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This article attempts to explores local and target language cultures inserted into the EFL textbooks written by Indonesian authors used in Senior High School level in Banten. The selected textbooks i.e Look Ahead: An English Course for Senior High School X, Bahasa Inggris KTSP X and Interlanguage: English for Senior High School Student X taken as the sources of the data. The findings of the study indicates that the selected textbooks have integrated local and target language cultures which are, in general, texts and images type. The cultural aspects categorized with Honnigman and Koentjaraningrat categorisation i.e. ideas, activities and artifacts. The analysis show that the author of Interlanguage textbook has integrated target language cultural aspects more than that of the other textbooks. At the same times, the authors have also integrated the local cultural aspects which based on the analysis, that Interlanguage textbook has more proportion of local cultures than the others. In addition, the result highlighted that the idea is the category that mostly appear in the textbooks. Keywords: textbooks, cultures, EFL learning