MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION FOR RELIGIOUS LITERACY TO PREVENT RADICAL MOVEMENTS AMONG MILLENNIALS

This paper explains the urgency of multicultural education in fostering religious literacy among the millennial generations. Lately, the millennial generations have been vulnerable generation trapped with radical movements through the internet and social media networks. The vulnerability of the millennial generations of radical groups is a threat to the future of the nation. This certainly requires vigilance from the government to prevent the proliferation of radical groups that capture the millennial generation as loyal followers. Multicultural education is a projection of an ideal goal to foster a religious literacy among the millennial generations who are trapped with radical ideology. The important, substantial value of multicultural education is to give awareness to the millennial generations to better value diversity as a provision from God. The goal to be achieved from the planting of multicultural education for Millennials is to foster a religious literacy attitude as an attitude to" literate other religions," trying to learn to understand and not easily impose other religious beliefs.