Indonesian helps to turn page for literacy with library
- Published: 28 Dec 2012 at 12.46
- Online news: Asia
Kiswanti went to great lengths to get people to read in Indonesia, a nation addicted to social media but with a lacklustre interest in books.
Indonesian woman Kiswanti, pictured as she speaks during an interview with AFP at her library in Pemagarsari village near Bogor, on February 2, 2012. Kiswanti went to great lengths to get people to read in Indonesia, a nation addicted to social media but with a lacklustre interest in books. Her humble efforts have snowballed and her modest village is now home to a library.
For six years, as she cycled on bumpy village mud tracks in western Java as a door-to-door herbal medicine vendor, Kiswanti would carry a stack of books on the back of her bike to lend to children.
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