This research deals with Indonesian students’ problem in writing. This research was designed to investigate: (1) the students’ problem in writing (2) the causes of the students’ problem in writing and (3) the teacher’s effort to overcome the student’s problem in writing. The subjects of this research were 22 students in the eighth grade and an English teacher of SMP Negeri 2 Rembang, Purbalingga. The data for this research was collected by using document analysis, questionnaire, and interviews. The document analysis was in the form of students’ English writing task about their past experience. From the document analysis, the researcher found problem related to 5 aspect of writing that were content, organization or generic structure, language feature or language use and mechanic where the most errors were found in the mechanic aspect and the fewest errors were in organization or generic structure aspect. This meant the most problems that faced by students was in the use of punctuation, capitalization, spelling and paragraphing. Based on the results from the questionnaire and the interviews, it was found that the nature of writing, lack of motivation, lack of practice, inadequate time were the causes of students experiencing problems in writing continuously. Furthermore, based on interviews with teachers, the efforts made by teachers to deal with these problems were through literacy programs, personal guiding, teacher's feedback, and vocabulary diary.