If strategic steps to improve the nation’s children’s literacy are not immediately taken, it will be hard for us to compete in the future
Jakarta The National Literacy Movement needs support from all parties to accelerate the improvement of reading interest in Indonesia, People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) Deputy Speaker Lestari Moerdijat has said.
“If strategic steps to improve the nation’s children’s literacy are not immediately taken, it will be hard for us to compete in the future,” she added in a written statement released here on Monday.
In a survey conducted by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), whose results were released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 2019, Indonesia had ranked 62nd out of 70 countries, or in the bottom 10 countries with low literacy levels, Moerdijat noted.
According to data from the Language Development Agency of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology, the ministry recently sent more than 2.5 million copies of supporting enrichment books to 41 regions that are included in the 3T regions (frontier, outermost, and remote regions) of four provinces, she said.
The four provinces are Papua, West Papua, Maluku, and North Maluku.
Source: Antara News