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places but also the feeling of difference with other groups, which are in power. With the
spread of education—although mostly is in the lower level only—but they have started
to know the events and various thoughts in other places then should we still wonder if
the feeling of being in the same fate can also develop. If this has started then the process
towards developing nationalism which exceeds loyalty among the people of the same
village or even region with the same cultural legacy has also developed.
Then when the story has to come to an end, who will be wondering if when the time
has come and is over, the proud of being an Indonesian, which allegedly starts to develop
in the region of the Austronesians, has also become the belonging which cannot be apart
from the Eastern part of Indonesia, included in the Melanesians?

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