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Joget Amerta is a religious practice which has been created by Suprapto Suryadharmo. The main objective of discussing Joget Amerta is to describe how Javanese responds to practice Buddhism in the specific culture. The response produces specific practice which is difference from other cultures, both characteristically and practically. The uniqueness of Joget Amerta can only be found in Javanese culture because it is originally born from culture of Java, and it results from the flexibility of Javanese people in accepting various incoming religions from outside world. I argue Joget Amerta shows the highly capability of Javanese people to produce particular religious practice which is totally different from the original practice coming from the original countries, as it is well known that Buddhism was brought by Siddhartha Gautama from India. In order to enrich scholars? debate on the issue of practicing world religion based on local culture; I raise two research questions in this paper. The first, what are the basic movements of Joget Amerta? The second, why Joget Amerta is considered as one of religious practice of Javanese Buddhism? In accordance to the case of Joget Amerta, I assume what happens after the contestation between Buddhism and Javanism is syncretism. It means that religious doctrine from Buddhism has been successfully transformed into specific practice with unique characteristic.
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