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National Peer Learning Meeting in 2024 held by National Library in Bali. (Photo : Perpusnas) - 

VOInews, Bali : The National Library of the Republic of Indonesia (Perpusnas RI) is holding a National Peer Learning Meeting in 2024. The event will last for three days, from 6 to 8 November 2024, taking place in Bali.

Indonesia's challenges in the future will be faced with the complexity of global development and change. Therefore, Indonesia's development concept will depend on economic growth supported by human capital skills.

The Indonesian nation will experience the peak of the demographic bonus in 2045. The demographic bonus is a condition where the productive age population is greater than the non-productive age population. This condition really must be maximized to avoid a spike in unemployment and low community productivity.

“Currently we need to design the demographic bonus as a big benefit. "And the existence of libraries clearly has a very strong correlation in building human capital," said Deputy for Library Resource Development Adin Bondar when opening the National Peer Learning Meeting in Sanur, Bali, Thursday (7/11/2024).

The library is an educational instrument for everyone. Its existence, apart from providing knowledge and information services to readers, increasing the love of reading, must also have a significant impact on reconstructing human resources based on reading behavior so as to help create a literate society.

"A literate society is a society that is knowledgeable, innovative and creative," added Adin.

In 2016, the World Economic Forum (Word Economy Forum) warned long ago that a period of disruption would occur. The development of technology and communication has resulted in many jobs being taken over by automation and machines. This means that human existence begins to be reduced.

So, this is where interpersonal and analytical skills become important. Humans should not only understand knowledge but also analyze, evaluate, and even create new ideas.

The National Library is grateful that the initiation of the Social Inclusion Based Library Transformation (TPBIS) program has so far received appreciation from many parties because it has been proven to provide social and welfare impacts. In fact, in several regions, the TPBIS program has been replicated. They believe that TPBIS can be a strategic instrument in controlling inflation, reducing poverty and stunting.

"The occurrence of extreme poverty and stunting is due to poverty of information and knowledge so that people do not have skills and creativity," added Adin

In the international arena, the TPBIS program has also received a positive response. A number of countries at the Colombo Plan forum in August 2024 specifically visited and learned directly about good practices from TPBIS.

Currently, the National Library continues to encourage improvements in the quality of library services by building reading rooms as study spaces and developing 10 thousand village/district libraries and community reading parks through the assistance of quality reading materials.

Expansion of library services was also carried out by targeting mobile library fleets, building digital reading corners (Pocadi), and reading points that can be accessed online (QR Code) containing reading material sources for various subjects, as well as strengthening the TPBIS model.

Previously, the Head of the Center for Public and Special Library Development, Nani Suryani, said that the National Library had previously held similar meetings at the regional level online involving 600 village/sub-district libraries receiving TPBIS 2024 benefits from 143 districts/cities and 34 provinces, as well as Expert Trainers.

"Today is the peak activity where partners are invited to share stories, strategies and good practices, as well as broader insights from the material presenters," explained Nani.

At this peak moment, no less than 700 participants had the opportunity to attend directly representing institutions/groups from districts/cities in each province. The remaining thousands of participants took part online.

A number of sources involved include the Director of Religion, Education and Culture of the Ministry of National Development Planning/Bappenas Didik Darmanto, University of Indonesia Sociologist Paulus Wirutomo, Philosophy Lecturer at STF Driyarkara Jakarta Agustinus Setyo Wibowo, Head of the Purwakarta Regency Archives and Library Service Asep Supriatna, Agus Munawar Literacy activist , Program Assistant Team Leader Erlyn Sulistyaningsih, and MSME practitioners.

It is hoped that the National Peer Learning Meeting activities can become a forum for generating new ideas, good practice activities that can be carried out collaboratively and be more adaptive in facing global changes//VOI