Junior High School Counselors’ Perceptions toward Multicultural Competence

Multicultural competence is an important and required competence by counselors whom work in multicultural society background. The reality shows that this competence has been developed because there is no interest of multicultural counseling reviews. This research aims to obtain counselor perspective at Junior High School level in Semarang about multicultural competences. By using questionnaire given to 115 counselors/Guidance and Counseling teachers and descriptive statistics method analysis, it was obtained that most of counselors had positive and meaningful perceptions toward multicultural competences which they assumed important and useful in carrying out their tasks. However, they argued that there was a need of self-development through training. This research implicates the needs of training model to develop Indonesian culture based multicultural competences.