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Embeds 0 No embeds. No notes for slide. Description this book Covering the history of Bali from before the Bronze Age to the presidency of Megawati Sukarnoputri, this examination highlights the ethnic dynamics of the island and its place in modern Indonesia. If you want to download this book, click link in the last page 5. You just clipped your first slide! Clipping is a handy way to collect important slides you want to go back to later.
Now customize the name of a clipboard to store your clips. It was more of a political tool, and the local traditions and animism stuck, with the occasional prayers from the "official" religion thrown in occasionally. This was especially in the Malukus, whose rulers were constantly switching between Protestant, Catholic, and Islam, if they were trading with the Dutch, Portuguese, or Arabs see "The World of Maluku" by Andaya. In Bali and mountainous East Java, isolated from the larger kingdoms, the pressure to convert was just not there, especially because the cultural links with the Javanese formed a stronger bond than the perceived superficial state religion.
Let's jump forward to the modern state of Indonesia, which is a secular state not Islamist. The Indonesian constitution guarantees freedom of worship to all citizens This means that the state does and has actively intervene if there is inter-religious violence or persecution of minority official religions.
This has created an environment in which Muslims cannot force Hindus to convert, nor can they get away with trying to kill them for being non-believers. Most Indonesians have a fondness for their pluralistic society and celebrate their differences any museum in Indonesia will undoubtedly have a breakdown of all the ethnic and religious diversity throughout the country.
They especially celebrate their history, which is too heavily influenced by Hinduism to ignore. In fact, the government as spent a lot of money restoring old Hindu and Buddhist temples throughout Java and turned them into national monuments the most famous of which are Prambangan and Borobudor. Another more crude reason for Balinese Hinduism's existence is because Indonesia draws a lot of revenue from tourism in that island.
The traditions, colors, dances, music, clothing, rituals, etc. In summary, Hinduism had a major influence in the development of the culture of the largest ethnic group in Indonesia, the Javanese and could not simply be shoved aside even after Islam became the majority religion.
Minorty religious groups official ones are protected by the secular constitution and thus cannot be forcibly converted or killed off. Non-Islamic traditions mostly influenced by Hinduism , even amongst Muslims, are still celebrated and practiced. I learned most of this information while taking classes at the University of Gajah Mada in Jogjakarta. Ricklefs "Mystic Synthesis in Java: a history of Islamization from the fourteenth to the early nineteenth centuries" and "A History of Modern Indonesia, ca. Here's a map of this.
The map is imperfect for one, it implies there are only three or so mixed areas , but it's useful for showing what zuludonkey is talking about. I'm not sure it's the literal majority of archipelago, but minority religions are on much more land than statistics like " No problem!
Over the best couple of years, Wikipedia has gotten surprisingly good with maps. It's like definitely the first place I look for graphics and charts like this. To understand the reason for this seemingly odd state of affairs, you need to look at the law's context - the brutal fallout from the "attempted Communist coup" whether this was anything of the sort is very debatable.
Up to 2 million people had just been killed for being suspected Communists. I'd take issue with this point. Whilst Suharto ruled with an iron fist, suppressing any groups that could conceivably be a threat, inter-religious conflict and violence today is on the rise and the government seems to be siding with the attackers. The Ministry of Religious Affairs declared the Ahmadiyah to be a deviant sect. A few short months later a group of majority Sunnis carried out a deadly attack and the surviving victims were punished more severely than the killers.
There has more recently been persecution of Shiites and of Christians.
To the moderators: I am going to discuss things in the recent past, I apologize, but it is relevant to the question in terms of what the Indonesian constitution protects. You are absolutely correct. There has been much persecution of Shiites, Christians, and Ahmadiyahs in recent years. I credit this rise in violence as growing pains for the relatively new democratic regime in Indonesia. The government was on the verge of collapse in and saw waves of mass killings and inter-ethnic violence which the security forces were unable to contain at first.
As the state grew stronger, especially since SBY came to power in , there was more peaceful times and democracy grew stronger. Unfortunately, when democracy grows stronger, people become more vocal because they can and they incite more violence See "The Dark Side of Democracy" by Michael Mann. Still, through all these incidents, the Indonesian state stands by the constitution and has prosecuted those they find guilty of crimes against minorities. Of course, many times they are unable to or unwilling, but I would also say this is in part due to the very corrupt nature of the Indonesian state.
Still, the constitution is supposed to protect freedom of religion. Also, Ahmadiyah is not considered a state-sponsored religion, yet Front Pembela Islam was prosecuted for its attacks against the sect in I tried to hide the second, modern part of my post with spoiler tags, but I couldn't make them work. I did agree with the majority of your post. Indonesia is not really homogenous at all, hence the central role of Pancasila and Bahasa Indonesia as cultural lodestones. The constitution provides for freedom of religion, accords "all persons the right to worship according to their own religion or belief," and states that "the nation is based upon belief in one supreme God.
Unrecognized groups may register with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism as social organizations.
When withdrawing money from ATM, avoid card-skimming by using ATM inside the bank lobby, or get your cash from the bank teller. Archived from the original on 3 October Padang restaurants mentioned above are a good option. All of these are located on either rugged high ground or at the water's edge, and this is a clear indication of the likely source of dark forces as far as the Balinese are concerned. The book not only covers the all-important arrival of Indian civilization, but also very early European contact, the role of anthropologists and taste-makers of the s in romanticizing the island, and the complex legacies of Dutch control.
So if you are a Sikh, you're free to worship, though you're not recognised as having a religion, but as belonging to a social organisation. The question of whether atheism is illegal under Indonesian law is disputed. Both these sources were responding to the recent jailing of Alexander Aan. However, he was jailed under the Blasphemy Law for insulting Islam he posted that God does not exist on a Facebook group , rather than being jailed for being an atheist.