MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION IN THE DIVERSITY OF NATIONAL CULTURES

This article tries to explain about the importance of tolerance, respecting the diversities among the society by multicultural education. The diversity of national culture will be lost by the time goes by if it is not supported by Indonesian human resource ability in maintaining and conserving the existing culture. Multicultural education is kawah candradimuka in maintaining the plural cultures to avoid the conflict leading to dispute and split of united Nation of Indonesian Republic (NKRI).