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Welcome back to World Missions Wednesday! In this weeks episode we're moving away from Africa and heading back to Asia. Meet the Sunda of Indonesia!

How Unreached Are They?

> The Sunda are the largest unreached people group in Indonesia - Joshua Project

The Sunda are only 0.49% Christian (and seemingly only 0.05% Evangelical). That means that out of 37 million of them, there are only 183,900 Christians for all 37 million. Thats roughly one Christian for every 200-300 unbelievers. Joshua Project estimates that there are at least 700 overseas workers needed for this one people group.

Thankfully there is a Bible translation, in full, in their language (Sunda)

What Are They Like?

> For many generations, the Sunda have lived in West Java. Traditionally, the Sunda have been farmers, both for their own needs and for commerce. Due to the fertility of the land, West Java is a great area for farming and plantations. This area has long been known as the "rice basket" of Indonesia. In addition to growing rice, there are also tea plantations, particularly in the mountainous areas. Secondary crops and fruits also grow well and abundantly. The Sunda are famous for their friendliness. They are similar to the Javanese, particularly in the way they dress and the way they farm. The Sunda people place more emphasis on family and openness, whereas the Javanese tend to be more formal and hierarchical. Another difference from the Javanese is that Sundanese have a stronger devotion to Islam. Sundanese people believe that having a Sundanese character (kasundaan) is the best path of life. This character can be summed up as cageur (healthy), bageur (good), beneur (right), singeur (introspective) and pinteur (intelligent). This type of character has been pursued by people of western Java since the days of the Kingdom Salakanagara (130-362 AD). Although they live on the island of Java, the Sunda do not consider where they live to be "Java", but "tatar Sunda" (the land of Sunda), with its own culture. Someone who moves from West Java to Central Java or East Java is said to have moved "to Java." Industrial development and large housing projects have begun to change the Sunda way of life. Many Sunda no longer work as farmers. Many hold influential positions in the government, while others have become competent business people. In Sunda society, there are three authorities with strong influence: (1)

INTRODUCTION

This post will be another in a series of posts about the Philippines and Indonesia. The first post was How Indonesia and the Philippines Define and Organize Ethnicity. This post is more geopolitical and economic-focused.

The purpose of this post is to examine how the Indonesian elite, political and economic, see the Philippines, and the impact of Indonesia's new capital on the Philippines. Here is a map with the location of the new capital, and a post explaining why Indonesia is moving its capital, Indonesia’s New Capital: New Nusantarian Era?

https://preview.redd.it/u4o02ppmcra81.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=651be73320b081d5b605e442e9cc646a73b8e362

There are four main points of this post are:

1. The Indonesian state sees Filipinos as kindred spirits, largely because Indonesia and the Philippines are large suppliers of overseas migrant labor. In addition, it views Filipinos through Indonesia's ethnic-cultural framework.
2. Based on the total number of civil servants assigned to the new capital, the final population of the new capital will be much larger than the projection circulating in the media. This means the impact will be much larger than anticipated for Indonesia and the Philippines.
3. The Philippines is militarily significant for Indonesia because it was the main invasion route used by the Japanese to invade the Dutch East Indies during the Second World War. Security presence in the Celebes-Sulu area will be increased sharply once the capital has been moved.
4. The Philippines is a major export and investment destination for Indonesian companies. The hope is the new capital will spur the creation of a north-south economic corridor that stretches from Beijing/Seoul to East Java/Central Java. The Philippines will benefit not just from closer ties with Indonesia, but also increased economic and trade flowing from North Asia through this corridor.

Since the fall of Suharto in 1998, there has been an intensification of Indonesian activity in the Indonesian provinces adjacent to the Philippines. As explained in [Indonesia’s New Capital: New Nusantarian Era?](https://www.reddit.com/r/IntlScholars/comments/

INTRODUCTION

This post will attempt to explain the differences in how Filipinos and Indonesians see ethnicity and the nature of the two societies. A couple of years ago I did some posts on the Philippines and Indonesia like TL: DR Reasons for the failure of the Philippines’s foreign policy,

The post will be organized as follows

1. LATITUDINAL VS LONGITUDINAL ARCHIPELAGIC STATE
2. AUSTRONESIAN CORE
   1. ETHNICITY AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT
3. ETHNO-CULTURAL DIAGRAM
4. RELIGIOUS-CULTURAL LAYERS
5. MULTIPLE SOCIETIES VS MAINSTREAM FILIPINO SOCIETY
6. HIGHLAND AND LOWLAND SOCIETIES
7. BLOOD, LOCATION, AND CULTURE

Many, like Samuel Huntington's in his book Clash of Civilization (1996) label Indonesia as Islamic, and the Philippines as Western, but beyond these simple labels, people are left hanging. Little is done to describe the structure of the societies, how ethnic groups and religious minorities are organized. The four takeaways from this post are:

• Indonesia is a longitudinal archipelagic state-aligned by trade and a shared lingua franca. The Philippines is a latitudinal archipelagic state orientated loosely by trade with China, and later on, shared religion.
• In Maritime Southeast Asia, there are cultural layers, such as Sanskritization, Islam, and Christianity.
• The Indonesian state believes Indonesia consists of multiple societies. While most Filipinos and the Philippines state assume there is mainstream Filipino society.
• The Indonesian state defines ethnicity by blood and keeps detailed records of regions' ethnic composition. The Philippines' state doesn't keep such data.

This post will be the beginning of a series of posts I will do about Indonesia and the Philippines. The purpose of this particular post is to provide a very rough framework for looking at ethnicity, culture, and religion in Indonesia and the Philippines. I won't get into the "why", that will be for subsequent posts.

I decided to do this post, because Indonesia's importance to the Philippines is understated, and its importance will increase markedly after Indonesia moves its

My mother's Minahasan. I've heard someone telling their daughter to never get involved romantically with Minahasan men because they're a bunch of fvckboys aka suka main perempuan (didn't know how else to put it lol), drink excessively, and party too much.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Traditional Indonesian music seems to go really hard e.g gamelan, bedug, gandrang, lebaran songs etc but pop music is always so mellow, slow and chill.

Maybe it's just the trend across all of Asia but I've noticed that people seem to prefer acoustic covers of western music as opposed to the more energetic originals.

Sometimes I feel the acoustic covers have all the life sucked out of them or completely miss the vibe of what made the original good. Like, I just listened to my girlfriend playing slow acoustic versions of My Chemical Romance. Who heard the electric guitar, aggro marching band drums, the suicidal lyrics of the original and thought "this is good but it needs ukulele and indie chick vocals"???

Can you guys recommend some Indonesian popular tunes that go really hard?

To be clear, smooth & chill music isn't bad. Kunto Aji, Payung Teduh make really good chill Indonesian music and there are probably thousands more, but still, why is there so much chill pop music?

Edit:

Currently listening to Sundanese music. It's like the audio version of a massage. Point taken, traditional music is very chill too.

I guess the famous Indonesian music is Balinese Gamelan, Wayang Kulit and my personal experience of Indonesian music has been at festivals and Lebaran so I probably just heard a lot of energetic percussion.

Point taken y'all I retract my half baked music theory

Ight so i was playing Sunda into Malaya, i got all the necessary things for it and i formed it. When i went to check the ideas the remained Sundanese, not Malayan. I went to the Malaya eu4 wiki and it says it has its own ideas, i also watched videos of other people forming it and they got the new ideas. Help me please.

As a preface, to my knowledge, clauses following yang (the relative pronoun) in Indonesian and Malay is always passive when a pronoun or a noun precedes the verb. An example of this is:

> 1) Apa perkara yang kalian sesali?
> apa perkara yang kalian ∅- sesal -i
> what thing REL 2P PASS-regret-BEN
> What things do you guys regret?

In order for the verb to undergo the active voice, the agent of the verb has to be the same as in the clause preceding yang, as in:

> 2) Kamu yang menyesalinya?
> > kamu yang me- nyesal-i =nya
> 2P REL ACT-regret-BEN=3S
> You're the one regretting it?

However, at least since the new year, I've been seeing sentences that use the active voice after yang, even though there's a pronoun preceding the verb. An example is the title of a post I just saw:

> 3) Apa perkara yang korang menyesal?
> apa perkara yang korang me- nyesal
> what thing REL 2P ACT-regret
> What thing do you guys regret?

The grammar in sentence 3 is totally foreign to me, a native Indonesian speaker. Granted the sentence is in Malay, but I assure you there are Indonesians who would use the similar active verb grammar after a pronoun in yang clauses (just replace korang with kalian, and there you go). This has happened across numerous social media platforms: Instagram, Twitter, and even Webtoons. One exception is books; inside the many books that I have, I have yet to encounter such grammar.

As a comparison, let's see how would Javanese, a language that would form the same sentence using the same method:

> 4) *Opo perkoro sing mbok nyesel?
> Opo perkoro sing mbok nyesel
> what thing REL 2S regret\ACT
> What thing do you regret?

The sentence then would be ungrammatical, as the active voice is considered improper after a pronoun in a relative cause. To make it grammatical, the verb has to be changed to seseli, with the passive voice. This applies true to the languages surrounding Indonesian and Malay with the same/similar grammar: Sundanese, Lampung, Balinese, etc.

So this made me wonder: when did people, be it Indonesians or Malays, start using the active voice grammar, as seen in sentence 3? Was it an innovation, or has it been present since the olden days, seeing as other languages don't share the same grammar?

Do your worst!

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

Hindus, on the other hand, never had any beef.

I won't be doing that today!

Whether it's city, province/state, races, ethnic group rivalries, etc.