DEFINING CULTURE COMMUNITY AS A SYMBOL OF INDONESIA

Indonesian culture that has existed since ancient times both bokep before and after the independence of Indonesia Indonesia's independence. Because the culture it self grew and developed along with the advancement of community life in their respective regions. With the progress of time is not directly change the lifestyle and behavior of each society, so was also with the Indonesian community in the presence of these changes indirectly affect the cultures that already exist in Indonesia.

Information Technology are now very sophisticated in the presence of some media, that makes people can easily access any resources from other countries in this world. With the existence of such media have obtained the clappers are aware of information that we want to know but there is little adverse effect for newly developing countries that is information that was obtained was at times even incompatible with indigenous cultures in developing countries. Information that is particularly in this culture has been greatly affects people's lives developing countries because most indigenous cultures still in developing countries can not compete with foreign cultures, so sooner or later the native culture of many developing countries, the longer it will be gone replaced with a foreign culture.

One of the developing countries in this world is Indonesia, which has a lot of people and have many different cultures in every region. In limiting the influence of foreign cultures, Indonesia has a strong foundation of Pancasila which is a manifestation of creativity, work and wills of the Indonesian nation as well as an overall effort to develop Indonesia's human dignity as a nation that wants the respect by other nations.

Culture comes from the Sanskrit language, from words buddayah the plural of the word buddhi, which means mind or intellect. So culture is the things that concerned with the mind or intellect. Then it can be concluded that culture is a form of idea or ideas that then that is applied to an act and produce something that can be felt by the hearts and minds by humans obtained by study after it became a guide in public life.

Defining culture as a symbol of Indonesian society is the culture that created the original from the Indonesian human creations obtained through the process in later life that are applicable in every day behavior. Culture is very important as a symbol of a society, because that culture is considered as a reflection of the life of a society in certain areas.

The existence of culture as a symbol of identity can also become a nation of civilized, moral as well as having a high insights as to be respected by other nations. But when a nation has lost its original culture and has been eroded by foreign cultures and the people shall wait for moments that resulted in the destruction of nations did not have value and dignity in the eyes of other nations.

It is therefore important to define culture as a symbol of the community because with the culture of other nations to respect this nation. Nations that have a high insight are a nation that can keep and cherish their own culture.