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Movement aims to break poor reading habit in Jakarta
It was aimed to activate all reading communities in the city, as the event would be held in 100 reading rooms, including libraries in integrated child-friendly public spaces (RPTRAs), reading parks (TBM) and community libraries.
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The challenge has targeted to involve 3,000 children and 1,500 volunteers. Registration can be done online or at the nearest local reading point.
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ndonesia has a generally poor reading culture as supported by findings and research, prompting the Jakarta administration to team up with a local movement to promote reading, especially among the youth.
The administration and Jakarta Reading Park Forum (FTBM) are holding a month-long movement from April 1 to 31 called the #BacaJakarta (#ReadJakarta) challenge. The movement, inspired by the Mayor’s Summer Reading Challenge in Dallas, the United States, challenges children aged 7 to 12 years old to read continuously for 30 days.
It was aimed to activate all reading communities in the city, as the event would be held in 100 reading rooms, including libraries in integrated child-friendly public spaces (RPTRAs), reading parks (TBM) and community libraries.
"We want to encourage kids to read 15 minutes to 30 minutes a day through the challenge. We will give them booklets and they can get stamps in every reading point in Jakarta,” the head of the reading forum, Nandha Julistya, said on Friday, adding that the event had received books from several non-profit organizations.
The challenge has targeted to involve 3,000 children and 1,500 volunteers. These volunteers, he said, would have direct interactions with the children and encourage them to read. Registration can be done online or at the nearest local reading point.
“We want to map children's reading interest in Jakarta through this movement,” Nandha said.
The forum conducted research to measure the reading interest of children throughout the capital in 2016, discovering that North Jakarta had the highest reading interest followed by West Jakarta and Central Jakarta. Thousand Islands regency came out third while South Jakarta and East Jakarta ranked the lowest.
