Globalization

Globalization is a special phenomenon in human civilization that move and hold in the global community and is part of the global human processes. The presence of information technology and communication technology to accelerate this process of globalization accelerated. Globalization touches all important aspects of life. Globalization creates new challenges and problems that must be answered, solved in an effort to take advantage of globalization for the benefit of life.
Globalisation itself is a term that came about twenty years ago, and began very popular as a new ideology about five or ten years. As a term, globalization is so readily accepted or known to the public throughout the world. The discourse of globalization as a process characterized by the rapid development of science and technology so that he could change the world fundamentally.
Globalization is often discussed by many people, ranging from economic experts, to the sellers ad. In the words of globalization contains a negation will the loss of one situation where the various movements of goods and services between countries around the world can move freely and openly in the trade. And wiTh the opening of one country against another country, which entered not only goods and services, but also technology, consumption patterns, education, cultural values and others.
The concept of globalization according to Robertson (1992), refers to the narrowing of the world as incentives and increase our awareness of the world, namely the increasing global connectivity and our understanding of the connection. Here the narrowing of the world can be understood in the context of the institution of modernity and the intensification of consciousness of the world can be perceived reflexive better culturally.
Globalization has many interpretations from various viewpoints. Some people interpret globalization as a process of downsizing the world or make the world as like a small village. Others say that globalization is a world community unification efforts of the lifestyle, orientation, and culture.
Another notion of globalization as stated by Barker (2004) is that globalization is a global connection of economic, social, cultural and political is increasingly pointing to different directions all over the world, and enmeshed in our consciousness. Global production of local products and the localization of global products.
GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURE
Echoes of globalization, which had begun since the late 20th century, has made the world community, including the Indonesian nation must be prepared to accept the entry of external influence on all aspects of national life. One aspect that affected the culture. For the Indonesian people is one aspect of culture which forces people to have a diverse wealth of value, including the arts. Folk art, one part of the culture of Indonesia did not escape the influence of globalization.
Globalization in a culture can develop rapidly, it is certainly influenced by the speed and ease in obtaining access to communications and news but this would backfire its own and become a problem of the most crucial or important role in globalization, namely the fact that the development of science Pinkerton controlled by developed countries, not developing countries like Indonesia. Those who own and able to mobilize international communication even developed countries. As a result, developing countries, like Indonesia are always worried about the lag in the flow globalise in various fields such as politics, economics, social, cultural, including our art.
 The discourse of globalization as a process characterized by the rapid development of science and technology so that it could fundamentally change the world science and technology has fundamentally changed the world. Communications and international transport has removed the boundaries of each nation’s culture.
Each nation’s culture tends to lead to globalization and a world that involves human civilization as a whole. ekonomi Simon, a sociologist from Kenya said that globalization in a form that would naturally raise a variety of cultures and cultural values. In this natural process, every nation will try to adjust their culture wiTh new developments so that they can move on and avoid destruction. But, according to Simon Kimono, in this process, Third World countries must strengthen their culture and maintain dimensional structure of values so as not eliminated by a foreign culture. Within this framework, many Third World nations must get useful scientific information and add their experience.
Related to the arts and culture, a Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o named said that the behavior of the Western world, especially America as if she were throwing bombs against the people of the world’s cultures. They tried to destroy the traditions and indigenous languages so that those nations confusion in the search for national cultural identity. The author believes that Kenya is a foreign culture in power in many nations, who formerly imposed by imperialism, is now done in a more spacious with the name of globalization.