Java in Politics

Talking about a society can not be separated from the structural conditions of society that existed at that community. Like any close ties to the structural-functionalist view of culture in a society made up of structures that have a reality as the unity of the functions of the constituent elements. These elementsmust have a set of needs or specific functions that must be met by the parts that become members sothat under normal circumstances, remain durable. When certain requirements were not met it will be developing a condition that can be "pathological." The contemporary functionalist called normal state as the equilibrium, or as a balanced system, is being pointed at unequality of pathological condition, or social change.

Java has its own community as a character of ethnicity. There are noble values that underlie the pattern wong jowo life in general. Noble values that generations passed on from generation to generation through a variety of traditional media. There are in writing or target. Continuity of the teachings of this java a positive impact on the community of Java itself, visible from almost no presence of horizontal conflicts between communities java though historically many civil war tragedies over the kingdom. Effect of Javanese kingdoms superiority inspires a lot of struggles against colonial power, example of Prince Diponegoro who bravely against the invaders until the cause of Dutch cash deficits to maintain self-esteem just because their ancestors. From this we can meilhat how self-esteem in the world of Java really is important, but should not be separated from respect, ashamed and afraid.

During the New Order influence of Java

Superiority of Java during Indonesia's New Order have brought out from a variety of thorny issues during the Old Order. Suharto as leader of the New Order is a pure java which is strongly influenced by the philosophies and traditions of Java, there is even a mention that the New Order regime of java is a semi-monarchy aka country that was almost like a royal new java. Why not, democracy is being hailed not really democracy, but a Java-style democracy with the concepts of Java that brought the government at this stage called the corruption, of collusion and nepotism.

Manunggaling kawula gusti which is a philosophy of life which culminate primordialism bring understanding. The King and people of a single bi interrelated and complementary. But the concept became one when the leader of the subjects arbitrarily. On behalf of the promotion of development of existing national stability that asks tumbal thousands of people, such as cases G30/S/PKI, Malari, Balibo, petrus, Tanjung Priok massacre in 1984, the Santa Cruz cemetery massacre in East Timor in 1991, and others.

The structure of government in Indonesia has a tendency ethnocentrism and primordialism. Most government officials at the central level to regions occupied by the java. It may be easier centralized policies at that time. As quoted from koraninternet.com following:

According to Rosegrant (1997), the participation of Indonesian rice consumption reached 96.87 percent today. So far the food security of this nation is always measured by how much production and government-held rice stocks. Policy of en-rice-ment causes local food wisdom uprooted. Consumption of sago, tubers (hipere), corn, thiwul, have switched to rice. What happened next was like a starving cases in Lembata (NTT), Yahukimo (Papua), and the last on the island of Karimun.

The question is, why should the rice? Why did the government just "tinkering with" local culture already established in the community. In addition to rice because of the regime by analyzing its level of consumption of carbohydrates, rice is also the staple food of the Javanese nobility. Grassroots rarely eat rice rice. Rice consumption as a benchmark for the progress of a locality, so that when these standards apply some areas of the country look backward than others.

On the other hand, the New Order's success led Indonesia out of crisis, revolution, but in its development can not be avoided potential conflicts that flourished in Java. At that time anti-China, deeply felt, especially the conflicts between people covered China, Java and ethnicity. Basically, many conflicts of interests that underlie the development of sentiments, including the economy. The famous Javanese people resilient, diligent and open there are many crossed by the achievements of China, ethnic, especially in the economic field. Apparently because people tend to be satisfied with java or something that is often called nrimo ing  pandum, in contrast to China, made a principled progressive. In other cases, China also has a share mentioned in G30/S/PKI movement.

Javanese feudalism in the New Order government

"Origin of father happy/asal bapak senang", or little known by the abbreviation ABS is a legacy of feudalism in the Javanese tradition of the past. Stratification of society that brought the officials time to create a legitimacy of power is absolute because mboten pareng subordinate supervisors denied, rightly or wrongly lower strata should ngendika more on top. Bottom-up policy of obligatory to be implemented without consideration of the impact or the other, so everyone said "from father happy, all could be arranged".