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English for elementary education unit in Indonesia is regarded as local content curriculum area which mandates that it should include value and local knowledge associated with region in which English curriculum is delivered (Ministerial Decree No.060/U/1993). However observation shows that this policy has not seen yet applied in several elementary schools English textbooks which sold in the market and used by several elementary English teachers in Surakarta. Considering this phenomena, this research aims to investigate 1. The learning tools used by the elementary English teachers regarding to this policy, 2. Teachers- effort in implementing the government policy of English as local content curriculum area. This qualitative study employs case study design to observe and conduct toward elementary English teachers from different education unit background and apply thematic analysis to analyse the data. The findings show that 1. Elementary English teachers have not yet acom modated the local content in the learning tools such as in the syllabus, lesson plan, media and learning source, 2. Teachers only pay a bit attention in implementing this policy