READING CULTURE DEVELOPMENT FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

The effort of Indonesia Government to improve the people standard of living through education. In accordance with National Education Law No. 20 in the year of 2003 has mentioned that every Indonesia people with the age of 7 - 15 years old has an obligation to have free of charge compulsory education up to finish. As sated in the Koran Holly Book, iqra’ means reading, analysis, deepen, deliver, research and others. Source of reading obtained from holy book, work result of human such as book and newspaper. The aim of the research is: 1. To describe how far the parent of student has given facility for reading book. 2. To describe how far the parent of student purchase reading book outside school assignment. 3. Are school children including a good book reader. This research is a qualitative descriptive research conducted in Malang. The total respondent of 90 elementary school students stayed in Malang. The data collected from questionnaire, interview and observation. This research result has shown that eighty percent of student’s parent less provided reading book facility up to now. They only purchase book as related with assignment given by the teacher themselves. The limitation of students book means including less good book reader. Keyword: reading book, reading culture. habits and interes