Strengthening Of Education Multicultural Era MEA

Abstract

This study aimed to describe the strengthening of multicultural education in the era of the
MEA, This research is a descriptive qualitative research in the form of library research,
data collection method of documentation which examines in depth the phenomena, library
books, research journals, and scientific articles related to the variables studied. Data
analysis techniques used interactive analysis technique consists of three steps: data
reduction, data display and data verification. The results showed that efforts to strengthen
the multicultural education in the era of MEA can be done by keeping the essence of
multicultural education harmonization with the essence of the MEA. That means that the
multicultural education in the era of the MEA should be able to build the talents of the
learners in order to have a wide range of knowledge, experience and skills to be able to
compete in the era of the MEA while maintaining a synergism in the diversity of its ethnic
diversity, language, culture, religion and so forth. Multicultural education in the era of the
MEA should also be able to provide a wide range of competencies that are multi-complex
to the learners so that learners are able to take advantage of the opportunities that exist in
the era of MEA. The conclusion is that the era of multicultural education in the MEA
should be given reinforcement by providing a stock of knowledge, experience, and skills
to learners to continue to promote the harmony of their good diversity in ethnicity,
language, culture or religion.
Keywords: Multicultural Education and MEA Era