Implementation of Traditional Music Tools in Cultural and Art Learning for Mentally Disabled Students

Music is a sound that is raised and accepted by someone and has different characteristics according to the location, culture, taste, history, and music lovers. Indonesia has a diverse diversity of regional music. Regional music or traditional music is a musical instrument that is influenced by the culture of a particular region. The study aims to determine the use of traditional musical instruments, analyzing the inhibiting factors and describing efforts by the school to overcome these inhibiting factors on art an culture learning for mentally disabled. This research is a descriptive research which the subject in this research is mentally disabled students in elementary schools. Techniques of data collection are documentation, interview and observation. The result of the study shows the implementation of traditional musical instruments has not been maximized as supporting the mentally disabled children learning. The inhibiting factors the limited facilities an infrastructure and learning of cultural arts using images. The efforts to develop the quality of education by updating learning through training and conferences