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Straw Hat Republic

Monday, August 18, 2025

The youth are waving the flag of the Straw Hat Pirates from One Piece. It projects a dream alternative to a nationalism that has been usurped by mere parades and ceremonies.

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EVERY August, the Indonesian sky is painted red and white. Flags are flown from fences, cars, and crooked bamboo poles in empty lots. Parades and state addresses are beamed onto every television screen, and “love for the homeland” is repeated like a mantra. Amidst the frenzy of patriotism, we forget a crucial question: what is really being celebrated?

Slavoj Žižek calls modern nationalism an inauthentic form of unification. It is n

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