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A dresser in the Palace Though originally a local style, in a sense acts as the ethos and vision of life in the
of Luwu, South Sulawesi, that each locality has its own dynamic political behavior pattern?
which still contains style, however, as recorded by the local Now, the question arises, what is the
ancient historical collective memory, each locality was traditional form of Islamic state in
manuscripts. to see itself as part of a “sending and Southeast Asia? What is the foundation
Source: Directorate of receiving” chain of divine guidance, of political tradition as mentioned above?
History and Cultural i.e. Islam. This memory was not just This talk hopefully will be able to explain
Values, Ministry of recorded, but also being experienced the political and cultural behavior of the
Education and Culture continuously with the establishment of community of Islamic power centers.
of the Republic of a network of religious scholars, namely
Indonesia, 2007. between teachers and students, students
and the fellow pupils. Thus, although
the conversion event was a local event,
which experiences a style of cultural
encounters, variously-mixed with differing
cultural accountability as well, but the
various networks are not only channels
of the spread of religious thought, but
also, and no less importantly, putting
cultural and ideological foundations and
also ideals of the relationship between
the king’s and the servants and both with
the Almighty.

Inflicted upon the local reality and pattern
differences of the cultural encounters,
which form the structural base of power,
which is also local, the cultural and
ideological foundation will form a political
tradition of each power center. But what
is the cultural basis of Islamic power
center that in turn will also determine the
character of its political tradition, which

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