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This paper purposes to explore an alternative citizen interaction form in public place to maintain diversity of society in Pramekers as a social group. These people, known as the Pramekers group, regularly commute in the morning and go back in the afternoon and thus incidentally formed a community of daily travellers. As Harold H. Saunders, the Director of International Affairs of the Kettering Foundation, Washington, DC, argues, ?effective dialogue begins at the personal level, and globalization has made that not only necessary but possible. By dialogue we do not mean sporadic, one time exchanges, but rather sustained dialogue that builds a ‘cumulative’ agenda, develop a ‘common body of knowledge,’ and teaches participants that ‘relationships can be transformed’ (Saunders; 2011). I applied participant observation and interview as methods to capture that interaction. This study found that dialogue in Pramekers’ daily interaction become not only a way to maintain diversity but also as a medium to accommodate and advocate society’s aspirations toward the public policy especially in terms of policy about train to realize toleration among citizens. Dialog in diversity frame, actually can be created in the complexity of public place and understanding of diversity can also be done with gesture and attitude in interaction when treating people of different backgrounds.
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