65 saga Vol. 2 No. 1, 2020 P-ISSN: 2715-7512; E-ISSN: 2716-0246 doi: http://doi.org/10.21460/saga.2020.21.43 THE PROPOSED ELEMENTS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE (ICC) FOR INDONESIAN EFL ENGLISH TEACHERS Mas Muhammad Idris Yogyakarta State University masmuhammadidris@gmal.com Received: 28 April 2020 Accepted: 19 October 2020 Abstract The development of intercultural communicative competence (henceforth ICC) has inevitably made one be able to mingle and communicate efective- ly and appropriately utilizing the target language, for example English, with other people who have multiple backgrounds of culture, language, and nation. It is due to ICC is seen as a complex competence in this twenty-frst-century life. However, in the educational context, this competence is rarely noticed seriously by the Indonesian EFL or English teachers. It is based upon the previous research conducted by the writer in 2018. Therefore, this paper is to present a comprehensive understanding of ICC and recommend a number of competencies related to ICC that should be mastered by the Indonesian EFL or English teachers. Such competencies are linguistic, sociolinguistic, discourse, intercultural competence, and intercultural awareness which are all able to assist the Indonesian EFL or English teachers in developing their intercultural competence and their student’s ICC as well. Keywords: Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC), Indonesian EFL teachers, English teachers, Intercultural Competence (IC), English Ed- ucation. INTRODUCTION The enhancement of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in relation to EFL students should be taken into consideration since it has been noticed as the main aim in English language education and learning. This development of ICC can attempt to prepare and provide the EFL students with a lot of knowledge about cultural diferences so that they are able to live, mingle, and be aware of their own culture as well as respect to others’ cultures (Byram, 1997; Deardorf, 2006, Fantini, 2000; Idris, 2019; Tran & Sheepo, 2016). The term intercultural communicative competence or in short, intercultural competence (hereafter IC) can be defned based on an individual’s context (Spitzberg & Cupach, 1984). In the perspective of a professional domain, it is seen as one who has the ability to be competent that should be able to know not only how to interact efectively and properly with diverse people in a particular situation but also how to saga, Vol 2(1), February 2021