Differences tend to be common problem in Indonesia. Conflicts often happen because of difference. As we know, Indonesia is a country with so many differences of its citizen. I think we still remember about “Perang Sampit”, terrorism, conflict in Ambon, etc. Those are a very real sample how differences take role in making our unity fragile.
One of those differences is about different culture among Indonesia’s citizen. As we know, there are hundreds of cultures. They are spread from Sabang till Merauke. And of course, with different ethnicity, different way of thinking, different point of view in looking problems, multicultural issue can be a potential factor in making conflicts. Yes, Indonesia is a multicultural country. That is what we should be dealing as the citizen of Indonesia.
As an educated person, we can not ignore this. We have to do something to fix this and I propose education as the solution.
Education has a very important role in the development of Indonesia. Education also has a very big role in the development of every single person. So by adding multiculturalism issues in education, people will be grown up and develop with understandings of multiculturalism. So the awareness of multiculturalism better is taught at the early grade.
Actually, this thing has been added to curriculum. But it does not work as we are expected. We can see that so many conflicts still happen. People also still lack of tolerability in multiculturalism. So the implementation does not work optimally. Something should be changed. Teacher should not give the students this topic to be known only, but also to be understood and implemented in daily life.
Multiculturalism is a very crucial problem nowadays. But as the citizen of a country that consists of so many cultures, we can not be blind about this. We should be aware of this in order to keep us united. This is not an easy problem to be solved or a very hard problem that cannot be solved. Hopefully, this issue will not destroy our unity as Indonesia, and we can be tolerable of each cultures in Indonesia.
Can you show me what will you do do when you become minority? and also what are you going to do if you see The conflict between two tribals or more? How to solve that problem?
BalasHapus