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[email protected] Yudi Latif, NegaraParipurna.Historisitas,RasionalitasdanAktualitasPancasila. Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2011, xxvii + 667 pp. isbn 9789792269475. Budhy Munawar-Rachman, Argumen Islam untuk Liberalisme. Jakarta: Grame- dia Widia Sarana Indonesia, 2010, lxiii + 234 pp. isbn 9789790812901. Susiyanto, Strategi misi Kristen Memisahkan Islam dan Jawa. Jakarta: Cakra Lintas Media, 2010, xxxiv + 267 pp. isbn 9789793785806. Amien Rais, Agenda mendesak Bangsa. Selamatkan Indonesia! Yogyakarta: ppsk Press, 2008, x + 321 pp. isbn 9789791761710. Ideology is not dead. Herbert Feith and Lance Castle’s classic Indonesian Polit- ical Thinking, 1945–1965 was first published in 1970 and delved into Indone- sian political thoughts through passages and speeches of various leaders. Their analyses show that there were four dominant ideological positions. Two were imported from the West (democratic socialism and radical nationalism) while two came from below (Islam and Javanese traditionalism). Another major work to be published on Indonesian ideology appeared much later when David Bourchier and Vedi Hadiz published Indonesian Politics and Society in 2003. Bourchier and Hadiz stressed on the shifting nature of Indonesian political thinking. ‘Just as Indonesia itself is not a ‘natural’ entity, there are no ‘natural’ or permanent factors that divide it. Any discussion of cleavages and streams © farabi fakih, 2015 | doi: 10.1163/22134379-17102007 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported (cc-by-nc 3.0) License.