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Social media helps libraries in remote areas in Nusa Tenggara promote literacy
Using smart phones and social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and others they have uploaded and published literacy activities in various remote areas, and getting in touch with literacy activists nationally and even globally to donate new books for them.
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Literacy activists and schoolteachers in remote areas of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) are making use of social media to enrich their respective book collections in a bid to improve reading habits among the younger generation in the province. (Shutterstock/-)
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iteracy activists and schoolteachers in remote areas of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) are making use of social media to enrich their respective book collections in a bid to improve reading habits among the younger generation in the province.
Using smart phones and social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and others they have uploaded and published literacy activities in various remote areas, and getting in touch with literacy activists nationally and even globally to donate new books for them.
The activities have also encouraged young people studying in other regions across Indonesia or even abroad to motivate activists and teachers in the province to establish libraries and literacy movements in villages in their respective remote regions.
In Flores, literacy activists move from one village to another and from one educational institution in remote regions to another, to promote the activities. Catholic priests and local youths have also joined hands to establish reading centers.
Local priest Wilfridus Babun, founder of West Flores Kompak Le Nuk, said the institution had established as many as 30 literacy groups across Flores and the Sumba Island hinterland.
He cited the success of the program thanks to a program initiated by state-owned postal company PT Pos Indonesia that helped his institution distribute books to the reading centers across Sumba Island and in several regencies in Flores Island. However, the program has since been halted.
"The end of the program influenced all the literacy knots that Kompak Le Nuk established in Manggarai, Ngadha and Sumba,” Babun told The Jakarta Post last week.
