1 BALI IN A MULTICULTURALAND GLOBALISED WORLD: Religion, Tolerance, Solidarity and Harmonious Life I Ketut Ardhana Widya Kerthi Foundation Hindu University of Indonesia, Denpasar-Bali
[email protected] Abstract Everyone realizes that globalization that has come from the Western to the Eastern world has played a major role in whole parts of the world. One the one hand, this development gives a positive aspect, but on the other hand, it gives a negative impact to the development of a society. This fast development has changed the face of world. Due to the negative impacts, it is often argued, that the globalization has caused a failure to the local development in terms of the prosperious and the happiness of the people. It is not surprising, if there are some important questions emerge regarding on how the local people who lived in a harmonious life in the context of multicultural society. Accordingly, they have to face some crucial issues that they feel will threat their life not only in the short term, but also in the long term. Therefore, they have tried to solve their problems by looking at certain local values that they had already had, based on local tradition and already rooted in a long time of its history. By looking at this local perspective, they convince that they will be able to secure their life from the outside influences. Regarding on this issue, there are certain questions as follows.Firstly, how can we understand the existence of local culture in the context of national and universal culture? Secondly, what kinds of issues that have to be faced in the context of globalization, and thirdly what kinds of solutions that can be given in order to be answered the main issues in the context of globalization, not only in the present time, but also in the future in the context of sustainable community development? These are certain questionsthat will be addressed in this paper.