Based on the last survey result about citizen amount and its ethics that has been done by BPS (Badan Pusat Statistik), Indonesia has 230 billion people with 1128 ethnics. It proved that Indonesia has the great multiculturalism. Many factors in various aspects caused that phenomenon such as social, economy and geography. One of those factors is geography for example because Indonesian country is spread and separated by ocean. So the people live in the separated island. And it caused them to make their culture, language, identity. Then it was born some ethnics in Indonesia such as Jawa, Sunda, Batak and etc. And they have each typical characteristic as their identity. There are some similar characteristics and also the different one. The diversity seems beautiful but it looks bad when the people debate their different assumption. In 2000, Tionghoa ethnic have just got the freedom to do their spirituality. It is decided by gusdur through Keppres RI No. 6/2000. So that’s why he was called as Bapak Pluralisme.

I was born as Javanese people. Then it formed my personal identity. I live in Jawa. My family was also Javanese people. They always teach me about the culture value. But when I moved to Jakarta which contains so many different ethnics, I feel like I do little movement on my identity towards various ethnics. It means the culture is not the permanent things that can be changed in our selves. However, we can say that it is our habit. In other case, when I asked my friend about their identity, they don’t know their culture yet whether Javanese or Bataknese because she was born in two ethnics of their parents that are Javanese and Bataknese. So she acts their identity as Bataknese which looks rude when she was on Batak. In vise versa, she looks so friendly and soft when she was on Jawa. Then we can say that identity is not born and become the unity of our life. However it is formed by the culture around us.

Multiculturalism was complex problem that causing some conflict in this world. It was not just diversity of culture but also religion, language and etc. it has no solution all this time even forever because they will hold their culture value since they was born till the end of life. The one solution is tolerancing each other. Despite of Indonesia is the Islamic country at most but it still tolerance to other five religions such as Christian, Buddha, Hindu, and catholic, and Tionghoa (conghucu). Based on UUD pasal 29 ayat 1 dan 2, Indonesia is the country relies on one god and guarantee people’s independence to choose their religion and doing spirituality based on their belief.

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