Current Policy of Literacy and its

Implication in Early Education in

Indonesia

Nopita Sari (A1B217062)

Rizki Dwiki Reza Usman (A1B217074)
Ardi Pangestu (RRA1B217017)
Miftahudin (RRA1B217012)
Pambudi Dwi Ramadhan (RRA1B217013)
 Content
The Importance of Literacy

The Policy of Literacy

The Purposes of Policy in Literacy

The Implementation and Implication of

Literacy

The Advantages and Disadvantages

The Example of the Activities

Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay said on
International Literacy Day this year:

“Literacy is the first step towards freedom, towards liberation

from social and economic constraints. It is the prerequisite for
development, both individual and collective. It reduces poverty
and inequality, creates wealth, and helps to eradicate problems
of nutrition and public health.”
The Importance of Literacy
1. Increase children/students basic ability in writing, reading and counting.
2. Develop children/students critical thinking.
3. Preparing children to enter the world of school.
4. Preparing children/students/other people to facing the world
5. Add more information
The Policy of Literacy
Policy of literacy in International education
“2030 agenda for sustainable development”

Policy of literacy in Indonesia:

“Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (Permendikbud) Nomor 23 Tahun
2015 tentang Penumbuhan Budi Pekerti melalui pembiasaan membaca selama 15
menit sebelum belajar.”
The Purposes of the Policy in Indonesia
The purpose of literacy policy to foster a
literacy culture in the education ecosystem
starting from the family, school, and community
in the context of lifelong learning in an effort to
improve quality.
Implementation of the Policy

The government of Indonesia has decided the policy

of literacy in education field of Indonesia. The
students should read a book 15 minutes before
starting the learning process in classroom, it could be
fiction or non fiction.
The Implication
• Know that a child's capacity for learning is not determined at birth
and there is a great deal parents and educators can do about it
(National Research Council & Institute of Medicine, 2000).
• Be aware that there are many informal and enjoyable ways that
language and literacy skills can be developed in the home.
• Provide opportunities for children to use what they know about
language and literacy in order to help them transfer what they know
to
• Improve vocabularies
 Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantages
• With the “Gerakan Literacy“ policy,
it is expected that this policy is
able to create a "well literated"
student
• It can improve their personality
(Diligent,smart)
• It can improve the student’s ability
(vocabulary)
• It can improve their brain’s ability
(verbal, analysis)
Disadvantages
• Potentially cause hoaxes
• Potentially to cause changes in a
person's personality
• Hard to be implicated, the fact that
statistic shows that is only 5.7% of
schools in Indonesia, from primary
to senior high schools, have
libraries. (Mediaindonesia.com)
 The Examples of the Activity for Early Education

Read, write and count

In this activity the

teacher still teach the
students about how
to read, write and
count.
1. Flash Card

In this activity the teacher should

provide some flash card that related
to the topic of the material, and the
teacher can makes a game by using
flashcard.
2. Describe
picture

In this activity the teacher

should provide some pictures
and describe it to the
students what does picture
means.
 3. Drawing
and coloring

In this activity the teacher

ask the students to draw
something and coloring it
and then put it on the wall
magazine.

For the coloring activity

the teacher can provide
some pictures and ask
the students to color the
picture as they want.
4. Story Telling

In this activity the teacher will tell the

students about a short story by also
doing a gesture that shown in the story
5. Memorizing

In this activity the teacher will

explain about the function of
each part of body and then
after the explanation the
teacher will ask the students
one by one to explain again
what they remember about the
part of body and its function.
6. Singing

In this activity the teacher

can provide a song and ask
students to sing together.
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