Multicultural-based Education to Improve Harmony in Religious Tourism Village Communities

Abstract

This study aims to determine multicultural-based education to improve community harmony in religious tourism villages. The method in this study is qualitative. Data collection techniques include observation, interviews, and documentation. Data triangulation techniques are used to test the validity of this data. Multicultural-based education in religious tourism villages is becoming increasingly important. With multicultural-based education, the village becomes a place to erase prejudice while also training and developing the character of the community and visitors to be democratic, humanist, and pluralist. Rama Agung Village has an interesting concept of religious harmony and is one of the educational tourism villages in the city of Bengkulu. There are five different places of worship in one village, one for Islam, one for Christianity, one for Catholicism, one for Hinduism, and one for Buddhism. The existence of this religious tourism village can maintain and improve the attitude of harmony among religious people, so that this religious tourism village can become a pilot village to preserve the harmony of religious people in the area around us. In developing its tourist interest, which is the main focus of the Rama Agung Village Government, three important components must be considered in tourism development: extraction, accessibility, and amenity. Furthermore, the three components must be sustainable so that tourist attractions can have high competitiveness.