Culture-Centered Counseling to Growing Culture Empathy in The mids of The Interethnic Conflicts in Indonesia

Abstract

This research was carried out in Indonesia , a country which can be said to have a wide variety of cultures where it is very possible for conflicts and friction between ethnic groups to emerge. The reason for the researchers who formed the background for this research in Indonesia, is because in reality Indonesia faces a fairly serious problem in terms of relations with ethnicity or groups and becomes a problem that has not yet been resolved . The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of culture-centered counseling to foster cultural empathy in the midst of inter-ethnic conflict in Indonesia , the type of research this is a research experiment with the design of the study one shot-case stud. The subjects of this study were nine people who consisted of various cultural backgrounds . Data were collected using a cultural empathy questionnaire and tested using a one-sample test . Based on the results of the one-sample test the subjects of a counseling model centered on culture to foster cultural empathy in the midst of ethnic conflict in Indonesia are (t_count 66,947> t _table 2,306 ). So this finding confirms that counseling centered on culture is effective in fostering cultural empathy amid conflicts between ethnic groups.