Ketuhanan yang Berkebudayaan: Memahami Pancasila sebagai Model Interkulturalitas di Indonesia

Abstract

Interculturality is the awareness of cultural diversity in a communication in which all parties intend to communicate effectively with one another. This study considers the potential of the first sila of Pancasila as a healthy interculturality by virtue of its open concept of divinity, namely “cultured divinity”. The finding is that the first sila of Pancasila can be defi ned as an open and active intercultural hermeneutics. The fluidic, accommodative, and open nature of the first sila of Pancasila, makin it possible to values contributed from anywhere, is the advantage of Pancasila that makes it acceptable to anyone living in Indonesia. In the localcontext of Tembilahan, this study captures the interculturality, and retrospectively confirms that the intercultural meeting point constructed in Pancasila has been estabished.

Keywords

• Pancasila
• interculturality
• cultured divinity
• overlapping identity
• hermeneutics