The concept that drives the Punkasila project is to distil the cacophony of disparate political, military, religious, cultural and bureaucratic organisations that constitute the Indonesian body politic to their abbreviated form of acronyms. The genius of the pancasila as propaganda, condensed through its motto, "Unity in Diversity", is to unify the wide ranging cultures of the Indonesian archipelago and to suggest that it is the five principles that they have shared in common since time immemorial. Together with the band, Kesminas wrote 17 songs based on selected Indonesian acronyms and abbreviations. The song titles are in fact the complete lyrics (with completed nomenclature echoed in Bahasa Indonesian). These acronyms became a set of abbreviated "songs" performed in a frenetic progressive-punk-rock idiom. While reading The Politics of Indonesia by Dr Damien Kingsbury, Kesminas found himself continually referring to the index of abbreviations and acronyms and it is this index that he chose as the basis for PUNKASILAĆ¢s "lyrics". ![]() The name, PUNKASILA, which literally means punk principles, derives from pancasila, the five tenets devised for the unitary basis of Indonesian nationhood.
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