This study was to know student teachers’ perception on teaching internship program for the development of pedagogical competence. The study implicated 29 student teachers as respondents from English Education study program at Private Islamic University with adopting descriptive research design through mixed method. The respondents were selected through purposive sampling to fill in the questionnaire with 20 items and perform interview. The findings indicate, 11 student teachers perceived teaching internship program is moderate and 18 student teachers perceived teaching internship is high for the development of pedagogical competence, with the mean score of 64.2069 which is in the high category. It shows most of student teachers perceived teaching internship program could highly develop their pedagogical competence. In addition, there were items that stand out because student teachers judged they were able to improve their pedagogical competence well especially on those items. The items were 3 items of understanding lesson plan indicator and 1 item of understanding implementation educational learning indicator. Therefore, teaching internship program can be a real facility to improve pedagogical competence.
Keywords: Perception, teaching internship program, pedagogical competence.