Resilience of Moral Relativism in The Face of Opposition to The Establishment of a Christian Religious Education Units

Abstract

The claim of opposition by a certain community group towards the plan to establish a Christian religious education unit is interesting from an ethical theory perspective. Individual or group sentiment towards this issue seems to lead to the view that there are no objective-universal moral facts, but this moral fact shows disharmony towards the values of state conventions and ethics. The aim of this research is to conduct a critical study of the concept of metaethics and review constitutional moral conventions and normative state ethics in the 1945 Constitution of the republic of Indonesia. This research is normative in nature with secondary data sources in the form of conceptual, historical and statutory approaches, as well as articles relevant to ethical theory. This data was collected through library research (Library Research). The results of this research indicate that the view of skepticism encompasses moral relativism. Moral relativism is a certain group's moral claim to truth. the claim of rejection of the plan to establish a Christian education unit, seems to require a great effort to maintain the building of the argument because it is difficult to find space for existence in the state ethics which are based on Pancasila, the Republic of Indonesia, the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, and Bhineka Tunggal Ika.