Dilema Pluralitas: Hambatan atau Penguatan Demokrasi Bangsa Indonesia?

Abstract

Indonesia is one among nations that most plural and various in the world. At the same time, Indonesia is the greatest archipelago state and a state with most various background. Indonesia is not only plural in etnics, languages and cultures, but also in religiosity. There is period when plurality of the nation become a strenght that deliver and become belief of the nation that they are powerful enough to be self stand – freedom - stand up and seated at the same level among the other nations. But there is a time – just as what is happening to days – spirit of pluralism present up over powered that become anxiety factor that threatening disintegration of Indonesia nation it self or pluralism is considered as obstacle factor of the continuity ot the nation and state. In fact and fortunately, and Indonesia have strong and stable base for the development of religious tolerance and the pluralism, that is Pancasila as the five basic principles of the Republic of Indonesia.