Physically distant from the national center and vastly outnumbered in an archipelago dominated by Muslims, the Christian Minahasans maintain great disimilarities with the rest of Indonesians. Applying multi-sited ethnography, this study questions in what ways do world views and distinct historical, socio-cultural and political situatedness, as well as actors’ mental maps of the global world play out in everyday basis? And how are local cultural values are contested in this fast changing of global order?