The political (re)constructions of Sukarno and Pancasila

A Garuda Pancasila mural painted on a wall. The Pancasila was promulgated by Sukarno but revisionist history tried to take that away from Indonesia’s independence leader. — ANN

TO construct and reconstruct is a basic human activity. We build physical things, they deteriorate and get destroyed, we reconstruct and build them up again.

But when we talk about social constructs, they exist only in people’s minds to interpret the world. In no field is this truer than in history and politics where interpretations of events and figures can be distorted and manipulated, and you can even kill someone more than once.