Amblyopia is a refractive error that is not fully corrected without any organic diseases. The purpose of this research was to investigate the characteristics of patients with amblyopia by age, sex, duration of complaints and type of the cause abnormality in Dr. Zainoel Abidin Hospital Banda Aceh. The design of this study were descriptive to determine the characteristics of amblyopia. The sample of this research were all of amblyopia patients who attended Ophthalmology polyclinic of Dr. Zainoel Abidin Hospital Banda Aceh from January 6th until March 31st 2012. The data were collected by interviews and recording, then analyzed by presented as percentage frequency distribution. Result of this study showed that patients with amblyopia were 34 people, with more common in children aged 6-11 years (47.1%), amblyopia occurs more in women (58.8%), patients with the duration of complaint