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Using various artistic approaches,
artists paint the daily lives of
Mutual Cooperation, fishermen and farmers working
together to achieve prosperity and
Creating Together happiness. Their artwork continues
to remind us of the importance of
working together.

In a society, the freedom of one
citizen cannot be separated from
her or his dependence on another
citizen. Everyone has to play their role
so that their combined efforts can
The lives and traditions of the yield a result that is impossible to
Indonesian people cannot be achieve without thinking, planning,
separated from the notion and cooperating together. A dance
of gotong royong, or mutual performance of Saman-Seudati, a
cooperation. People across wayang shadow puppet play, or the
Indonesia work together to Pakarena dance, can only be performed
produce greater outcomes if each individual works together and
than what could be achieved coordinates harmoniously.
by working individually without
cooperating. Inspired by the aspiration to create a
free nation, Wage Rudolf Supratman
Sukarno defines gotong royong: began to compose the national
"Gotong royong is to work our anthem Indonesia Raya in 1924.
fingers to the bones together, Sukarno wrote about his ideas of
to sweat together, and to strive women and their roles in attaining
together. The benefit of our works independence in his book Sarinah that
is for all of us, the result of our was published in the 1960s. 3
sweat is for our happiness. Ho-
lopis kuntul-baris for our interest! Even if in the modern world, works
That is Gotong Royong! " of art are made by individuals,
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their successes in production and
Gotong royong has an important distribution are determined by the
meaning in our society as the degree of collaboration among
essence of the unity of our the involved parties. We uphold
nationhood, of equal prosperity, the importance of copyrights, but
and of our belief in God. Sukarno collaboration and gotong royong are
even referred to it as the Ekasila still required to support the success
or the essence of Pancasila. 2 of creative work.