INSTALLATION OF RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE VALUES IN EARLY CHILDREN IN CERIA KINDERGARTEN MULTICULTURAL BASED

Abstract

Tolerance is a foundation for a positive attitude to accept the plurality of all things in social and cultural life, including religion. Historically, the process of the emergence of religious tolerance in Indonesia can be observed since the development of Hinduism and Buddhism. The introduction of religious teachings from an early age is very influential in shaping the awareness and experience of religion in children. The existence of religious awareness and experience in children will form positive manners, feelings, tastes and personalities which are very important for the child's further life both personally and interpersonally. The goal to be achieved in this study is to find out the importance of instilling the values of religious tolerance in early childhood, the application and results of instilling the values of religious tolerance in early childhood. The results obtained are that tolerance activities have an influence on sports activities, and can stimulate the spiritual development of early childhood, the application of instilling religious tolerance values contained in tolerance values is more visible in daily habits, most children understand that worshiping various religions is not the same, children can appreciate when friends of different religions worship, children understand how to tolerate and children's social development increases. The emergence of tolerance and mutual respect for different religions.