@nugger @Jens_Rasmussen @Waldbrand let me tell you something about government cultural works. Indonesians basically never existed until the Dutch united the whole archipelago in the 19th century. Our national language is Malay with some Dutch words added into it. The majority of people weren't and still aren't Malays either, they're Javanese. So there's not really anything unifying us apart from the shared heritage of Dutch colonialism, which is probably the reason why people love talking about le evil Dutch all day long.

It has been more than 70 years since the declaration of independence, ethnic rivalry is still strong in some places and lots of people prefer to call themselves based on their ethnicity, like Javanese, Sundanese and Bataknese. Although change has happened too, children are now taught the national language first before their local language, in the curriculum they're taught about the Indonesian history as well, mainly about the Independence war and the struggle after that, almost none about the period before that. The result is there, children grow up to be Indonesian first and then placed their ethnicity after that, race mixing between ethnicity are becoming more prevalent, this goes so far as to create a new kind of history, centered around the belief of Indonesian heritage given by the ancient Majapahit kingdom, which united the archipelago.

If you go to Jakarta, you will see this brand new people who almost rejected everything about their ethnic heritage, only using it as a tool to get closer to people. The place is a unholy melting pot of brown people coming from thousands of islands. The central government make sure that this people are being bred to replace the older ones, making sure that the country is unified from the conflict that would arise like in the Spice Islands, Timor and Papua. I don't know where they're trying to go with this thing, they don't seem to understand a political view apart from their Liberal foundation found in the constitution.