Abstract

The Tengger tribal community has a cultural appeal accompanying the beauty of Bromo Mountain, Indonesia. This native tribe of Bromo Mountain has cultural values as the meaning of life for every member of the community, including the children as junior high school students with a Tengger cultural background. Based on this condition, the development of Tengger culture-based counseling techniques is needed to help the process to fulfill their experiential values of their meaning of life. The technique that considered appropriate with this goal is the self-statement technique. The method used is a research development with two objectives, namely to develop self-statement techniques based on the Tengger culture to fulfill the experimental value of junior high school students, and theoretical testing through the acceptability assessment of the experts. The development results shown by the theoretical acceptability and feasibility of self-statement techniques based on Tengger culture obtained procedurally and contextually. These results refer to the existence of self-guides in the self-statement technique which is a form of reflection, and meaning of all student’s life experiences that originate from the cultural life of the Tengger he/she lived.

Key words: Self-statement technique, Tengger culture, culture-based counseling, experiential value