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Website design contest aims to preserve Sundanese script, culture
Following its first iteration that aimed to digitalize Javanese script, the second website design competition focuses on digitalizing Sundanese script.
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PANDI, the national domain name registry, and the Sundanese Cultural Development and Digitalization Center at Padjajaran University (PDP-BS Unpad) are holding a website design competition to preserve Sundanese script. (Shutterstock/File)
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he Indonesian Internet Domain Name Registry (PANDI), in collaboration with experts on Sundanese script from the Padjajaran University Sundanese Cultural Development and Digitalization Center (PDP-BS Unpad), is holding the second edition of a website design competition that aims to preserve indigenous script and culture.
All submissions must use the Sundanese script for the domain name and at least half of the website content.
According to PANDI registry operations chief Mohamad Shidiq Purnama, the first competition focused on Javanese script (Hanacaraka).
“[This second event] is a continuation of a series of competitions to help preserve Nusantara script, which is among our concerns,” Shidiq said in a statement on Monday as quoted by tempo.co, referring to Indonesia's nickname that means "archipelago".
“We are committed to participating in digitalizing Nusantara script so it can be used as an internet domain name,” he added.
Those interested can register for the competition until Aug. 14, with the deadline for all submissions falling on Nov. 13. The organizers will announce the winner on Dec. 11.
PDP-BS Unpad head Ganjar Kurnia said that they expected the public, especially the people of West Java, the origin of Sundanese culture, to join the competition and take part in preserving the ancient culture.
“We hope that the public can take part in preserving the Sundanese alphabet and combine it with the advances of technological by creating websites, so that the Sundanese alphabet can be acknowledged more by the younger generation and the general public,” he said. (gis/kes)
