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	Hindu Council UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The following preliminary outline of this movement is to provide an appraisal of some of the deep social divisions and widely shared utopian aspirations in contemporary Indonesian society which are set to shape the immediate future of this fragile nation.
		While many Javanese have retained aspects of their indigenous and Hindu traditions through the centuries of Islamic influence, under the banner of 'Javanist religion' (kejawen) or a non-orthodox 'Javanese Islam' (abangan, cf.
		Geertz 1960), no more than a few isolated communities have consistently upheld Hinduism as the primary mark of their public identity.
	www.hinducounciluk.org /special.htm (5862 words)

	AllRefer.com - Indonesia - Islam \| Indonesian Information Resource
		These historical processes gave rise to enduring tensions between orthodox Muslims and more syncretistic, locally based religion--tensions that were still visible in the early 1990s.
		On Java, for instance, this tension was expressed in a contrast between santri and abangan (see Glossary), an indigenous blend of native and Hindu-Buddhist beliefs with Islamic practices sometimes also called Javanism, kejawen, agama Jawa, or kebatinan (see Glossary).
		In contrast to the Mecca-oriented philosophy of most santri, there was the current of kebatinan, which is an amalgam of animism, Hindu-Buddhist, and Islamic--especially Sufi--beliefs.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/indonesia/indonesia52.html (1099 words)

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