Panel 28 May 2021 (Fri) 9:00am – 10:00am SGT

How Stories With Local Wisdom Turn Into an Unexpected Lifesaver During The New Normal

Debby Lukito, Tyas Widjati // Moderator: Chatarina Trihastuti

Contemporary stories with local wisdom have been written time and again. Literary activism has enabled hundreds of titles containing native stories to be distributed to libraries and schools in remote areas in the region. When Covid - 19 hit last year, the education system in Indonesia was pushed to adapt quickly in order to minimize the loss of learning. In this session, discover how those stories were used as effective teaching materials to save the lives of students, teachers, and parents during the pandemic.

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