Pluralism is a framework in which there is interaction of several groups that show a sense of mutual respect and tolerance of each other. They live together and in the absence of conflicts of assimilation. In other words, in the social interaction everybody needs build up a sense of pluralistic to make a community lives in peaceful. As a societies modernize, pluralistic society attract people from countries where there may be economic hardship, political unrest or religious persecution.

Are Pluralistic and Multicultural Similar?

The main reference for the establishment of a multicultural society Indonesia is multiculturalism, an ideology that recognizes and magnify differences in equality both individually and culturally. The term multiculturalism actually recently become the object of discussion in many circles, but quickly evolved as an object is an interesting debate to be studied and discussed. At first this is also known as pluralism referring to ethnic and cultural diversity in a region or country.
Sometimes evidence is the emergence of pluralistic and multicultural ethnic divisions, cultural and ethnic groups in the nation of our own bodies. As the conflict in the East-East, in Aceh, Ambon, and others. The Indonesian people who we all know has a variety of cultures brought about by many tribes, customs scattered throughout the archipelago. Indonesia therefore formulate the concept of multiculturalism with the motto "Unity in Diversity". A concept that implies exceptional. Both meanings are explicitly or implicitly. Then also the emergence of the Youth Pledge in 1928, which is an awareness of the need to realize the difference at the same time also meant to foster unity.

What the Advantageous and Disadvantageous of Equality?

The advantageous, there is no one group which officially considered more influential than another. For example put a legal quote on how many Japanese Indonesians may run for public office or how many Chinese Indonesians can live on certain street. But however, the disadvantageous is powerful informal mechanisms, such as prejudice and discrimination, work to keep many groups out of the political process or out of certain neighborhoods.