the role of pantun as cultural identity for nusantara in 21st centry and beyond
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Nusantara has been a laboratory of experimentation and management of diversity since time immemorial. Its openness has not made it a region not swamped by successions of foreign cultures and political systems, but subtle selection, adaptation, adoption, localization and indigenization of various cultural forms. Its multi-culturalism and accompanying cultural diversity stem in large part from its management of international and internal migrations and assimilation of cultures. What these developments imply is the need for new ways of thinking about its regional identity which grow out of its complex historical circumstances and social-cultural experiences. If regional identity is often taken as self-evident in the relations between groups of people in a bounded region, but the movement of people, capital and information across spatial boundaries challenge the supposedly harmonious links between the peoples. If regions are understood as historically contingent structures based on their territorial divisions, then regional identity is understood as an abstraction, symbol and institutional shaping that can be used to analyze the links between the peoples. This paper explores the meanings of regional identity and the links between them. It suggests that an analytical distinction between the identity of a region and the regional identity of its inhabitants is useful for establishing these links. Such conceptual arguments will be illustrated with analyses of identity discourses related to Nusantara as a region and the mobility of the peoples from one country to the next as regional grouping is of growing importance in world politics although regions are often described in geographical terms. The main focus of this paper is exploring how and why pantun can be used as regional cultural identity in forging the necessary links between the peoples in the region. In the search, we emphazie on cultural continuum that has the strength to serve the physical and spiritual needs of the peoples. At the physical level, pantun embodies centuries of learning with regard to orientation, while at the spiritual level it conveys harmony with the life-style in all its daily life and rituals, thus unifying the socio-cultural aspirations of the individuals and the community in the region.
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Nusantara has been a laboratory of experimentation and management of diversity since time immemorial. Its openness has not made it a region not swamped by successions of foreign cultures and political systems, but subtle selection, adaptation, adoption, localization and indigenization of various cultural forms. Its multi-culturalism and accompanying cultural diversity stem in large part from its management of international and internal migrations and assimilation of cultures. What these developments imply is the need for new ways of thinking about its regional identity which grow out of its complex historical circumstances and social-cultural experiences. If regional identity is often taken as self-evident in the relations between groups of people in a bounded region, but the movement of people, capital and information across spatial boundaries challenge the supposedly harmonious links between the peoples. If regions are understood as historically contingent structures based on their territorial divisions, then regional identity is understood as an abstraction, symbol and institutional shaping that can be used to analyze the links between the peoples. This paper explores the meanings of regional identity and the links between them. It suggests that an analytical distinction between the identity of a region and the regional identity of its inhabitants is useful for establishing these links. Such conceptual arguments will be illustrated with analyses of identity discourses related to Nusantara as a region and the mobility of the peoples from one country to the next as regional grouping is of growing importance in world politics although regions are often described in geographical terms. The main focus of this paper is exploring how and why pantun can be used as regional cultural identity in forging the necessary links between the peoples in the region. In the search, we emphazie on cultural continuum that has the strength to serve the physical and spiritual needs of the peoples. At the physical level, pantun embodies centuries of learning with regard to orientation, while at the spiritual level it conveys harmony with the life-style in all its daily life and rituals, thus unifying the socio-cultural aspirations of the individuals and the community in the region.
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