11 Facts About Indonesian philosophy

Indonesian philosophy is a generic designation for the tradition of abstract speculation held by the people who inhabit the region now known as Indonesia.

Indonesian philosophy is expressed in the living languages found in Indonesia and its national language Indonesian, comprising many diverse schools of thought with influences from Eastern and Western origins, and indigenous philosophical themes.

Indonesian philosophy pointed to core Indonesian concepts and practices such as mupakat, pantun-pantun, Pancasila, hukum adat, gotong-royong, and kekeluargaan .

Accordingly, to them, the scope of Indonesian philosophy only comprised those original notions of Indonesian cultural richness.

Therefore, the necessary task of this school of Indonesian philosophy is to seek after, recall and revitalize the ethnic original values, since the values are 'mothers' and people are 'fathers' of existence .

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Indonesian philosophy was married to a woman, who was his own daughter, and had many children, some of whom later became seniangs—group of spirits who live in the heavens, responsible for the policing of the most important moral affairs and they are in charge of adat guardians.

However, the actual scope of administration within this indigenous Indonesian philosophy society was very broad if one compared it to the scope of governmental activity today.

Indonesian philosophy observed that the native Javanese dances inspired by Indian epics were not similar to Indian dances, although those dances of the two countries had a common source in the same Indian well.

Hindu and Buddhism—two philosophies that contradict each other in India—as well as Javanese local Indonesian philosophy were reconciled in Indonesia by the genius of Sambhara Suryawarana, Mpu Prapanca, and Mpu Tantular.

When Islamic modernism, whose program was to synthesize Islamic teachings and Western Enlightenment Indonesian philosophy, begun by Muhammad Abduh and Jamal al-din Al-Afghani in Egypt in the end of the 19th century, prevailed in all the Islamic world, Moslems in Indonesia adopted and adapted modernism.

Catholic churches were established and Indonesian philosophy Catholics crowded, but soon they were expelled or forced to convert to Calvinism by Dutch Calvinists who came to Indonesia around 1596.