Language Agency Invites Kendari Communities to Boost Public Literacy
Literacy communities play a strategic role as the frontline in cultivating reading interest and expanding knowledge access to the grassroots level.
Kendari (ANTARA) - The Agency for Language Development and Cultivation (Badan Bahasa) of the Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology has invited all literacy movement communities in Kendari City, Southeast Sulawesi (Sultra), to continue collaborating in improving the literacy index of the community in the region.
Head of the Agency for Language Development and Cultivation of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology, Hafidz Muksin, when met with literacy communities in Kendari on Friday, stated that literacy communities have a strategic role as the frontline in cultivating reading interest and expanding knowledge access to the grassroots level.
“Literacy communities are strategic partners of the government. We invite fellow movers in Kendari to remain consistent in assisting the community, because literacy transformation cannot run on its own without the active role of communities that understand the local characteristics of their environment,” said Hafidz Muksin during a dialogue with literacy movement communities in Kendari.
Hafidz Muksin mentioned that strengthening literacy is not merely about reading ability, but an effort to create a critical and competitive generation. Therefore, his side is committed to continuing to provide support through various assistance programmes and the provision of quality reading materials.
Meanwhile, the Forum of Community Reading Gardens (TBM) in Kendari City, represented by Kiki, welcomed the presence and direct support from the national language authority. According to him, this visit provides a boost of enthusiasm for literacy volunteers.
Kiki explained that literacy movers in Kendari have so far continued to operate independently. However, he emphasised the importance of policy or regulatory support from the government to ensure the sustainability of creative spaces for the community.
“Our hope to the government is the creation of more regulations that support our activities. We in the community are ready to continue contributing and moving forward, but we greatly need growing spaces protected by government policies,” he explained.
Through synergy between the government and active community movements, it is hoped that the literacy culture in Kendari City and Southeast Sulawesi in general can develop more rapidly and provide positive impacts on improving the quality of human resources in the region.
At the meeting, the national literary magazine LIRIS was also distributed, a platform for expressing creative literary works for students, educators, and communities.