<b>DEVELOPING A MULTICULTURAL-BASED ISLAMIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM </b>

The curriculum is a plan and arrangement related to learning objectives, learning content, learning materials and methods used in learning that are used as a reference in learning activities in order to fulfill educational objectives. The development of the curriculum is very necessary and it should be, especially the Islamic Education curriculum, because Islamic Education has a very large contribution in fostering the character and civilization of the nation. The curriculum has an important role in education and the order of multicultural human life. The existence of curriculum development is a great hope in order to provide solutions to social problems that have occurred lately, such as frequent intolerance, feeling the most right and the others wrong, as well as shallow understanding and strengthening of respect and appreciation of diversity. The existence of social problems is the background of this research. This research aims to find out the PAI curriculum development model in multicultural-based learning. The method used in this research is library research, the data sources come from various scientific journals and books. The result of the research, that the development of multicultural-based PAI curriculum must indeed be done, because Islam itself teaches that we can interact with different people, using various curriculum development.