<![CDATA[Indonesia's ethnic, religious, linguistic, regional, and social diversity requires counseling practices that are not only technically sound but also culturally responsive, ethically reflective, and socially contextual. This article synthesizes Indonesian counseling literature and international peer-reviewed studies, including Scopus-indexed work, on multicultural counseling competence, cultural humility, multicultural orientation, culturally adapted intervention, and social justice counseling. An integrative literature review was conducted by prioritizing sources that discuss counselor self-awareness, cultural assessment, cultural broaching, intervention adaptation, power relations, and school counseling practice. The synthesis indicates that culturally responsive counseling is supported by five connected capacities: cultural self-awareness, contextual knowledge of the client, cultural humility, explicit cultural dialogue, and collaborative-ethical intervention planning. In Indonesia, family solidarity, gotong royong, religious meaning, respect for authority, and communal norms can become counseling resources when explored critically with clients rather than treated as fixed stereotypes. This article proposes a five-stage framework consisting of cultural assessment, counselor reflexivity, cultural broaching, collaborative intervention adaptation, and ethical outcome evaluation. The framework helps counselors translate multicultural competence into observable practice in school and community counseling settings.]]>
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