THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION IN PUTERA HARAPAN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL PURWOKERTO

Indonesia is a country that has diversity of cultures, ethics, traditions and languages. Indonesia recognizesdiversity ofethnics, cultures and other differences by slogan of Bhineka Tunggal Ika. The diversity of ethnics, cultures, languages, customs and habits become stimulant for breaking of nation if the nation is not respect, honor, acknowledge, and tolerance about diversity. Effectively, the solution of diversity conflict is through multicultural education. The focus of Multicultural Education should be introduced in school, because school is integration place of education. Like PuteraHarapan Junior High School Purwokerto. The problems of this research i.e. Is PuteraHarapan Junior High School Purwokerto based on multicultural education and howis multicultural education implemented in PuteraHarapan Junior High School Purwokerto? The subject of this research is 6 respondents, i.e. headmaster, curriculum section, student section, teacher, students, administration section.This type of research is field research which has the descriptive qualitative method with the location is PuteraHarapan Junior High School Purwokerto. The data collecting method which is usedin this study are observation, interview, and documentation. Then, the analysis of data which is used in this study are the data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. From the result of research, the writer found PuteraHarapan Junior High Purwokerto School based on multicultural education. This school is one of school that invests educational system based on multicultural education in Banyumas. The implementation of multicultural education in PuteraHarapan Junior High School is through 4 stages, i.e. curricula, intra-curricular activity, extracurricular activity and Islamic education learning. In addition, PuteraHarapan Junior High School is school based on multicultural education. This school develops multi languages as introductory language in learning. Multicultural education in PuteraHarapan Junior High School is not stand alone in subject, but integrated in all of subject with inserting multicultural values