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...time with Australia's northern neighbors, and while on a residency at Yogyakarta's Indonesian Art Institute in 2005, the artist hooked up with some like-minded students to form the garage band Punkasila. Their name is a punk play on founding President Sukarno's five pillars of nationhood, Pancasila; just as playfully, the band like to riff on the names of the institutions that dominate post-reformasi Indonesian society, from TNI (Indonesian National Military) to KOPASSUS (Special Force Command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exploding with Laughter | 5/1/2007 | See Source »

...response of sorts to the growing radicalism, Yudhoyono has recently paid lip service to Pancasila, the secularized state ideology promoted during the Suharto era. But if Indonesia is to shore up its international reputation, more will be needed than recycling an old ideology tainted by its association with a former dictator. In the absence of more vigorous mobilization by moderates, the rising conservative tide in Indonesian Islam looks unlikely to wane soon. Indonesians who return from study overseas-and those who don't leave home-are just a mouse click away from Salafi scholars anywhere else. "The Internet has helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Call to Prayer | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...TIME: What teachings of your father will you employ to lead the country? Megawati: Do not look at me as the daughter of (first President Sukarno). My father was the founder of Indonesia. And much of his thinking is still very relevant today. His philosophy of Pancasila (state ideology) can still be adhered to as the foundation of this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Our Problems Can't Be Solved by Violence' | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

Last year the parliament passed legislation requiring virtually all social and political organizations to adopt a secular state ideology known as Pancasila, a set of five principles calling for belief in one God, justice, national unity, democracy and humanitarianism. The law was designed to muffle nearly all dissent in the country and was of a piece with the regime's press censorship and powerful military. It sought to curb the growth of Islamic fundamentalism. After an antigovernment riot inspired by Muslim protesters in 1984 and a subsequent rash of political bombings, a number of prominent Suharto opponents, including a former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia's Delicate Balance | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

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