Starfruit (maangkota.go.id) – The Malang City Education and Culture Office (Disdikbud) in collaboration with Jawa Pos Radar Malang successfully held the School Literacy Competition (L2S) award for elementary and junior high school levels throughout Malang City at the Malang Creative Center (MCC) Malang City, Wednesday (20/11/2024). Overall, ten students from ten schools received awards.
Head of Malang City Education and Culture Office Suwarjana said that L2S was implemented to strengthen students' literacy in the Merdeka Curriculum. "L2S is divided into two categories, namely school literacy and student literacy. This literacy competition is a new competition, so we have to do several stages," said Suwarjana.
The first stage before the competition was held was to hold a literacy workshop, where finally 15 nominees from 15 elementary schools and 15 junior high schools were visited. In total, there were 500 works by elementary and junior high school students that were selected. "Then the 15 nominees who entered were announced, and finally interviews were conducted, both at the elementary and junior high school levels," explained Suwarjana.
Suwarjana also assessed that the level of literacy of students and schools in Malang City is currently good. "However, it must still be improved to be more perfect," said Suwarjana.
Meanwhile, the Expert Staff for Law, Government and Politics of the Malang City Regional Secretariat, Tabrani, representing the Acting Mayor of Malang, welcomed L2S which he said could improve the quality of human resources in Malang City. In addition, it can also be an encouragement for educational institutions to be more creative and continue to innovate in responding to the challenges of the times.
"We express our highest gratitude and appreciation to the Malang City Education and Culture Office for establishing cooperation with Jawa Pos Radar Malang to organize this activity which has been successfully implemented," explained Tabrani.
Tabrani said that activities like this are very important to motivate and encourage the younger generation to be more enthusiastic, creative, achieve, and be able to bring out their potentials so that in the future they will become a generation that is able to answer the challenges of the times and bring about better changes. (cah/yn)
