Tengger relational counseling ecology for multireligious harmony among muslim minority junior high school students

Nadhif, Moh, Hakim, Luthfi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4140-9377, Buchori, Moh. Subthi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0988-5867 and Zamroni, Muh. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7945-0016 (2026) Tengger relational counseling ecology for multireligious harmony among muslim minority junior high school students. Edu Consilium : Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Pendidikan Islam. pp. 84-99. ISSN 2503-3417

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Abstract

This study develops a culturally grounded counseling ecology from inclusive Islamic education practices in a Muslim-minority junior high school in the Tengger highlands of East Java, Indonesia. It asks how school routines, religious meanings, local cooperation, and conflict response jointly sustain multireligious harmony. The study used a qualitative case study with a phenomenological orientation. Data were generated in December 2024 through in-depth interviews with the principal, an Islamic education teacher who also served as vice-principal for student affairs, one Muslim student, and one Hindu student, supported by observations and school documents. Data were reanalysed through condensation, pattern comparison, and interpretive coding informed by ecological systems theory, multicultural and social justice counseling, and relational-cultural theory. Five mutually reinforcing layers emerged: safeguarded spiritual space, reciprocal moral translation, cooperative encounter, equitable participation, and restorative deliberation. These layers form the Tengger Relational Counseling Ecology (TRCE), a grounded conceptual framework. The framework explains harmony not as the absence of difference, but as an institutional and relational capacity to protect identity, create repeated interdependence, distribute participation fairly, and repair tension through dialogue. The study contributes a counseling-oriented extension to research on inclusive Islamic education and local wisdom. It offers school counselors a grounded conceptual framework for preventive, developmental, and responsive services in religiously diverse schools. Because the evidence comes from one information-rich case and the framework has not been implementation-tested, TRCE requires multi-site, longitudinal, participatory, and implementation studies.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Keywords:	local wisdom; multireligious harmony; muslim minority; relational counseling; tengger
Subjects:	22 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES > 2204 Religion and Religious Studies > 220405 Religion and Society
Divisions:	Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teaching Training > Department of Islamic Education Management
Depositing User:	Moh Subthi Buchori
Date Deposited:	16 Oct 2026 09:03

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