Rabu, Januari 25, 2012

Culture and power Chasing the. Mirage




IN any nation, politics will always reflect broader cultural patterns. This has been said so many times that is has become a truisme. Yet in the  Indonesian context nothing remains as obscure as  the definition of political culture. Indeed, the archbishop of indonesian cultural studies, Clifford Geertz, even talked of the anarchy of meaning of indonesian political discourse.