relation: https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/37708/
title: Religion in the Post-Truth Society
creator: Zubair, Achmad Charris
subject: Agama (Religion)
description: In Mahabaratha epic story, Durma—a commader in  Baratha Yudha war from Kurawa side—was able to break the  Pandawa’s defensive forces. This led to Krishna’s fear that if  Durna continued to be in the side of Kurawas, Pandawa will  soon lose the battle.  Yet, Krishna got the the key of Durna’s weakness—  that he is too in love with his son Aswathama. Krishna used  the Durna’s weakness to build the strategy to break his  power. First, Arjuna was asked to create fake news about the  death of Aswathama, so Durna will be in deep misery and he will lose all his power. For  sure, Arjuna refused to do that. Even though he opposed Durna, he did not want to create  fake news as he also considered Durna as his teacher so he paid respect to him.  In other battle, Bima was commanded to killed the elephant troop in war, named  Istithama. Istithama had similar rhyme with Aswathama. When finally the elephant was  killed, Pandawa had announced that Istithama the elephant has died in the hand of Bima.  The death of Istithama was heard among Kurawa troop. However, as ‘Istithama’ has the  same rhyme with ‘Aswathama’, some Kurawans heard that ‘Aswathama’ who was killed in  the battle with Bima.  Soon the information that heard was ‘Aswathama’ (not ‘Istithama’) who killed in the  battle. At the end, the news had finally been heard by Durna. Durna decided to ask to one of  his student, that known for his honest reputation, named Yudhistira. He answered the  question—with his mumbled voice, “Yes, Isti was killed in the battle”.  Yudhistira, of course, told the truth. However, he talked with low voice so it was  heard unclearly. Unfortunately, Durna heard ‘Istithama’ as ‘Asthatama’. As Durna was  confused and worried, he was too shocked and broken hearted to accept the death of  Aswathama. He gave up to be a warrior and lived as an ascetic. Living in his grieve, he had  no resistance when Drestajumena killed himself.  From the excerpt of the scene of epic story “Mahabharata” above, even the ones that  considered as the most honest groups, which is Pandawa, used ‘hoax’ as part of strategies to  win the battle.  Who are they in this recent modern world situation?
publisher: UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA
date: 2019-10-23
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
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identifier: https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/37708/2/Daftar%20Isi.pdf
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identifier: https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/37708/3/Achmad%20Charris%20Zubair%20-%20Religion%20in%20the%20Post-Truth%20Society%20%28Pre%20Face%29.pdf
identifier:   Zubair, Achmad Charris  (2019) Religion in the Post-Truth Society.   In:  PROCEEDINGS Adab-International Conference on Information and Cultural Sciences “Cultural Literacy and Islam in the Post-Truth Society”.   prosiding  (-).  UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA, YOGYAKARTA, xii-xv.  ISBN 2715-0550     
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