'The Reality of One-Which-Is-Two'―Mosque Battles and Other Stories Notes on Architecture, Religion, and Politics in the Javanese World

摘要

This article considers the way Java responds to the global architectural flow of Islam. It shows the ways in which architecture became the site of negotiation between the global pan-Islamic Islam and the Javanese world. It then explores the dispute over identity and the representation of Islam in Java through various events in the present and the past. The article also discusses the debate over the design of a university's mosque in Jakarta in 1980s, the confrontation between Javanese and Middle Eastern Islam in the building of the first "great mosque" in the fifteenth century, the discourses of mosque building of the two previous postcolonial presidents of Indonesia, and the struggle in the intellectual culture of architecture today over what constitutes "Indonesian architecture." From these illustrative materials, issues are raised concerning history and agency, religion and politics, and architecture and ideology.