Ulasan Buku: #Reset Indonesia (2025)

Buku #Reset Indonesia oleh Farid Gaban dan tim mengeksplorasi kondisi sosial-politik Indonesia dalam konteks pembangunan yang tidak merata. Mereka menawarkan alternatif melalui konsep ekonomi yang berkelanjutan dan pemikiran kritis terhadap sistem yang ada. Karya ini menjadi ajakan untuk merekonstruksi bangsa dengan demokrasi yang adil dan inklusif. … Check it out!Ulasan Buku: #Reset Indonesia (2025)

Book Review: #Reset Indonesia (2025)

#Reset Indonesia, authored by Farid Gaban, Dandhy Laksono, Yusuf Priambodo, and Benaya Harobu, critiques Indonesia’s socio-economic struggles while proposing a transformative vision for the nation. It advocates for decentralization, ecological balance, and social equity, challenging conventional narratives of progress and urging a collective reset. The book serves as both a critique and a call to action. … Check it out!Book Review: #Reset Indonesia (2025)

The Sound of Control: Manufacturing Islamic Pop

Awakening Music has shaped modern Islamic pop for nearly two decades, portraying an ethical, sanitized masculinity while sidelining female voices. While it promises spiritual expression, it operates as a controlled, commercialized culture industry. Genuine artistry thrives outside its structure, revealing a need for authentic, uncurated expressions of faith and creativity. … Check it out!The Sound of Control: Manufacturing Islamic Pop

In a Nutshell, You’re Still in Denial

Kurzgesagt’s soothing narratives on global conflict mask a deeper reality. Their data-driven approach may appear objective, but it trivializes genuine human suffering and spiritual despair. By equating peace solely with absence of violence, they overlook crises of meaning, identity, and environment. This sanitized perspective risks anesthetizing our understanding of true chaos. … Check it out!In a Nutshell, You’re Still in Denial

Redemption Is Not Innocence

By Diana Susanti, with editorial by Angga Bassoni Al Barkah Assalaamu ‘Alaikum, Almighty blessed the peacemakers We use “redemption” as if it means going back. But true redemption isn’t innocence—it’s truth after complicity. It’s choosing to stand in the wound you helped create, and instead of turning away, becoming part of the healing.Check it out!Redemption Is Not Innocence

Mystical Is Not Horror: What Media Gets Wrong About Kejawen

Diana Susanti, alongside Angga Bassoni Al Barkah and Ayisha Abdul Basith, examines the misrepresentation of Kejawen, a Javanese mystical tradition, in horror media. The article argues that mysticism relates to personal transformation and reverence for the unseen, contrasting sharply with the sensationalism of horror, which distorts cultural and spiritual heritage. … Check it out!Mystical Is Not Horror: What Media Gets Wrong About Kejawen

Beyond the Kejawen Cliché: Understanding Javanese Alienation in a Post-Colonial Capitalist Landscape

In her deeply reflective essay, Diana Susanti peels away the romanticized layers of Kejawen to reveal a more painful truth: the Javanese identity, far from being preserved, is continuously fractured under the weight of post-colonial nationalism and capitalist hegemony. … Check it out!Beyond the Kejawen Cliché: Understanding Javanese Alienation in a Post-Colonial Capitalist Landscape

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