Spiritual Reposition in Tantri Kamandaka Comic Book and Reliefs of Jago Temple: Story of the Friendship of Swans and Tortoises

Globalization in the perspective of social interaction, is happening all around the world as a form of new world order; various cultures around the world are related and affecting each other, so as what is happening in Indonesia. Globalization with the development of information and communication media, has brought positive impact in the development of sciences and other things. But it also has negative impacts: culture shock, awareness crisis, and spiritual crisis; while spirituality becomes an important aspect in human as an individual facing reality. It is the control of human’s life. Starting from the said problem, it is a necessity to have a strategy to strengthen the nation’s identity sourced from Indonesian local wisdom. This is a strategic cross-cultural paradigm move in globalization by going universal-particular, sourced from Tantri Kamandaka which is based on Jago temple reliefs that is contextualized on current era. This research uses qualitative interpretivism method with interdisciplinary approach to explain the spiritual values from comic, specifically on the story “The Friendship of Swans and Tortoises” as an educational media effort for value internalization to build character integrity awareness on young generation.