Abstract
The view of the “imagined community” that Benedict Anderson proposed in discussing the formation of the nation-state in Indonesia cannot be considered to be correct in that it overlooks two points. First, this region is not the homogeneous entity that Anderson considers it to be, since it consists of two world units, the Java World and the Maritime Southeast Asia World (Fig. 1). Second, Southeast Asia is a world of pantheism, where the force that attracts people takes the form of an electrode that emits a “point discharge” rather than the “canopy type” seen in Europe (Fig. 2 A, B).
