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creators_name: Zubair, Achmad Charris
title: Religion in the Post-Truth Society
ispublished: pub
subjects: agama200
divisions: uinsiana_proc
full_text_status: public
keywords: religioun, post-truth
abstract: 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?
date: 2019-10-23
date_type: published
series: prosiding
number: -
publisher: UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA
place_of_pub: YOGYAKARTA
pagerange: xii-xv
pages: 4
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 2715-0550
book_title: PROCEEDINGS Adab-International Conference on Information and Cultural Sciences “Cultural Literacy and Islam in the Post-Truth Society”
official_url: http://aiconics.uin-suka.ac.id
citation:   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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