Proceedings of the Critical Island Studies 2023 Conference (CISC 2023)

The Nusantara Assemblage: A Manifesto for the (Re)Commencement of Indonesian Thought

Authors
Min Seong Kim1, *, Rangga Kala Mahaswa2
1Graduate Program in Cultural Studies, Sanata Dharma University, Yogakarta, Indonesia
2Faculty of Philosophy, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogakarta, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: minseong.kim@outlook.com
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Min Seong Kim
Available Online 11 January 2024.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-186-9_3How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Indonesian archipelago; Pancasila; Indonesian philosophy; Filsafat Nusantara
ABSTRACT

The Nusantara is the geospatial correlate of Indonesia’s official state ideology of Pancasila. The statist discourse around Pancasila, however, demands the Nusantara to be simultaneously subdued and sublime. Subdued, such that the totalizing and territorializing drive of the modern nation-building project may proceed against the fragmentary being of the archipelago; and sublime, for it is the profound and rich “traditional culture” of the Nusantara of which the official state ideology purports to embody. This paper offers a critique of Filsafat Nusantara, a mode of doing Indonesian philosophy that contributes to the statist capture of the Nusantara by purporting to extract and explicate “local wisdoms” and “hidden values” of the archipelago, in accordance with the statist injunction to render the Nusantara a sublime, “culturally rich” object.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Critical Island Studies 2023 Conference (CISC 2023)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
11 January 2024
ISBN
978-2-38476-186-9
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2352-5398
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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