Bahasa Indonesia Textbooks from Hots Perspective

This research aims to determine the characteristics of Bahasa Indonesia subject textbooks used at schools viewed from the higher order thinking skills (HOTS) perspective. This research focuses on the questions, exercises, and texts contained in the students’ textbooks, especially on the cognitive dimensions of Bloom's Taxonomy. This research uses content analysis technique with the Bahasa Indonesia textbooks at the junior high school level as the main source. The analysis process uses Bloom's Taxonomy theory revised by Anderson and Kratwhol, which makes a clear separation between the dimensions of knowledge and cognitive processes. The knowledge dimension is divided into four types/dimensions, namely factual, conceptual, procedural and metacognitive, while the cognitive process consists of 6 (six) steps, namely memorizing (C1), understanding (C2), applying (C3), analyzing (C4), evaluating (C5), and creating (C6). The results of the analysis show that the value obtained in each book has the highest value at level 1 and 2. Yrama Widya's book has a score of 13 for the memorizing category, 13 for the understanding category, 3 for the applying category, 1 for the analyzing category, and 0 in the evaluating and creating categories respectively. Furthermore, Wahana Pengetahuan book perfoms its memorizing and understanding categories has 25 points respectively, 27 in applying category, 7 in analyzing, and 6 in evaluating and creating aspects.