A Multicultural Approach in Learning Review of Indonesian Fine Arts

Abstract

Multicultural awareness in Indonesia has been widely discussed since the Dutch colonial era. According to Furnivall, that the plural society in the Dutch East Indies consisted of two unique characteristics, which were horizontally marked by social unions based on differences in ethnicity, religion and tradition. Then vertically, the structure of the society is marked by sharp differences between the upper and lower layers. In this case, there are two key words, namely between the peaks of regional culture and foreign culture, in this case if there is a fading of the sense of unity because they think that one ethnic group feels that its culture is superior to another, there will be inequality which endangers the multicultural nature. Based on this, in order to avoid learning the history of Indonesian fine art that is not based on multiculturalism, in this case it has long been initiated with a more democratic substance as in the Archipelago Art Review course since the 1980s on the grounds that there are many artistic remains outside the islands of Java, Sumatra and Bali which has been built since the end of prehistoric times.