Literacy campaigns to be intensified

Literacy campaigns to be intensified

SURAKARTA, Central Java: The government will be intensifying literacy campaigns because 5.8 million Indonesians are still illiterate, a senior official said.

The campaigns will be intensified in all provinces and the government has allocated huge amounts of funds for this, Director General for Nonformal Education, Youth and Sports Affairs Soedjiarto said last Saturday.

The official declined to mention the actual sum made available for the campaign.

The project is implemented in cooperation with the education ministry, home affairs ministry, religious affairs ministry and the Armed Forces headquarters.

"We hope, that in the next five years to come, there will be no illiterate citizens," he said. (har)