Abstract
AbstractThis study was aimed at describing multicultural values, ways of expressing multicultural values, and the dynamics of multicultural values in Indonesian novels ofthe 2000s. The study purposively selected a sample of six novels that intensely carried thetheme of multiculturalism. These were Laskar Pelangi, Larung, Jendela-jendela, Ayat-ayat Cinta,Jepun Negerinya Hiroko, and Partikel. The study used the descriptive qualitative method.The study obtained the following findings. First, there were four main multiculturalvalues: (a) apreciasion of cultural pluralism, (b) valuing of the principles of humanismand fundamental human rights (FHR), (c) responsibility of the international society, (d)responsibility of the planet earth. Second, multicultural values are expressed throughnarrative elements and become an integral part of the entire story. Third, multicultural values move in the dynamics of locality to nationality and nationality to globality. Indonesian novels of the 2000s express Indonesian people in the contexts of world nationand citizens who are multicultural, having appreciative minds towards cultural pluralism,upholding humanism and FHR, taking responsibilities of sustaining the entirety of theworld and planet earth. Keywords: multicultural, Indonesian novel, nasionality, globality, plurality
Highlights
Indonesia is an archipelago built of diverse ethnics and cultures
This study used the descriptive, qualitative, and interpretive design. It was aimed at describing and understanding the multicultural values that are contained in the Indonesian novels of the 2000s: how these values are expressed in the novels and what are the dynamics of the values in the locality, translocality, and globality dialogues
In the Indonesian novels of the 2000s, the multicultural values that are studied are integral parts of the stories expressed within narrative elements as follows. (Table 2)
Summary
The nation slogan, diversity in unity, different but remaining one, shows the existence of the nation and culture, which is: varied but one. One consequence of this condition brings up the problem of multiculturalism, a social factuality that must be faced (Tilaar, 2009:202). In the movement for independence since the national arising era, the Indonesian nation has made efforts to build a society and nation that are founded on cultural equalities. The drafting of the Preamble of the 1945 Constitution shows the spirit of multiculturalism of the leaders of the Indonesian nation at that time (Tilaar, 2009:205)
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