Retakan-retakan Kebudayaan: Antara Keterbatasan dan Ketakberhinggaan

Abstract

Globalization brings about not only amazing changes but threatening
leakages and ruptures to the local cultures. The flush of virtualization may
have blurred the borders founded by the cultures and in turn confused the
views of cultural identities. The identity of 'being Indonesia'
(“keindonesiaan”) is in the middle of a crisis. All the processes of
globalisation, streams of information through the media and
postmodernity have brought great impacts on this identity. This crisis is
worsened by the cultural leakages and ruptures in the whole building of the
culture. There are chances of mix, amalgamation and hybridisation.
Multidimensional rupture brings in external influences that should be
resolved by strengthening the substance of local identity. Some local
cultural principles seem to have been defoundationalised. Trans-cultural
phenomena appear simultaneously with the rise of hybrid identities and
ways of life. All this can end up in a cultural schizophrenic showing itself in
the fluidity of identity that doesn't care about the cultural foundations
anymore.