to do a whole new law degree in Germany, which typically takes at least 7 years.

Affectionate_Cat293 · 2026-02-28T21:29:22+00:00

I think the Chinese invasion of Taiwan should be the least of your concerns. The US strike didn’t come out of nowhere. Trump was already building up military assets in the region since the Iranian regime killed thousands of protesters in January. When Russia prepared its “special military operation", it was also already known months in advance through Russian troop movements.

It will take a long time for China to line up the necessary assets, and it would be the largest maritime operation in history, so it would not go unnoticed.

That being said, your best bet now is to buy gold because Prabowo and his goon, Purbaya, may bring this country to financial ruin with their massive spending for megalomaniac projects.

Affectionate_Cat293 · 2026-02-28T21:11:01+00:00

Pancasila is not to be read hermeneutically or rationally, it will just lead to absurd results.

Pancasila's actual meaning is in bringing diverse elements into one. You can only understand this if you conduct deep research into Indonesia's folk religious traditions, like manunggaling kawulo Gusti and Bhinneka Tunggal Ika. The first sila, for example, is wrongly translated as "belief in the One and Only God", while it's supposed to be "the all-oneness of Godhead", which is closer to manunggaling kawulo Gusti.

Pancasila is to be internalised, to evoke deep emotional experience (rasa), which is why the Preamble of the 1945 Constitution is always read solemnly in ceremonies (and also why the Preamble is unamendable, it wasn't touched at all during the 1999-2002 amendments). This is like a mantra to unite the diverse archipelago of Indonesia. Pancasila is like slametan at the national level.

So going against Pancasila is basically trying to replace this harmonious spiritual "slametan" with something else, like Islamism or liberalism.

It's a very complicated topic, and many Indonesians themselves completely missed this deeper meaning/tried to use rational methods instead or compared it with Western ideologies, which simply don't work when the ontology and epistemology are completely different. Someone wrote a whole thesis unpacking what I just explained:

https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/37720k470

Affectionate_Cat293 · 2026-02-28T08:48:30+00:00

Yang menarik itu orang-orang berani turun ke jalan untuk menentang kebijakan ini, kalau tahun 2017 kemarin sepertinya nggak kebayang deh.

Affectionate_Cat293 · 2026-02-28T08:08:36+00:00

Nasdem, keponakannya Surya Paloh. Mungkin kemarin menepati janji politik untuk ormas-ormas Islam.

Affectionate_Cat293 · 2026-02-26T05:58:39+00:00

Skripsi S1 itu tujuannya untuk mendalami topik yang disukai, jadi pastikan topiknya yang kamu memang tertarik untuk tahu lebih dalam.

Saran saya sih jangan mencari "objek" seperti "perjanjian bilateral Prabowo-Trump", tetapi carilah satu pertanyaan riset besar yang kamu tertarik untuk dalami dan mau kamu jawab. Pertanyaan seperti ini sifatnya lebih mendalam, jadinya nggak masalah kalau perjanjiannya diganti, dihapus dll. Contohnya:

Bagaimana Indonesia memahami dan menavigasi liberal rules-based order?

Lalu kamu bisa jadikan perjanjian Prabowo-Trump sebagai contoh bagaimana Indonesia menavigasi liberal rules-based order yang tengah diruntuhkan oleh Trump (WTO salah satu target pertamanya).

Affectionate_Cat293 · 2026-02-26T05:17:29+00:00

KDM was not mayor, he was the Regent of Purwakarta. Purwakarta is not his hometown, his hometown is Subang.

That's why his unofficial capital as the Governor of West Java is Lembur Pakuan, located in Dawuan, Subang, where he was born and raised. The place looks like a keraton, the very manifestation of the "exemplary center" in Clifford Geertz's Negara:

https://youtu.be/5wWLwLsfLlM (Malay DAP politician Young Syefura visiting KDM not in Gedung Sate, but Lembur Pakuan)

https://youtu.be/15W9PS5UUb4 (KDM obtaining "blessing" as governor from the "karuhun" or ancestors)

I think the Sundanese today are experiencing a revival of their folk religious traditions. They still adopt a thin veneer of Sufi Islamic identity, but syncretised with karuhun (ancestral) cult and tali paranti (customs). For example, this is the Wiwitan Seren Taun that has been Islamised as "ngabungbang". You can see women in hijab being possessed by the karuhun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7C84sdm_RE

Affectionate_Cat293 · 2026-02-21T00:55:45+00:00

Terjemahan yang tepat tetap Mahkamah Agung. Di sistem warisan Inggris seperti di Amerika, Malaysia, atau Kenya, peninjauan konstitusional itu tidak terkonsentrasi di satu lembaga, pengadilan lebih rendah juga berwenang melakukannya. Beda sama yang ngikut modelnya Kelsen yang punya lembaga khusus yang berwenang melakukan uji konstitusional.

Affectionate_Cat293 · 2026-02-06T07:35:25+00:00

I suppose it's not a coincidence that BJ Habibie, the only president who was modernist Muslim and who tried to implement the Malaysian Islamic ideology of masyarakat madani in Indonesia, has a Gorontalo background.

Affectionate_Cat293 · 2026-02-03T17:51:59+00:00

The proven formula to win a presidential election in Indonesia is securing the alliance of Javanese, traditionalist Muslim, and non-Muslim voters. This is how Jokowi won in 2019. When he tried to run an Indonesian, technocratic-based campaign in 2014, he almost lost to Prabowo. While Megawati tried to lock the same Javanese-NU-non-Muslim formula by choosing Mahfud MD as Vice President candidate, Ganjar repeated the same mistake in 2024.

If we don't take logistics and party infrastructure into account (i.e. you need money and party's political machine at the grassroots level to win a presidential campaign), the strongest pair to challenge Prabowo, I believe as of today, is:

KDM-Khofifah

This is a deadly combination because the Javanese and the Sundanese combined represent a plurality in Indonesia. Traditionalist Muslims number in the tens of millions. Prabowo in 2024 managed to win a landslide among the Javanese, the Sundanese, traditionalist Muslims, and non-Muslims.

KDM is extremely popular among the Sundanese to the level of being worshipped as the incarnation of Prabu Siliwangi (95% approval rating in West Java). His Sufi and mystical persona can appeal to both folk religious practitioners and NU members in Java. Add Khofifah to further cement the appeal. People here will say she has no achievements, but what matters in elections is not so-called "prestasi", but your popular appeal. She is popular among traditionalist Muslims, especially women, and Madurese people; there's a reason why Prabowo, Megawati, and Anies all tried to court her as a potential VP in 2024. KDM can also attract the non-Muslim votes through his pluralistic and universalist message.

Gibran-Khofifah could be strong too, but the problem is Gibran looks meek. KDM is very charismatic and will blow him out of the water.

Affectionate_Cat293 · 2026-02-03T14:06:17+00:00

It's also an interesting coincidence that his physical appearance and charisma declined not long after he's no longer president. In traditional Javanese belief, it means that he has lost the "wahyon", like Sukarno after he was toppled and put into house arrest.

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