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Do you think that some Indonesian cultures are not compatible with
modern life nowadays? Which culture and why?
The way of thinking (Thinking sacredly)
problems. It can be prooved from the frame-work when they are facing problems.
For example; there were so many disasters had distroyed some areas of Indonesia
Padang, but what are their responses? Actually, they just justice by expressing that
these conditions were coming from God (media sources). This prooves that some
Indonesian still think sacredly that everything just comes from God without
considering other aspects that make it happen (just put hands up). It is suitable
with what had been stated by Nurcholis Majid in his book “Islamic Cultural”;
“Indonesian are still repressed by sacred postulates that make barren their creativities in
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to the future” that thinking sacredly made people barren in solving problem
because it puts off brilliant ideas. The writer agrees with these ideas since in holly
Qur’an has stated that “God will not consider (help) a group of communities till
they make it by them selves (effort)”. This indicates that human being as leader in
the world have to try to explain sign of natural phenomenon based on the law of
known with its' daily disaster and earthquake could solve their problem whether to
anticipate or prevent their own areas as the same phenomenon by analyzing and
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The way of thinking that everything is God centered without any other posibilities.
Imam Syafi’i
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studying it for long time ended by implementing their discovery to the problem,
so that it will not happen again in the next time or even it happens again, it will be
on the hands. It is also suitable with the holly Qur’an “, God put some studies in
every phenomenon, for those who want to think about it”. It prooved that
Japanese never thought that everything just coming from the God, but it is more
in reality. Just make action and effort to explain natural phenomenon scientificly
by analysing and studying with objective purpose than put hands up. In reality, in
western everything is based on the scientific research and it makes them more
could infer that thinking scientificly is more advantaged than thinking sacredly
and justice everything is God centered. So, if we want to solve our real problem,
thinking since it puts off our creativity and try to explain natural phenomenon by
Recently, there are many Indonesian try to release from this kind of
release from the prejudice custom to the scientific custom. It is indicated by many
Sardar, Ziauddin., Kembali ke masa depan, Jakarta: PT. Serambi Ilmu Semesta,
2003