Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), as in previous years, had carried out Academic Student Networking (ASN) activities in 2022. This time, UGM cooperates with Diponegoro University (UNDIP) and Andalas University (UNAND) to connect the literary intellectual bridge. Opened on October 10, 2022, Dr. Sukarjo Waluyo, M. Hum. as the Head of the Indonesian Literature Study Program and a representative of literary experts from FIB UNDIP observed the existence of the Spirit of Javanese Literature and Malay Literature in the New Face of Indonesian Literature.

The view on the existence of the spirit of traditional culture that fills the spaces of creative dialectics from the latest literary works was conveyed by Dr. Sukarjo Waluyo, M. Hum. This view became one of the important values that were photographed at the opening ceremony of the Academic Student Networking 2022. The theoretical scientific observations were intended to respond to the scientific research of the two resource persons who filled the activity.

In the first session of ASN 2022, the discussion “Kuntul Pucuk Mbulan: A Philological Reflection (Transformation of Kiai Cabolek’s Story)” by Taufiq Hakim, S.S., UGM Literature Masters student, and “Transformation of the Legend of the Kayo Hitam in Literary Literature” by Maya Febrianti, S.S., M .Hum., UNAND Postgraduate Literature Alumnus. The two speakers saw elements of traditional culture, especially the ‘spirit’ of Javanese and Malay culture in recent Indonesian literary works.

The view on the existence of the spirit of traditional culture that fills the spaces of creative dialectics from the latest literary works was conveyed by Dr. Sukarjo Waluyo, M. Hum. This view became one of the important values that were photographed at the opening ceremony of the Academic Student Networking 2022. The theoretical scientific observations were intended to respond to the scientific research of the two resource persons who filled the activity.

There is a spirit of traditional culture in the new Indonesian literary works, which can be said to have passed the time in which the culture experienced a golden age, Dr. Sukarjo Waluyo, M. Hum., sees this as an embodiment of spirit. In a simple sense, spirit is a spirit capable of pervading recent literary works. This process is not only a retelling of how a traditional culture is applied, but at the same time creating new meanings for past values that have existed.

This reinterpretation is also seen as an effort to create a new face that is considered more real with the current portrait of Indonesian society. Good Taufiq Hakim, S.S. who saw the reflection of the world of santri in Kuntul Pucuk Mbulan or Maya Febrianti, S.S., M.Hum., who captured the composition of culture in Orang Kayo Hitam, both said that the values of Javanese and Malay traditions permeated and permeated new Indonesian literary works. This matter also confirmed by Dr. Sukarjo Waluyo, M. Hum. as a literary mosaic in Indonesia. (Hamdan)