Proceedings of the 1st International Seminar on Cultural Sciences, ISCS 2020, 4 November 2020, Malang, Indonesia

Research Article

From Pluralism to Multiculturalism: Challenges in Indonesia

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.4-11-2020.2308923,
        author={Heddy Shri Ahimsa Putra},
        title={From Pluralism to Multiculturalism: Challenges in Indonesia},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st International Seminar on Cultural Sciences, ISCS 2020, 4 November 2020, Malang, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ISCS},
        year={2021},
        month={6},
        keywords={multiculturalism pluralism challenges strategies},
        doi={10.4108/eai.4-11-2020.2308923}
    }
    
  • Heddy Shri Ahimsa Putra
    Year: 2021
    From Pluralism to Multiculturalism: Challenges in Indonesia
    ISCS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.4-11-2020.2308923
Heddy Shri Ahimsa Putra1,*
  • 1: Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
*Contact email: heddy.shri@ugm.ac.id

Abstract

It is argued in this paper that Indonesian society is no longer a plural society in the sense that Furnivall defined in 1950s. Using Blum’s definition of multiculturalism, the author says that Indonesian society is not yet a multicultural society either, although its national motto is “unity in diversity”. Some facts are given for this. It is proposed that to improve the process of creating a multicultural society, certain strategies need to be employed in some fields, such as: education; promotion; and social media.