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The Religious Background of the Java War 1825 1830
Nov, 2010
On October 4th 2010, the Graduate School of Universitas Gadjah Mada held the first general lecture for new students of 2010/2011 as it was opened by the Director of The Graduate School, Prof. Dr. Hartono. Prof. Dr. Peter Carey from Oxford University gave the lecture of "The Religious Background of the Java War 1825-1830", a product of his dissertation research about Pangeran Diponegoro.
Peter Carey explained that his focus of research was on the figure and personal life of Diponegoro, not his figure as the commander of war. The Diponegoro's personality was obviously portrayed through photographs and paintings by Raden Saleh. Although he belonged to the palace noble family, he dressed like an ordinary person, with robe, serban and button made from wood like santri or religious student. Diponegoro was easy to interact with others, generous, and never haughty to common people.
Diponegoro was a descendant of Mataram palace noble family whose mother was from Tembayat. Diponegoro personified as a Prince of Warrior that gained a lot of education from outside the palace or in pesantren, Islamic religious school. He was mostly influenced by his teacher's ways of thinking, Kyai Mojo. His faith was much influenced by local belief and the guidance of his ancestors. He used "feeling" or presentiment's awareness to analyze human's character of people that he met.
Diponegoro liked to travel as he travelled from Imogiri to Nusambangan, he even made a travel from Imogiri to Makassar. In Makassar, he actively held praying forum and until today there is a mystic path in Makassar which is still influenced by the figure of Diponegoro.
The struggle that Diponegoro had craved for was like the Wali's accomplishments within governmental system as Wali was considered as friend of God. He wanted to build Islamic state where he would perform as a Wali. Among the tasks were to clean the litter in Java until the Dutch and the infidels left Java, to promote Islam and to protect the Javanese culture. He made the Javanese language compulsory and forbid the Melayu language. Such struggle eventually led to conflicts among Satriya and Santri communities that they were uneasy to work together.
In his retired life, Diponegoro suffered from malaria. Then, the British's coming to Java, triggered an ideology war between the Dutch (republic) and England (Monarchy). British defeated Dutch as 80 % of Dutch army died and 80% of Indonesian died. British took over almost all of Javanese manuscripts except Tempuran manuscripts.
The lecture was very interesting and provoking the enthusiasm of the audience. In discussion session, one of the students said that the spirit of Diponegoro was still inspiring as it was utilized in 19th century for a congress of Islamic syariah and PNI marked by the installation of Diponegoro's documentations.
The story of Diponegoro can be read by people soon that it has been translated into Indonesian within 1000 pages. He was asked when people could get the book, he replied, "It will be published in the next two years!", while taking pictures with the audience.
taken from : http://crcs.ugm.ac.id/
Nov, 2010
On October 4th 2010, the Graduate School of Universitas Gadjah Mada held the first general lecture for new students of 2010/2011 as it was opened by the Director of The Graduate School, Prof. Dr. Hartono. Prof. Dr. Peter Carey from Oxford University gave the lecture of "The Religious Background of the Java War 1825-1830", a product of his dissertation research about Pangeran Diponegoro.
Peter Carey explained that his focus of research was on the figure and personal life of Diponegoro, not his figure as the commander of war. The Diponegoro's personality was obviously portrayed through photographs and paintings by Raden Saleh. Although he belonged to the palace noble family, he dressed like an ordinary person, with robe, serban and button made from wood like santri or religious student. Diponegoro was easy to interact with others, generous, and never haughty to common people.
Diponegoro was a descendant of Mataram palace noble family whose mother was from Tembayat. Diponegoro personified as a Prince of Warrior that gained a lot of education from outside the palace or in pesantren, Islamic religious school. He was mostly influenced by his teacher's ways of thinking, Kyai Mojo. His faith was much influenced by local belief and the guidance of his ancestors. He used "feeling" or presentiment's awareness to analyze human's character of people that he met.
Diponegoro liked to travel as he travelled from Imogiri to Nusambangan, he even made a travel from Imogiri to Makassar. In Makassar, he actively held praying forum and until today there is a mystic path in Makassar which is still influenced by the figure of Diponegoro.
The struggle that Diponegoro had craved for was like the Wali's accomplishments within governmental system as Wali was considered as friend of God. He wanted to build Islamic state where he would perform as a Wali. Among the tasks were to clean the litter in Java until the Dutch and the infidels left Java, to promote Islam and to protect the Javanese culture. He made the Javanese language compulsory and forbid the Melayu language. Such struggle eventually led to conflicts among Satriya and Santri communities that they were uneasy to work together.
In his retired life, Diponegoro suffered from malaria. Then, the British's coming to Java, triggered an ideology war between the Dutch (republic) and England (Monarchy). British defeated Dutch as 80 % of Dutch army died and 80% of Indonesian died. British took over almost all of Javanese manuscripts except Tempuran manuscripts.
The lecture was very interesting and provoking the enthusiasm of the audience. In discussion session, one of the students said that the spirit of Diponegoro was still inspiring as it was utilized in 19th century for a congress of Islamic syariah and PNI marked by the installation of Diponegoro's documentations.
The story of Diponegoro can be read by people soon that it has been translated into Indonesian within 1000 pages. He was asked when people could get the book, he replied, "It will be published in the next two years!", while taking pictures with the audience.
taken from : http://crcs.ugm.ac.id/
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