Globalisation, Nationhood, and Religiousity: A Personal Experience

Nationhood is a learned response to globalisation, while nationalism may be a mere unproductive tribal glorification. Religiosity can significantly help a nation to make positive sense of globalisation and  build up nationhood. Religiosity necessitates a long-ranging, learning, creative mind-process. This will eventually lead to the finding of the unique role of generations in space and time in the ever changing global landscape. Young generations shall take the risk of exercising their creative mind in finding their own unique role in history. Indonesian unique, positioning, role will largely be based upon its natural destiny as an archipelago with its vast diversity of natural resources –-both terrestrial and marine-, and other social capital as an innovative sense making of those endowed natural resources. Neglecting this natural destiny has proved to be detrimental to its own development as imposed during Dutch colonization -–the most rudimentary form of globalization-- of Indonesia for more than 300 years. Meaningful learning is key to nurture religiosity. It will help creating a more joyful, if difficult, Indonesian experience that shall lead to a healthy and productive nationhood. And at last, this kind of nationhood that will help Indonesian to benefit from globalization becoming the winner,  not the looser, of the globalization game.