Most of the school’s proponents assume that today’s Indonesian people are in the position of being blind to their original values. Jakob Sumardjo, for instance, argued that most of today’s Indonesians "…forget to preserve their original values" and "…forgetting the past, forgetting the origin, they are like amnesiac people..." who "…ignore their own national history…" (Sumardjo 2003:23, 25). Consequently, they are ‘alienated’; estranged from ‘their mother cultures’ (Sumardjo 2003:53). The failure of Indonesian educational policy, to Jakob, is brought by this ‘blindness’ to Indonesian original culture (Sumardjo 2003:58). Therefore, the necessary task of this school of philosophy is to seek after, recall and revitalize the ethnic original values, since the values are ‘mothers’ ("lokalitas ialah ibu manusia") and people are ‘fathers’ of existence ("balita ialah bapak manusia") (Sumardjo 2003:22).