I agreed with Mas Fatih,

The inferior feeling must be eliminated.
And the culture of reading and writing must be increased.
We are waiting for the domino effect.

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I love reading and usually spend around 4-5 per day to read. Can you imagine what I fell when founding that my university in Japan has a size of department store? It even has newspapers from around the world, including Indonesian Kompas.

Talking about the importance of reading for low class society, I remember there was one newspaper dealer appearing in Who Wants to be a Millionaire. He almost reached the last question, he even knew the name of Charles Darwin’s ship. When Tantowi Yahya asked why as a newspaper dealer who did not proceed to higher education could answer some difficult questions like that, he simply replied: “because I read a lot”.

Anyway, are you sure about the price of Kompas? Last month I went back to Indonesia and definitely remember that I bought Kompas for 1000 Rupiah. Well, it was indeed still higher than The Times of India’s.

#In Surabaya, when you buy Kompas after 11 oclock, the price is Rp 1000,- not before 11. Im not sure if the same case also applies for Jakarta. What time did you buy Kompas back then?

“So, what are you people doing other than shopping and eating out?”

hahaha, I believe that I cannot give the answer to. I think we can’t count on goverment. Its time all people who care to start.

You can find many book community in bandung. Try this one http://www.rumahbuku.info. Cozy place with respective books.

what a great lesson from indian’s professor. it’s time for us to change our habit and culture. and to be truth it came back to ourself, because nobody’s can change ourself if we didn’t change it by ourself.
“permission to copy it”

Good post. I used to read a lot actually, and somehow give it up for magazines. I really should read more from now on

Bang Fatih, this post is 110% correct. Over here every morning I saw people reading news paper inside mrt, while they quing for the bus, or taxi, a rare view compare to my home town in Jakarta. It such a pity the young generations were occupied themself with the latest handphone rather than developing a reading habbit. But then I realize its the up bringing, how our parents become our role model.
And yes, too bad many of us become more and more materialistic in the sense that what bag you wear and what phone you carry is purely represent who you are. It really a great and noble idea to build a library for the villagers, something that I always want to do.

We need IDR 3000 to buy Jakarta Post?? Hellooo…. It’s IDR 5500, mate!

The culture of reading must be encouraged in the family. I grew up with books and newspaper surround me. My mum went back to uni when I was 7 and suddenly I read Budi Darma’s Olenka when I was 11 and Musashi when I was 13. Rendra and Sapardi were my breakfast. I even tried to read TS Eliot when my English vocabulary was only consisted of “please” and “thank you”. Not that I understood them though *lol.

However, book is considerably expensive in Indonesia. The collection is not that great either. It seems there are a lot of ‘pop books’, and it’s difficult to find a classic one.

My mum was participating in the project to build what they call “taman baca” somewhere in the village in Lombok, I can’t remember where, as a part of the programme initiated by one minister’s wife. People in Indonesia have lots of big ideas, somehow can twist some arms to actually make it happen, but couldn’t engage in long term commitments, so after a few months the place went bust. The problem? Nobody maintains it. Sad.

That’s why Indian have strong IT and smart people than Indonesian. Because They like to read and goverment give it the facility

Cak … I remember I was the only one who almost always read (English) novels between classes during my university years *eons ago*. My fellow classmates mocked and judged me as ‘belaguk’. They just didn’t realize the huge knowledge they could get through reading. Most of them even considered studying from lecture notes as too much reading already. How sad.

Oh, they’re reading alright. Harry Potter is a form of literary too right?

First thing first, there are those who are more receptive to the idea of auditory learning, visual learning, and/or kinesthetic learning. In my opinion, it’s mainly divided by two: theoritical and practical learning.

As an example, when teaching children aged 7 or 8 years old, we can no longer give them a block of words to memorize (to memorize, untuk menghafal, sounds familiar?). We should encourage them to play with science. Get them IN the process of knowledge, not just consume it.

Therefore, yes, the government (and NGOs, and the media) must facilitate more access to the reading culture, but also to the writing, creating, and innovating culture as a progressive continuance.

Reading is a start–cutting those high taxes on imported books is a start as well. Then again, we wouldn’t be writing these comments if we weren’t accustomed to reading. Note: Indonesia gains revenue around six trillion rupiahs on books.

Best of luck for your project.

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Hi Fatih, Great post! If you have time, please read the article on this link below:

http://www.suarapembaruan.com/News/2006/12/29/Utama/ut02.htm

Irina Amongpradja is my mom and I know exactly the difficulties that she has been going through to help these children, the future generation of our country. Really heartbreaking. After being kicked out from the old building, which was owned by the government, my mother built a smaller “school” so these children can continue with their study.

Knowing that you have a long plan to set up a decent library in every village around you, maybe you can also help her in providing education for these children, by any means. Send me an e-mail if you are interested. My salute to your vision.

Pak Fatih–and all bloggers, I have a suggestion.

Why not publish a book, written by bloggers? An anthology of articles, or something alike? Maybe concerning on a specific theme, paradigm, or cause.

From my feed reader, I just found out there are over 900 blog posts published in around thirty blogs I’ve bookmarked–this blog is one of them. Over 900 blog posts (!!!).
The posts are already written and published anyways, therefore each blogger won’t have to start from scratch. Just set up a team who is willing to execute the project.

So, why not create a milestone out of it? In form of a book, of course.

Anyone else interested?

But of course, this would mean bloggers will have to stop pissing each other off, and actually seek out a common ground to work on. Only by then, our local bloggers can contribute something worthwhile for the larger mass, the society.

Personal library for our middle class? Ahhhh…Surely they do have it but mostly have changed it into a walk-in closet, Baby, heh heh heh..!

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