The diaspora church in Indonesia: Mangunwijaya on nationalism, humanism, and Catholic Praxis *. From: Journal of Ecumenical Studies | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: Mujiburrahman | COPYRIGHT 2001 Journal of Ecumenical Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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This article discusses Y. B. Mangunwijaya's reflections on nationalism and its relation to the Catholic Church in Indonesia. His reflections are basically a movement to the past in order to criticize the present and to view the future. Having reflected on the original ideas of the founders of the Indonesian state, he argued that Sukarno's Guided Democracy and Suharto's New Order deviated from them. After the fall of Suharto, Mangunwijaya suggested that it was time for Indone...