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Promoting an Archipelagic Narrative

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Airlangga Pribadi Kusman
· 5 minutes read
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The Gandrung Banyuwangi colossal festival on Oct. 20, 2018. It was a cultural festival involving 1,000 dancers that performed a hybrid of local cultures and the spirit of Nusantara Islam.

The greatest threat of the development of humanity in a nation lies in its inability to understand itself. Among the requirements of a nation’s awakening is its citizens’ literacy in understanding, learning about and cultivating the diverse cultures that the nation inherits from its past.

This was what founding father Sukarno meant when he included the principle of having strong characters of culture in the Trisakti platform that he launched in 1963.

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