Attackers to Understand Indonesian Society and Culture: Quality of Textbooks

At this time Indonesian for foreign speakers (BIPA) is growing more rapidly in the international world. BIPA is one of the learning not only interested in ASEAN students. The BIPA is also of interest in parts of ASIA and Australia. This shows that the higher interest in learning Indonesian in various media. Thus, the amount of interest in the problems that occur in the field is not synchronized with textbooks that are in line with the wishes of foreign students in learning Indonesian. This study aims to explain and describe the quality of BIPA books that are focused on the Lentera Indonesia 2 Tingkat Madya. The form of research used is content analysis with a qualitative approach with regard to symbols or messages systematically and interpretatively and the data source used is the BIPA textbook. Data was collected using literature studies and references in the form of journals and textbooks to support data analysis. The results of this study found that the quality of medium level Indonesian Lantern 2 textbooks must be developed because each level of competency of textbooks is not registered. A good teaching book is a teaching book that suits the needs of foreign students and the principles of learning BIPA and BIPA teaching materials.