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63659
Mon, 06/01/2009 - 19:26
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ACADEMIC OBSERVER PROPOSES PANCASILA AS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS` MAIN THEME
Jakarta, June 1 (ANTARA)- A noted academic observer of political affairs called on the country's presidential candidates to make Pancasila, Indonesia's state philosophy, the main theme of their campaigns and debates ahead of their race in July.
Prof Dr Azymardi Azra, director of the political science post-graduate program at the Jakarta State Islamic University (UIN), said here on Monday it was time for Pancasila to be the central theme of the campaigns and debate for the presidential election.
"It is time for the presidential and vice presidential candidates to make Pancasila the central theme of their campaign rallies and debates," Azra said.
Commenting on the observance of Pancasila Day on June 1, Azra said it was important for Pancasila to be the main theme of the campaigns and debates to revive the people's collective memory and awareness about their state's philosophy.
"If Pancasila as the state ideology ceases to be a public discourse, it may well disappear from the nation's, especially the younger generation's collective memory," Azra said.
In 1945, facing the need to pull together the diverse components of the people inhabiting the Indonesian archipelago, one of the nation's founding fathers who later became its first president, Soekarno, formulated and promulgated Pancasila (Five Guiding Principles) as the nascent state of Indonesia.
Soekarno outlined Pancasila in detail in a speech later titled "The Birth of the Pancasila" which he delivered at a session of the Indonesian Independence Preparatory Committee on June 1, 1945.
He thus helped solve a conflict between Muslims, nationalists and Christians. The 1945 Constitution then formalized the Pancasila as the embodiment of the founding principles of an independent Indonesian state.***
Prof Dr Azymardi Azra, director of the political science post-graduate program at the Jakarta State Islamic University (UIN), said here on Monday it was time for Pancasila to be the central theme of the campaigns and debate for the presidential election.
"It is time for the presidential and vice presidential candidates to make Pancasila the central theme of their campaign rallies and debates," Azra said.
Commenting on the observance of Pancasila Day on June 1, Azra said it was important for Pancasila to be the main theme of the campaigns and debates to revive the people's collective memory and awareness about their state's philosophy.
"If Pancasila as the state ideology ceases to be a public discourse, it may well disappear from the nation's, especially the younger generation's collective memory," Azra said.
In 1945, facing the need to pull together the diverse components of the people inhabiting the Indonesian archipelago, one of the nation's founding fathers who later became its first president, Soekarno, formulated and promulgated Pancasila (Five Guiding Principles) as the nascent state of Indonesia.
Soekarno outlined Pancasila in detail in a speech later titled "The Birth of the Pancasila" which he delivered at a session of the Indonesian Independence Preparatory Committee on June 1, 1945.
He thus helped solve a conflict between Muslims, nationalists and Christians. The 1945 Constitution then formalized the Pancasila as the embodiment of the founding principles of an independent Indonesian state.***
