pancasila - definition and meaning

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  Last week former presidents B.J. Habibie and Megawati Sukarnoputri expressed concern that pancasila had lost its prominence.

  
  

  Could Indonesia "Pakistanize"?

  
  



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  Last month, leading political and judicial figures, including the president, warned that "pancasila has been sidelined from people"s way of life."

  
  

  Could Indonesia "Pakistanize"?

  
  



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  Indonesia"s tradition of pluralism, enshrined in its state ideology "pancasila," is now under increasing threat.

  
  

  Could Indonesia "Pakistanize"?

  
  



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  Many of these believers are too young to have taken part in the political system or been indoctrinated in pancasila.

  
  

  Battle Of The Greens

  
  



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  For his three decades in power, Suharto brutally enforced allegiance to the national mythology of pancasila -- the "five principles" of civility, national unity, democracy, social justice and belief in one God.

  
  

  Battle Of The Greens

  
  



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  In order to conform to the first of the five pancasila principles that structure the philosophical basis of the Indonesian state – namely, belief in the one and only God – Indonesian Buddhists have asserted that Adibuddha is the Buddhist equivalent of God.

  
  

  A Buddhist View of Islam

  
  

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