Innovation, style and spectacle in wayang: Purbo Asmoro and the evolution of an Indonesian performing art

Abstract

the Pancasila by a lower ranked Australian army officer. All countries make and usually take seriously foundational myths, so Indonesia is not alone in this respect. However, it is more than usually sensitive to critical examination of the organization of the state and its formally unstated concentric circle principle which, if applied in both directions, would raise some difficult questions about its methods of rule and the nature of its regional relations. In the meantime, Hatta’s ‘independent and active’ paradigm continues to serve as a useful – and legislated – frame for domestic consumption, even if it does not explain why Indonesia is reticent about its engagement with the wider world. Despite its interesting and often useful excursions into Indonesia’s foreign policy, in Hatta and Indonesia’s Independent and Active Foreign Policy, this compelling question remains largely unanswered.