{"id":15057,"date":"2026-04-20T09:38:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literasi.org\/berita\/spreading-the-literacy-virus\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T07:51:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:51:29","slug":"spreading-the-literacy-virus","status":"publish","type":"berita","link":"https:\/\/literasi.org\/en\/berita\/spreading-the-literacy-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreading the literacy virus"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"15057\" class=\"elementor elementor-15057 elementor-14157\" data-elementor-post-type=\"berita\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8b7a191 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8b7a191\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d56aaf3\" data-id=\"d56aaf3\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7fa8c87 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7fa8c87\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Literacy is a bridge for students in education, equipping them to understand and navigate developments around them. However, access to literacy in Sumba, in particular, remains challenging. A lack of quality reading materials, less interactive and engaging literacy activities, and less creative teaching methods are all factors that impact literacy access. Based on this, YLAI (Yayasan Literasi Anak Indonesia) is collaborating with the East and Sumba government to develop literacy through the Balanced Reading Program, which targets public elementary schools and PAUD.    <\/span><b>Balanced Reading Program<\/b> <\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The balanced reading program has been running for over seven months. There are 17 elementary schools participating in 2025 program in East and West Sumba. During the program&#8217;s implementation, the District of Education selected nine specially trained regional facilitators to assist with the program&#8217;s development in each school, who had also received training. Each month, the regional facilitators assisted and monitored the program.    <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b6c4116 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b6c4116\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d05082c\" data-id=\"d05082c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-69eee2f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"69eee2f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"548\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/literasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Pak-Sandri-fasda-Sumba-Timur-548x1024.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-14162\" alt=\"Pak Sandri fasda Sumba Timur\" srcset=\"https:\/\/literasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Pak-Sandri-fasda-Sumba-Timur-548x1024.jpeg 548w, https:\/\/literasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Pak-Sandri-fasda-Sumba-Timur-161x300.jpeg 161w, https:\/\/literasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Pak-Sandri-fasda-Sumba-Timur-600x1121.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/literasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Pak-Sandri-fasda-Sumba-Timur.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-30ccf8f\" data-id=\"30ccf8f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-92596d7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"92596d7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pak Sandri is a regional facilitator for East Sumba Regency. He is an elementary school teacher, but his school is not targeted by the program and through his experience mentoring the program. He witnessed and experienced firsthand the changes that occurred in students and teachers who implemented the balanced reading program.    <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, Pak Sandri facilitated meetings requested by teachers after school hours to share best practices and further practice implementing reading activities in the classroom. They also provided a forum for discussion, addressing challenges encountered and addressing potential solutions. <\/span><\/p><p> <\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remote locations, varying teacher abilities, support from school leaders, and the perception that mentoring is a personal assessment were some of the challenges faced by the regional facilitators. However, Pak Sandri and his fellow regional facilitators never gave up on spreading the literacy virus. They consistently strive to find solutions and overcome challenges faced in the field.   <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His enthusiasm for spreading the literacy virus deserves appreciation. He even trains teachers at the school where he works, even though it is not a target school for the program. He also felt the benefits of the program training personally. Pak Sandri participated in the 2025 provincial-level Teacher and Education Personnel Appreciation Competition in the transformative teacher category. He shared best practices for early      <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">diagnostic assessment<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of reading ability using the form obtained during the regional facilitator training. He won second place in the Transformative Teacher and Education Personnel Category at the elementary school level in East Nusa Tenggara Province.   <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We hope that more public elementary schools and early childhood education (PAUD) in Sumba will receive training in the balanced reading program and implement the results in their classrooms,\u201d he said. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Tanah Marapu, the literacy virus has spread from West to East, from educators to early childhood students.<br><\/span><br>(Petricia Andini Hutasoit)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tax-news":[75],"kategori":[],"program-name":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-15057","berita","type-berita","status-publish","hentry","tax-news-articles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spreading the literacy virus - Yayasan Literasi Anak Indonesia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/literasi.org\/en\/berita\/spreading-the-literacy-virus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spreading the literacy virus - Yayasan Literasi Anak Indonesia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Literacy is a bridge for students in education, equipping them to understand and navigate developments around them. 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