THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RUMAH BUDAYA INDONESIA (RBI) IN SINGAPORE

*130 Indonesia has much kind of diversities. As an archipelago country,
there are a lot of cultures, languages, ethnic groups, beliefs, and so on.
Although many different cultures and so on, Indonesia still become
united, like one of the slogan which reads, “Bhineka Tunggal Ika”. The
slogan itself told the people, although there’s a lot of a differences
between the societies, they are still united. The cultural diversities itself
was created because there are many kind of tribes and also ethnic groups
in Indonesia. Not only because of the tribes and the ethnic groups, but
also because of the geographic condition in Indonesia which have many
islands that are separated. One of the heritages from Indonesia is the
culture, such as traditional dances. There’s lot of traditional dances and
it depends on which part on Indonesia is that or where is it came from.
As the nation’s cultural heritage, traditional dances could become the
identity of Indonesia and spread it through the international world.
Traditional dances show the beautiful moves and also there’s a story
behind the dances. The art of the dance itself could be the effective way
to attract the international societies and reflect the peculiarities of
Indonesia as a great nation uphold the diversity and also shows the value
of the nation through friendship. This paper will analyze a program that
is called as Rumah Budaya Indonesia in Singapore. It involves cultural
diplomacy concept and also decision making-process as the instruments
that is used to know the reasons why Indonesia built Rumah Budaya
Indonesia in Singapore. First, this paper will explain the meaning of
Indonesian cultures and why Indonesia needs to protect it.