What is the Local Culture Teaching Strategy in BIPA Learning?

This paper is motivated by the importance of incorporating local cultural material into BIPA learning. Local culture is one form of Indonesian culture that is encountered by students in the local community. This paper tries to describe the importance of local cultural material in BIPA learning, local cultural material that BIPA learners need to learn, and the use of appropriate methods and media in cultural learning in the BIPA program. In this paper descriptive analytical methods are used. The results showed that learning local culture in BIPA learners could potentially eliminate cultural shock and increase better understanding of Indonesia. Appropriate local cultural material provided to BIPA learners is tangible cultural material that combines artifacts and cultural behavior of local communities, while intangible culture is an advanced material that is adjusted to the language competency of BIPA learners. The use of methods and media is contextual, in accordance with learning objectives, so it is very open to the merging of learning methods and media.