As a multilingual country, language maintenance is important to prevent the local language
or varieties from being perished. Javanese language subject at school is one of the languagemaintenance efforts from the government and this paper discusses about the language
attitude of the students toward it. There two kind language attitude in learning process,
Integrative attitude and instrumental attitude. The attitude that is possessed by the studentswill influence the success of Javanese language subject as language maintenance effort from
the government. This paper also discusses about the influence of language shift to more
dominant language such as Indonesian language and English toward the student’s attitudedevelopment
