ABSTRACT
This study describes the multicultural viewpoint through focalisation in Wesel Pos by Ratih Kumala, focusing on Wesel Pos (postal money order) as a non-human narrator that reveals the social life of society. Using Gerard Genette's narratology theory, a descriptive qualitative method is employed to identify forms of focalisation to analyse the novel's portrayal of social life. The results show zero focalisation, highlighting the community environment through the postal money order's perspective, seen via intrinsic (narrative structure) and extrinsic (social life in Jakarta flats) elements. This narrative strategy has changed the narrative mood into a defamiliarised reading experience, paving the way for the sensitisation of our cultural interaction in a global and multicultural context. It also fosters multicultural education by acknowledging otherness, empathising with objects, and offering a different consciousness of urban social life.
