Pancasila as Indonesia's State Ideology from Javanese Perspective

Pancasila's role as Indonesia's state ideology started its existence since June 1st 1945, when Sukarno delivered his influential speech at the meeting of Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence during the final year of Japanese occupation in Indonesia. Sukarno's speech on Pancasila was then put into Indonesia's Constitution preamble, just one day after Sukarno and Hatta proclaimed Indonesia's independence. Since then Pancasila becomes the foundation of Indonesia's unity even though Indonesia has huge cultural diversity. However, Pancasila's values are already in Indonesia's culture long before Sukarno's speech, hence Pancasila is the reflection of Indonesian's way of life, which is known as Adat. While Adat reflects Indonesia's diversity, Pancasila brings all these diversity into unity which ensures Indonesia's existence as an Independent nation. One of the main influential culture in Indonesia's statehood is Javanese, this paper argues that without understanding Javanese culture it is impossible to understand Pancasila as a whole