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History of local communities or indigenous religion in Indonesia has a grim time particularly the local community in South Sulawesi. Since Indonesian independence day, especially after the 1950s, they always get pressures from the state and others. The independence of Indonesia, which ought to be a turning point of freedom of expression and speech, instead became a disaster of their existence in this country. As minority, most of their rights, espesially in a political and economic, are pressured and controlled by the state. In fact, when the Dutch and Japan colonialized Indonesian, they everlastingly promoted the discourse of adat (culture) revitalization, although it is not easy to separate those revitalization from the absence of political issues. Adat is regarded as cultural heritage which is very effective in the developing Indonesian civilization. Then, the Dutch and Japan government formed adat co-operations to strengthen their colonization. The Japan government also regarded that the golden age ancestors of Indonesia cannot be separated from the role of adat law and civilization inherited from generation to generation. Hence, Japan tried to encourage the intellectual, politicians and cultural observer of Indonesia to look back on their adat (tradition) as a source of inspiration (Bourchier, 2010: 129).
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