Rebuilding Spirit of Literacy Together With FKD MANTEK



            More days literacy culture in Indonesia is receding. Whereas in this modern era the love of literacy level should be increased because has been many libraries established, even there are bookmobiles and online libraries. So there is no reason to not reading a book. But in the reality, we as the next generation of our nation are reluctant to read, even for touching books or another reading materials we are very infrequent. According to the data of the Organisation For Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the reading culture of Indonesians is ranked the lowest among 52 countries in Asia. UNESCO reports in 2012, on average European children can spend 25 books in a year, while Indonesia reaches the lowest point precisely 0,001%. It means that of 1000 Indonesian children, only a child who can spend a book in a year. This is very apprehensive, how does our country can progress if the level of literacy is low? How will we become the agent of change later if our knowledge and insight are nothing?
             Islamic State University of Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang as the World Class University which combines two learning methods that based on a boarding school and academic lectures as general really need literacy containers to be able to produce more qualified human resources. Therefore as the university student of Islamic State University of Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang, my friends and I took an initiative to construct a discussion and literacy forum that will bear intellectual seeds namely FKD MANTEK. With the existence of this community is expected to accommodate students who are thirst of knowledge, because searching science not only limited in the class but also outside the class which available for a public.
            Communication Forum and Intellectual Student Discussion, commonly called FKD MANTEK, is one of learning forum develops communication, discussion and literacy culture initiated by student across department and universities such as Management, Mathematics, Physic, Arabic Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, Constitutional Law, Islamic Business Law, Islamic Religious Education, and the others, at least each department must have its own delegation. Some universities who have joined us except Islamic State University of Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang itself are Brawijaya University and Islamic University Malang (UNISMA), in addition, they also come from different organizations and regions. It sounds interesting because it is very difficult to unify the difference, but with determination and willingness we are able to build and develop this community as currently. Latitude of FKD MANTEK is culture literacy movement which is supported by study classes formation with reliable and professional mentors of each, such as literature review, philosophy, Islamic studies and comparative religion, law study and debate, and journalistic classes. The study classes are conducted on a regular basis every Saturday, while on Monday we sometimes will organize book review or just getting gather to more familiar with each other.
            FKD MANTEK first established on17th of September 2016. So far FKD MANTEK has hundreds of participants with 46 activator members. Participants are anyone who participates in FKD MANTEK than activator members are people who have passed an upgrading and declared qualified to move this discussion forum.
            This miniature campus is cultured in academic discourse. The difference in this forum is a tradition that wants to be maintained to keep the repertoire of scholarship and the diversity of understanding. So the communication pattern of discussion, study and literacy are dynamic. In the midst of a crisis of difference that led to the split, FKD MANTEK attends with color and scientific atmosphere to be able to blend with anyone. Although this forum is new however due to the support and motivation of various elements, great senior activists, and counselors, FKD MANTEK successfully developed, as the evidence has published the first and second books of FKD MANTEK, those are Literacy, Discussion and Intelectual, and Literacy and Intellectual; Current Student.
            The existence of FKD MANTEK as communication, discussion, and literacy forum, it is hoped that not only can rebuild the spirit of literacy but also can produce qualified human resources and able to compete and commemorate economic community of Asia or in Bahasa, “Masyarakat Ekonomi Asia” (MEA).



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