Family-Based Women's Literacy Movement in Cultivating Children's Interest in Reading

Abstract

Low reading literacy causes human resources to be uncompetitive as a result of weak reading cultural abilities and the presence of gadget technology. The low interest in reading is expressed by the indicator that Indonesian people who read are 0.001%. One of the government programs is that the literacy movement has now become a mass movement. Women have a very strategic role in becoming a pillar of literacy culture in the family sphere. South Lampung Regency in 2023 there will only be one village left behind, namely Baru Ranji village. One of the factors is the large number of children dropping out of school. This research aims to analyze the literacy movement and the role of women in fostering their children's interest in reading. This research is qualitative with a case study approach. This research reveals how the women's literacy movement fosters an interest in reading from an early age in children. In this research it is revealed that the women's literacy movement accompanies parents in their efforts to foster reading behavior in their children while they are busy as sharecroppers, even though in the family it is still limited to strategic facilities, for example, there is no signal support so it is difficult to access the latest information, there is still a lack of insight among the women in the family, the education level of the women in the family is still below educational standards.