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Cognitive performance had an important role played on students- academic success. Research on cognitive capacity profiles for children who lived in rural area was considered emergency. This is necessary to design appropriate teaching strategy for rural children. The purpose of the research was to describe working memory capacity and short term memory for Bajo-s children in primary school. The research used survey method which is consist of thirty five students from 4th grade in elementary school. Working memory was measured by using backward digit span and short term memory was measured by using fordward digit span. The result showed that there was not significance difference between working memory and short term memory. But, scores of short term memory was higher than working memory. These result indicate that low capacity of information manipulation in mind. Further research is need to create teaching strategy to improve working memory capacity.