National Library of Indonesia meeting for 2021 economic improvement
rancakmedia.com - In the midst of the Covid-19 outbreak, increased literacy is believed to be able to take advantage of improving the economy, for that National Library to host the Arrangement Meeting (Perpusnas) 2021
This is the goal of the National Library of Indonesia to hold a meeting on the regulation of the national library sector in 2021. The 2021 National Arrangement Meeting (Rakornas) for the library sector exclusively discusses the topic "Integrating the strengthening of downstream and upstream literacy culture" to economic improvement and systematic reform "
"Coalitions and arrangements between artists in the library sector will be carried out in the plan for a national coordination meeting which will be carried out intensively so that the library becomes the leading sector for increasing literacy, development and creation to realize citizens who think and have character," said the Head of National Library of Indonesia Syarif Bando, speaking Monday (22 /3/2021) at the National Regulatory Body Building opened in Jakarta Unlike the activities of last year's National Regulatory Meeting, the impact of the global Covid-19 outbreak led to the National Regulatory Meeting, which took place March 22-23 d carried out via virtual or online and attended by 10,000 participants, can be sampled through the social media of the National Library of Indonesia.
Muhammad Syarif Bando explained that the national face-to-face meeting had the aim of strengthening the role of libraries in transferring knowledge to increase literacy culture and play a role in improving the national economy, Monday, March 22, 2021.
The tendency to read in Indonesia, the Head of National Library of Indonesia, said that literacy is an important requirement for producing superior human resources, because the depth of knowledge of one subject is a special key to increasing competitiveness.
"The current job is to ensure that downstream sites function optimally and function properly while ensuring that the reading needs of 270 million people are met," said Syarif Bundo.
In his presentation, the Head of National Library of Indonesia stated that the results of the assessment of the readability level of Indonesian citizens reached 55.74 % in 2020 and 53.84 % in 2019. This is counted in the medium group with reading frequency 4 times a week, reading time 1 hour 36 minutes / day and a total of 2 books per quarter. At that time, the commune's readability score was predicted to reach 63.3 in 2022.
He said that Indonesia's literacy perspective is still in the "moderate" group because of the low strength of connecting information related to ICT, the lack of availability and access to quality information.
"Therefore, the solution is to increase access to information, strengthen the information infrastructure and strengthen the information framework. This will lead to an even distribution of information and increased literacy which will affect welfare," said Syarif Bando.
Regional Libraries Improvements
According to Syarif Bundo, because of that national library requires regulations and alignment of the development of central and regional libraries to realize changes in literacy and readability of citizens.
He hopes that "the sign is an increase in the value of citizens' reading options with a target of 71.3 % in 2024 and the value of the citizen's literacy index to 15 % in 2024."
"This requires collaboration between ministries/agencies to support other needs," he said. The 2021 National Library of Indonesia Meeting was filled by the Minister of Teaching and Culture (Mendikbud) Nadiem Makarim, Minister of PDTT Village Abdul Halim Iskandar, Minister of Social Affairs (Mensos) Tri Rismaharini.
Besides that, the Minister also came Finance (Minister of Finance) Sri Mulyani, Minister of PPN / Bappenas Suharso Monoarfa, Minister of State Apparatus Strengthening and Bureaucratic Reform (Menpan RB) Tjahjo Kumolo, Chairman of Commission X DPR Syaiful Huda, Governor of Central Java (Central Java) Ganjar Pranowo, and Magetan Regent Suprawoto.