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Having varied ethnics, cultures, religions, or faiths, Indonesia is considered amulticultural nation in today’s world. This equity can be dangerous; but also can beadvantageous if myriad interests of citizens are able to be nurtured through education,including religious schools. The research was conducted to explore multiculturalpractices in the State-owned Islamic High School (MAN) 3 and the Catholic HighSchool (SMA) Stella Duce 2 in Yogyakarta Indonesia. Data was gathered via qualitativemethod by means of comparative study, aiming at seeking similarities and differenceson promoting multicultural education values. Findings show similarities of teachers’attitudes and characteristics as facilitator, accommodator, or assimilator whereas thedifferences include their leadership role in intrareligious dialog at MAN 3 and dialogleaders at SMA Stella Duce 2. Other issues include diverse understandings of religionand its perceived violence. The research formulates two categories of teacher as beingmulticultural-intrareligious pluralist and multicultural-intrareligious humanist. It alsodiscusses implications on social change as a result of cultural interchange at thoseschools.
Miftahur Rohman (2017) studied this question.