This research aims to know students need of interactive multimedia to learn Indonesian language skill. It was conducted in the Department of Primary School Teacher Education during the even semester of 2016/2017 academic year. Data collection techniques were observation, interview and literature study. The data were then analyzed qualitatively descriptive by the stages of data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion. The result of this research shows that lecturers still implement conventional teaching by using power point and modules as well as dominating the speech method. In other hand, both students and lecturers state there needs to be interactive multimedia to help students during the learning process. Students need attractive multimedia to avoid boredom. Based on the result of observation, 98.62% of students state interactive multimedia should be given learning objective, 71.72% of them desire short and brief lesson, 27.59% desire detail explanation of material, 99.31% desire inclusion of language implementation example, 97.24% desire learning evaluation, 82.07% desire bright colors appearance, 12.41% desire dark colors appearance, 90.34% desire the inclusion of back sound and sound effect, 96.55% desire the inclusion of animation and picture, and 100% students desire for menu button on interactive media for Indonesian language skill.