The Nusantara Assemblage: A Manifesto for the (Re)Commencement of Indonesian Thought
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- 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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TY - CONF AU - Min Seong Kim AU - Rangga Kala Mahaswa PY - 2024 DA - 2024/01/11 TI - The Nusantara Assemblage: A Manifesto for the (Re)Commencement of Indonesian Thought BT - Proceedings of the Critical Island Studies 2023 Conference (CISC 2023) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 13 EP - 19 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-186-9_3 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-186-9_3 ID - Kim2024 ER -