Abstract
Since the growth of the Indonesian press industry in 1970’s, a popular novel swept the world development of mass media that travels fast. Because, there are facts and data that the majority of Indonesian popular novel originally published as a serial story in newspapers and magazines. By convincing people to classify a particular novel into a novel class of literature or popular novels. The reason why the less precise subjective used as a criterion for determining a particular novel as a literary novel or popular novels, because the consideration is used only on the basis of personal perception. Of course it is not scientifically justifiable, because not based on theory and methods clear, for example by looking at the structure of intrinsic and extrinsic, or sociological aspects. Therefore, an inventory of the intrinsic characteristics of a popular novel is very important. The characteristics include romantic-sentimental, themes of love and households, single groove, plot straight, contemporary dialogue, the physical setting of the family environment rich, educated family, campus, disposition spectacular and explosive, anti-double meaning.
Keywords: intrinsic characteristics, popular novels, plot, characters, setting, disposition, aesthetic understanding.