Discussing the subject, an old professor used the word secularization to describe what was happening to cultural life and the world view of people in Yogyakarta these days. He contrasted development in the city with the outlying area of central and east Java where “people still clung to Mataram”, and tradisional ways and beliefs still held sway.” He thought that personality of the previous sultan, Hamengku Buwono IX, and the hisroritical process that unfolded during his reign, explained to a
