Glad that Papua Hinterland Students Get Books

Glad that Papua Hinterland Students Get Books

Difficult access to books and having few teachers at school used to be some of the reasons Neas Wanimbo (25) and two of his friends founded the Hano Wene library community.
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Perhaps this kind of literacy community has been carried out by many social activists in several big cities in Indonesia. Volunteers usually collect book donations and then share them with entities that are more in need.
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The same thing is done by Hano Wene. However, the next challenge for Hano Wene is different is how to bring the collection of books from Jakarta, as a donation collection location, to the interior of Papua.
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Because to distribute the collection of books does not only require huge costs, but also the persistence of the volunteers. The interior of Papua can only be penetrated by off road cars and some even have to walk.
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At present the government is conducting a political approach with Papuans through infrastructure development. Whereas in addition to infrastructure, access to education for Papuans, especially those in the interior, is no less important to pay attention to.
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Previously the Ministry of Education and Culture (Kemendikbud) had inaugurated the Secretariat for the Acceleration of Papua and West Papua Education Development at the Office of the Papua Quality Assurance Agency (LPMP), in Kota Raja, Jayapura, Papua.
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This is important to accelerate the improvement and even distribution of quality of education in Papua and West Papua. Because of the lack of increased access to education also felt by schools located in one of the interior of Papua, precisely in Tangma Village, Yahukimo Regency.
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To get to Tangma, you have to take a plane twice, from Jakarta to Sentani and then another plane to Wamena. Furthermore, Tangma Village can only be penetrated by offroad cars or other ways by walking for 10 hours as is usually done by local residents.
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The difficulty of accessing the road to Tangma is comparable to the beautiful mountain scenery and the warmth of the welcoming school administrators. Unfortunately, at that time, post-violence in Wamena had an impact on the security and vigilance of residents around Tangma.
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Said Principal of YPPGI Elementary School Anike Tenouye (37), all schools in Wamena and Yahukimo were temporarily closed for security reasons and will be active again in early 2020. Some students from more remote interior also choose to stay at their homes.
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Typically, said Anike, around 400 students were busy playing in the school yard and crowded the room made of boards. Even so, some of the remaining students, local youth, and school administrators were enthusiastic when the group arrived with sacks of books.