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This paper identifies the types of code switching and the reason of using it in Kartini movie. Code switching can occur in conversation between speakers turns or within a single speakers turn. It can occur between sentences called intersentential or within a single sentence called intrasentential. Code switching can arise from individual choice or to be used as a major identity marker for a group of speakers who must deal with more than one language in their common pursuits. In this case, code switching happens in one local language during the conversation in Kartini movie. That is unggah ungguh Javanese language which is well known with its elaborate of speech level. This study used descriptive qualitative research. The data were collected by documentary technique and the instrument of data collection was recorder. It was found that intersentential switching is the most type of code switching in Kartini movie, while the reason to do that is as the ethnic identity marker.