Diversity is a fact inherent in Indonesia, a country that consists of various ethnic groups, religions, cultures, and customs from Sabang to Merauke. But on the other hand, in many cases, this diversity can also threaten the integrity of Indonesia whose motto is “unity in diversity”. A lot of cultural friction to ethnic and religious conflicts has coloring the dynamics of Indonesian diversity from the Orde Lama era to the present. This is clearly a serious threat to Indonesia’s integrity. Since the Reformation era, the Indonesian government has adopted a multicultural approach to solvemulticultural issues. This paper describes the values of multiculturalism that can be used as a spirit in organizing the social system among a plural society. Education, both formal and informal, constitutes a strategic institution to internalize those values of multiculturalism. The research method uses a literature review, with a hermeneutic approach. The findings of this study, the process of internalizing multicultural values through education involves the environment, actors and schools. The success of the internalization process is determined by the mutual support between knowledge, process and acceptance of the values of multiculturalism.

The modern society with density and saturation routine activities required entertainment to refresh their exhaustion. One of the popular entertainments is travelling. The development of tourism is getting better because there are many types of tours that can be selected and enjoyed by everyone. The latest popular tourism is cultural tourism. In West Sumatera of Indonesia, Maninjau Lake is designated as natural and cultural tourism destinations. This article discusses the tourism potentials of Maninjau Lake and its development opportunities as cultural tourism destination. The article was based on the research since 2010. The researcher analyzes the data of in-depth interview, observation, and textual studies. Research findings reveal that there are three tourism potentials at Maninjau Lake such as natural tourism, historical tourism and cultural tourism. These potentials are worth developed in an integrated mode in order to develop Maninjau Lake as cultural tourism destination through participatory approach by involving arts communities in the nagari.

Social development concept has evolved over the last decades, especially post-criticism of physical development oriented. The social development are more social-oriented and prioritizing people through participatory approaches. This asrticle discusses the evaluation of a Community as social development project in the Mbleliling forest area, West Manggarai. The community group founded by multi-stakeholders called Forum Masyarakat Peduli Kawasan Mbeliling (FPKM) is intended to social development around the forest area. After one year, the forum has been evaluated on a large multistakeholder meeting. The evaluation results show that the forum has not been able to answer the multistakeholder expectations against its founders. The problem of funding and coordinating are the main factors causing the inability of the forum to carry out the institution's mandate.Pasca kritik pembangunan berorientasi fisik berkembang beberapa dekade terakhir, berkembang konsep pembangunan sosial yang lebih berorientasi pada aspek sosial dan mengutamakan manusia melalui pendekatan partisipatif. Artikel membahas evaluasi terhadap proyek pembangunan sosial melalui kelompok masyarakat di kawasan hutan Mbeliling, Manggarai Barat. Kelompok masyarakat yang dibentuk oleh multifihak yang bernama Forum Masyarakat Peduli Kawasan Mbeliling (FPKM) tersebut ditujukan untuk pembangunan sosial kemasyarakatan di sekitar kawasan hutan. Setelah satu tahun didirikan, dilakukan evalusi terhadap keberadaan forum. Hasil evalusi menunjukkan bahwa keberadaan kelompok belum mampu menjawab ekspektasi multistakeholder terhadap pendirinya. Katiadaan dana dan sulitnya berkoordinasi menjadi faktor penyebab utama ketidakmampuan forum menjalankan mandat lembaga.

Tourism has contributed significantly to economic growth, and the government is the leading actor in the tourism development process. This article aims to discuss the role of village government in rural tourism development. The research was conducted qualitatively with a case study in Pujonkidul, a tourist village that is growing and developing into a rural tourism destination rapidly in Indonesia. The research data were collected through a series of in-depth interviews with village governments and main actors in the rural tourism development process. Observation and study of document also carried on during the process of collecting data at the village. The result of study show that the local government is able to carry out all government functions in tourism development (coordination, planning, regulation and legislation, entrepreneurship, stimulus and promotion, social tourism role and boarder role of interest protection). This study also found a new function of government in tourism development which is the main finding of this study, namely institutional development. Therefore, the authors argue that the village government can conduct rural tourism development locally and effectively with its functions and authorities. This finding of study can be adopted and developed in the other villages in the process of rural tourism development. The limitation of this study has ignored the discussion of villagers' participation in the rural tourism development process that is the essential form of rural development issues. This limitation is an important topic for future research.