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Last week former presidents B.J. Habibie and Megawati Sukarnoputri expressed concern that pancasila had lost its prominence.
Could Indonesia 'Pakistanize'? Benedict Rogers 2011
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Last month, leading political and judicial figures, including the president, warned that "pancasila has been sidelined from people's way of life."
Could Indonesia 'Pakistanize'? Benedict Rogers 2011
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Indonesia's tradition of pluralism, enshrined in its state ideology "pancasila," is now under increasing threat.
Could Indonesia 'Pakistanize'? Benedict Rogers 2011
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Last week former presidents B.J. Habibie and Megawati Sukarnoputri expressed concern that pancasila had lost its prominence.
Could Indonesia 'Pakistanize'? Benedict Rogers 2011
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Last month, leading political and judicial figures, including the president, warned that "pancasila has been sidelined from people's way of life."
Could Indonesia 'Pakistanize'? Benedict Rogers 2011
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Indonesia's tradition of pluralism, enshrined in its state ideology "pancasila," is now under increasing threat.
Could Indonesia 'Pakistanize'? Benedict Rogers 2011
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Many of these believers are too young to have taken part in the political system or been indoctrinated in pancasila.
Battle Of The Greens 2008
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For his three decades in power, Suharto brutally enforced allegiance to the national mythology of pancasila -- the "five principles" of civility, national unity, democracy, social justice and belief in one God.
Battle Of The Greens 2008
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In order to conform to the first of the five pancasila principles that structure the philosophical basis of the Indonesian state – namely, belief in the one and only God – Indonesian Buddhists have asserted that Adibuddha is the Buddhist equivalent of God.
chained_bear commented on the word pancasila
"Indonesia isn't a Muslim state but a secular nation with a tradition of tolerance: pancasila, the country's nationalist ideology, mandates equal treatment for all."
—Joe Cochrane, "Indonesia is no 'Muslim nation," Newsweek, July 20, 2009
Bilby (or others) may have a comment on this...?
July 21, 2009
bilby commented on the word pancasila
As far as Cochrane's bit goes, it's an oversimplification. The first of five pancasila principles is "belief in the God Almighty"; rather than agree that Indonesia is a secular nation, I'd describe it as more of a fuzzy theocracy where the five approved religions - Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism and Protestantism - inform state policy.
As for the word, pancasila derives from Sanskrit. From memory panca, five, + sila, pillar. Hardly anywho understands Sanskrit but it is the ancestor of much of the Bahasa Indonesia lexicon. Hence, creating mottoes in Sanskrit is something of a hobby in Indonesia, perhaps akin to a similar use of Latin among English speakers.
July 22, 2009
yarb commented on the word pancasila
Really intrestin' about Sanskrit in Indonesia, bilby.
July 22, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word pancasila
True dat.
(To be fair to Cochrane, the main thrust of his article had something to do with the Secretary of State and Robert Gibbs, not primarily Indonesia. But it's a cool word, anyhow, so I'm glad I saw it.)
July 22, 2009