The background of this paper is a modern life that is objective and positive, and tends to position human beings as an object. As a result, they are restricted and manipulated as a machine that erodes humanity values. A rapid-developed industrialization that tends to be capitalistic causes responses or even resistance from people who totally esteem the humanity values. These responses are the idea of post-modernism refers to a combination of various thoughts, concerning re-absorption of the humanity values and multi-cultures. These responses increase more and more accordance with local and global issues appear that become a topic discussed by many parties today such as academicians, cultural observers, sociologists, societies, and government (as legalization of authority), which implicate in re-conceptualization and re-implementation of art education. In fact, the fundamental problem of these contemporary phenomena (local-global) that correlates and differentiates each other is "how to position between two needs that cannot be separated both of them: needs and threats". On the one hand, needs keep up with the development of global era. On the other, they also respond to threats in the case of extinction of locality existence (as identity). The author assumed, these local-global issues are between two ideological needs; that are called "an ideological challenge". Relating to this challenge, some strategies are recommended in implementing art education including (1) creativity enhancement and (2) cultural awareness by adapting and adopting humanism and multiculturalism ideas.
Key words: art education, global, local, ideology