National culture based on Pancasila is the embodiment of creativity, work and intention of the Indonesian nation and an overall effort to develop Indonesia's human dignity as a nation, as well as directed to provide insight and meaning to national development in all areas of national life. Thus the National Development is a development that berbudaya.Departemen Education and Culture, Form, Meaning and Peak-Peak Culture for the People First Lama and supporters, Semarang: P & K, 199 "
National culture in view Ki Hajar Dewantara was "the tops of the regional culture". Quote this statement refers to the understanding of unity increasingly strengthened, so that more and more perceived than ketunggalikaan diversity. His form in the form of a unitary state, national economy, national laws, as well as the national language. The definition given by Koentjaraningrat can be seen from his statement: "distinctive and quality of any ethnic origin, the origin could identify themselves and give rise to a sense of pride, that national culture". This statement refers to the tops of the regional culture and the culture of the nation that can cause a sense of pride for Indonesia if it appears to represent a common identity. Nunus Supriya, "Local Culture and National Culture"
Statements listed in the guidelines is the elaboration of the 1945 Article 32. Nowadays Indonesian cultural figures questioning the existence of regional culture and national culture related to the elimination of the three sentence explanation in chapter 32, and the emergence of a new paragraph. They questioned the possibility of a split by the culture of the area if a limit on the national culture is not explained clearly.
Prior to the amendment, the 1945 uses two terms to identify regional culture and national culture. The culture of the nation, is the old cultures and as a genuine contained peaks in areas throughout Indonesia, while the national culture itself is understood as a cultural nation that is already in a position that has meaning for the people of Indonesia. In the national culture there is a unifying element of Banga Indonesia that has realized and experienced the spread nationally. In it there are elements of the national culture and foreign cultural elements, as well as new creations element or the results of national invention.
