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Bhinneka Tunggal Ika As a National Consensus and a Universal Tool of the Indonesian Nation ISSN p-2540-8763 / e-2615-4374 Vol. 6 Number 2, June 2021 Bhinneka Tunggal Ika As A National Consensus And A Universal Tool Of The Indonesian Nation Nurhayati 1), Rini Setiyowati 2), Yunisca Nurmalisa 3) Program Studi Pendidikan Pancasila dan Kewarganegaraan Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Lampung University, Indonesia 1, 3) Program Studi Pendidikan Pancasila dan Kewarganegaraan Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Sriwijaya University, Indonesia 2) [email protected] 1), [email protected] 2), [email protected] 3) Abstract. This article ims to reveal a meaning contained in Bhinneka Tunggal Ika which is used as a tool to unite the nation. In living together with diversity can be a blessing or a source of disaster depending on how we view and manage it. The existence of diversity grows and develops over time. It cannot be denied thet we live among many differences, therefore the Indonesian nation makes unity in diversity a motto that is upheld as a tool that uites all differences that exist within the nation, namely race, ethnicity, religion, and so on. Keywords: Bhinneka Tunggal Ika; National Consensus; United Nations Abstrak. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap sebuah makna yang terkandung dalam Bhinneka Tunggal Ika sebagai alat pemersatu bangsa. Dalam kehidupan bersama kebhinekaan bisa menjadi berkah atau sebaliknya sumber bencana tergantung cara kita memandang dan mengelolanya. Eksistensi kebhinnekaan tumbuh dan berkembang seiring berjalan nya waktu. Tidak bisa disangkal bahwa kita hidup diantara banyaknya perbedaan oleh karena itu bangsa Indonesia menjadikan Bhinneka Tunggal Ika menjadi suatu semboyan yang dijunjung sebagai alat yang menyatukan segala perbedaan yang ada dalam diri bangsa yaitu ras, suku, agama, dan lain sebagainya. Kata Kunci: Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, Konsensus Nasional, Pemersatu Bangsa 254 ISSN p-2540-8763 / e-2615-4374 Vol. 6 Number 2, June 2021 INTRODUCTION is different from another, for example that the Communities that each have a bond of culture of the Javanese will certainly be dependence is only possible if among them different from the culture of the people of there is a consensus (consensus and on the Kalimantan, Sumatra or Papua though. This basis of the consensus will facilitate the alone can be an example that the mindset of community to do a cooperation to achieve people must be different which shows the common goals. Society has a perspective will be different too. So without tendency towards consensus, namely "to have the will to accept and respect diversity, it is certain basic values that nearly everyone in the difficult to realize national unity and integrity society agrees upon" (Abdulkarim, A., (Abdulkarim, A., Ratmaningsih, N., Komalasari, K., Saripudi. D., Rtmaningsih, N., 2018). What the founders of this nation did in 2020). For example, a society that upholds the building awareness of nationalism or freedom of every individual in a society or nationalism is an effort to maintain loyalty and democracy. Such communities will tend to devotion to the nation. consensus on the rules to reach mutual There are many differences around the agreement. The form and content of these rules Indonesian people, not a few that make a and other social rules reflect the demands or trigger for problems that have occurred, ideals of community life in a country. including an inter-ethnic case in South In the context of understanding a Lampung involving 2 parties, namely the pluralistic society, in addition to the culture of Lampung ethnic group and the Balinese ethnic ethnic groups, Indonesian society also consists group. However, this did not make these two of various regional cultures which are a camps soluble in prolonged emotions and meeting of various cultures of ethnic groups in problems, they ended peacefully in the name the area. Meetings with foreign cultures also of brotherhood of the country. Living in affect the process of cultural mixing in harmony has been seen again until now and Indonesia. Indonesian society, which is a there is no longer a circle of enmity. pluralistic society, has unique characteristics History proves that culture in Indonesia that we can know from the culture of gotong is able to survive side by side, complement royong, tepaselira, the culture of respect for each other, and run in parallel. Relationships elders such as kissing hands, and making between cultures that are closely intertwined friends with people of different faiths. are framed in a Bhinneka Tunggal Ika which is Indonesia's diversity is not just a myth, not only used as a slogan in pronunciation or but a reality that lies before our eyes. We must even we only see in the context of the meaning realize that the mindset and culture of one tribe of ethnic diversity alone, but all things that 255 ISSN p-2540-8763 / e-2615-4374 Vol. 6 Number 2, June 2021 make differences in society can be realized and influence under Prime Minister Gajah Mada. accommodated in Bhinneka Tunggal Ika. Ika The formulation of Bhinneka Tungga Ika by (Aghabian, 2015). Mpu Tantular began with an effort to overcome differences in religion and belief at RESEARCH METHODS the beginning of the establishment of The method used literature review, the Majapahit Kingdom with full tolerance where researchers collect data from relevant (Kurniawan, J. A., dan Candidate, 2018). The sources; journals and books. This technique unity and balance of the two religions at that aims at revealing various theories that are time was a concept that touched the relevant to the problems being importance of harmony and the relationship faced/researched as reference materials in the between the two religions. discussion of research results. At the beginning of this third millennium heard the phrase Unity as pu i si DISCUSSION sung expression of religiosity and The History and Meaning of Bhinneka philosophical insights that deliver time Tunggal Ika honored ethos of intercultural and inter- The term Bhinneka Tunggal Ika was religious. However, it is different from first known in the Majapahit era, the leadership unversilism and pluralism. Bhinneka Tunggal of Wisnuwardhana was written by Mpu Ika reflects both and a worldview Tantular in the book Sutasoma in the XIV where dharma (truth) is one aspect multiplied (fourteen) century in the Majapahit (Butler, 2016). Then it teaches religious Kingdom. In the book MPU Tantular tolerance which puts Hinduism and A gamma write "Rwaneka dhatu winuwus Buddhist B Udha live peacefully in accordance Wiswa, Bhinekha rakwa ring apan hit formulated by the MPU Tantular. parwanosen, Mangka ng Jinatwa among In connection with this, the founders of Siwatatwa single, Bhinneka Tunggal Ika tan the Indonesian nation were inspired to make hanaharmamangrwa" (that A gamma Buddha the motto of the Indonesian nation. The and Shiva (Hindu) are different substances, stipulation of Bhinneka Tunggal Ika as the but the true values of Buddha and Siwa is motto of the Republic of Indonesia through a singular. Torn apart, but one nevertheless, that long process to be chosen. The motto is not dharma ambiguous. the spirit of Bhinneka Tunggal Ika began to become a tolerance be r religion in those days was very limited discussion at BPUPKI sessions important as an element or foundation and between Muh. Yamin, Ir. Soekarno, I Gusti security features to create Majapahit, Bagus Sugriwa about two and a half months especially when it reaches a height power and 256 ISSN p-2540-8763 / e-2615-4374 Vol. 6 Number 2, June 2021 before the proclamation. Then the motto bond that embraces diversity in a nation is an Bhinneka Tunggal Ika was proposed independent and sovereign country, by Muhammad Yamin to Ir. Soekarno to be Indonesia (Secretariat General of MPR RI, used as the motto of the state. The motto is 2012:176). It is based on the basic framework depicted under the coat of arms of the of Indonesian life that is based on the Indonesian state known as Garuda ideologue i Pancasila (five principles) states Pancasila. The coat of arms of Indonesia that the ethnic diversity of religion, race is an complete with the motto "Bhinneka Tunggal asset or wealth of the nation. Through the Ika" has been stipulated in Government concept of Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, the concept Regulation no. 66 T ear 1951 about Emblem of togetherness and ethnic unity will restore State an official motto of the Republic of the spirit of the Indonesian nation to uphold Indonesia. Then in 2012, the People's unity in diversity. Consultative Assembly (MPR) stated clearly According to Lalonde (Hardono, 1994) that Bhinneka Tunggal Ika was one of the four Bhinneka Tunggal Ika is a concept that is more National Pillars (National Pillars). than tolerance of religious differences but also The term "Bhinneka Tunggal Ika" extends to tolerance of physical, cultural, which originally indicated the spirit of linguistic, socio-political, ideological and religious tolerance, was later adopted as the psychological differences. That is, it motto of the Indonesian nation. As the nation's represents a movement towards more complex motto, the context of the problem is not only unity, based on understanding that differences about religious tolerance but is much broader enrich human interactions. (Baihaki, as is commonly referred to as ethnicity, 2017) , Bhinneka Tunggal Ika as the motto of religion, race, and inter-group the Indonesian state is intended to unite all the (SARA). Bhinneka Tunggal Ika as a symbol of differences that exist in society, such as uniting the state is an effort to unite a pluralistic the vision and mission of becoming a family society with diverse cultural that protects, nurtures, respects, respects one backgrounds. Diversity and uniqueness as a another. Because basically all people in reality of society and the environment as well Indonesia have the same goal. as aspirations to build the nation are (Kurniawan, J.
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