Modernity is often considered (by whom?:p) as a threat to indigenous communities, including the Kanekes people popularly known as Baduy. After the polemics of tourism in Baduy, the request to remove internet signals in Inner Baduy, some time ago the case of Rumsyah, a Baduy girl, and a cellphone giveaway emerged which provoked netizen debates from various perspectives and discussions—from trivial to heavy-weight academic dispute. These things raise many questions: how do we imagine modernity and indigenous communities? Is modernity really a threat? A threat to whom: indigenous communities or our imagination of indigenous communities? Do we view it as the exoticism of a remaining realm at the edge of civilization with a (fe)male gaze or a tourist gaze?
