Expressive Culture

In essence the expressive culture that is controlled by the value of holiness and beauty are cultural values that look back. In religion, the most noble and sacred are the sacred books incarnate, when the gods and the gods communicate to people and its legal order, which in general can not be altered humans. Likewise in the art that once created all things not changing again, considered to be perfect. The artists are generally no longer fix the results of the finished creations.

Each era has its own art that must be weighed according to their size alone. This is another one with a progressive culture dominated by science and economics which together gave birth to the technology. The most important characteristic in science, economics, technology is the continuous progress that want to accomplish. When all know that science is something that is constantly changing, advanced.

What was achieved an expert at one time always be repaired by another expert, who can create theories that more true of the broader scope of thinking as well as laws that can be drawn up. Likewise with technology as the child of science, is always well developed, advanced parallel with the advancement of science as we can clearly see in the last 300 years. In economics it is also progress apparent, each new machine created a better or more results than the previous engine. Each new way of producing more efficient than how to make earlier. This is true in all fields so that the real economy that was always in progress.

Here seems to us that the notion of progress that is something new for the nation of Indonesia. We can examine the literature and the writings of the old Indonesian nation, surely we do not get the sense that progress, real progress has emerged in the Indonesian language in the end of this century, when the Indonesian nation began to meet with European culture that is progress. In fact, in Europe even though the understanding that progress is progress or a new understanding. JB Bury clearly says that the definition of progress is not in medieval culture in Europe, nor even in the culture at the beginning of the renaissance. 

But the first new form in the seventeenth century as a result of Descartes' philosophy that emphasizes two axioms, namely the ratio of human excellence and unchanging natural law change that. Together the two axioms of the work of Descartes thought capable of stopping not only authority but also the authority of the church thinkers of Greek and Roman.

Indonesian national culture based on indigenous Indonesian culture, Indian culture and Islamic culture and character of the new expressive with truly know the science and economic dynamic of modern culture, when the Indonesian nation to meet with European culture that brought the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, English, and French nation which has influenced cultural renaissance. 

In the beginning of the century XVI and XVII meeting was essentially just a meeting of trade but gradually that a progressive European culture is stronger and more successful than the culture of Indonesia. So one step at a major parts of the country occupied and controlled by their Indonesian. Gradually people became a nation that colonized Indonesia.

New in the nineteenth century the Dutch began trying to open their schools for the people of Indonesia and thus give the department a little understanding and knowledge of science, technology and modern economy. Indonesian nation's thirst for learning science, technology and modern economy to grow old grow large. 

How to become a symbol rather than thirst Kartini Indonesian nation will be mastered modern culture of science, technology and economy. In essence the independence movement and the rise of the Indonesian nation in every field from politics to art is driven and supported by the Indonesian people who have studied at the Dutch school. And start so many have been good at thinking and trying to be modern. That is centered on the idea that rational science that controls the law of natural reality. Viewed from this department of Indonesia's independence struggle against the Dutch, colonial Indonesia is the struggle in the modern cultural relations between the Dutch with the Indonesian nation led by the intelligentsia who have received education of modern culture.

Have appropriate that after independence there was no other possibility for Indonesia is to accelerate the development of modern culture in Indonesia is an independent country with roads promote science, technology and economics. Seeing huge potential in Indonesia's natural wealth in flora and fauna, mining goods and others essentially the ideals of a State which is progressive and prosperous Indonesia is not an empty goal but should be easily achievable.