Pesantren and Contemporary Multicultural Islamic Education: Empowering plurality toward realizing social harmony and peace in Indonesia

After the falling of New Order regime, social conflicts, terrorisms and Islamic radicalism, like in the spring emerged in Indonesia until now. Why not, within a period of not more than a decade, successive bombing attacks rocked this pluralist republic. A course such as the I-II bombing of Bali, the bombing of Australian embassy, the I-II bombing of JW Marriot Hotel, the bombing of Hotel Ritz Carlton, "book bomb" was addressed to a number of figures, "a Friday bomb" in the mosque of Police Headquarters Cirebon, and suicide bombing at Gereja Bethel Injil Sepenuh (GBIS) Kepunton Solo and the last suicide bombing at Mapolres Solo, Central Java. Islamic radicalism is also spreaded everywhere such as attacking on Ahmadiyah congregation in in Pandeglang, Banten and Pesantren suspected as Shiite in Pasuruan and Sampang Madura, East Java. The one solution is through the development of multicultural Islamic educational pattern to produce tolerant, moderate and inclusive the next muslim generations. The research was conducted at Pesantren Ngalah, Pasuruan, East Java, known as multicultural-humanistic pesantren who has two interested sides; (a). Great contribution in multiculturalism issues and (b). National and international cooperation networks in empowering social life and peace where this research is focused on the development of multicultural Islamic education aspects based on five main focuses, namely: (a). The development policy, (b). The material development, (c). The approach of material development, (d). The stages of material development, (e). And the pattern of development model of multicultural Islamic education material for social harmony and peace. Keywords—pesantren; multicultural islamic education; social