REFLEKSI SELINTAS TENTANG PRIMORDIALISME, PLURALISME, DAN DEMOKRASI
ABSTRACT: This writing is a
reflective analytical description on the relations between primordialism,
pluralism and democracy. By using historical analysis, the writer tries to
unfold how the words “democracy” arose as an idea that led to a social
movement. Democracy was used to largely interpreted as “modernism” or
“developed”, which later debates also included the desire for equality of
rights and status. This later idea has brought the first social movement
against colonialism. By the time Indonesia gained its independence, democracy
was thought to be – and can only be achieved – if the people can free
themselves from primordial bounds. the imagined democratic community is a
community with a social structure and system that is able to bloom a “Cultural
Bazaar” condition, a “market” that spares room for pluralism. Then, under this
conditions, new values can be nurtured as a base to re-create the new society.
Penulis: Taufik Abdullah
Kode Jurnal: jpantropologidd100019
