Book for Indonesia
Frequently Asked Questions
Tell me more about Book For Indonesia.
As you might have gathered from the name itself, Book For Indonesia is a project ran by Indonesian students in the United Kingdom (UK) proposed to help supporting the poor educational sector in Indonesia. Together we collect good quality (new or second hand) books in the UK and ship it to Indonesia to be donated to the under-resourced libraries and the schools in small villages in Indonesia. Besides books, we also receive money donations.
What are you going to do with the money?
We will use all the money donations that we receive to buy cheap, educating, good-quality second-hand books in the UK, and ship it to Indonesia along with other books we collected.
Who is the target audience of this project?
This program is intended to reach everyone who lives in the UK, both Indonesian nationalities and also the local people. We welcome donations from well-meaning individuals and organisations across the UK.
Who are the people behind this project?
Book For Indonesia is one of PPI UK’s (Indonesian Student Association in the UK) official yearly projects. It is run under the ‘Society Service’ division.
What should I do if I want to give donations?
Books: If you want to give book donations, you can just contact the person in charge in your city and they will direct you to the storage place where you can put your books or maybe pick the books up from you.
Aberdeen – Danang [0752 8196 728]
Birmingham – Arief [0753 4784 524]
Glasgow – Rifqi [0770 4107 298]
London – Rosyid [0773 2754 551]
Manchester – Sigit [0781 0382 104]
Newcastle – Jessica [0792 3155 842]
Nottingham – Renaldy [0741 4914 011]
Wales – Veronika [0781 4916 205]
Money: We receive money donations via transfer to our bank account
Name : Indonesian Student Association / PPIUK
A/C number : 03805824
Sort code : 40-05-18
With reference : BOOK <your name>
I don’t live in any of the 7 cities above, what should I do?
Try to contact the closest city from you and discuss the arrangement to collect the books with them.
When is the last chance for me to give donations?
Our project is closed by the end of 17th August 2012, right on Indonesia’s independence day.
So after 17th August 2012, what will happen to the books?
All the books collected in every city will be sent to London to be counted and sorted in the boxes. We will ship the books to Indonesia in October and expected to arrive in November.
Who will follow up with the books once they get to Indonesia?
We have built mutual partnerships with Indonesia Mengajar (an organisation in Indonesia that works by supplying young people to work as a teacher in small villages in Indonesia) to be one of their suppliers for children books and elementary school books and Yayasan Arsari Djojohadikusumo or YAD (an organisation focusing in supporting educational and social sector in Indonesia) to supply Middle and High School books.
Through these two charitable organisations, the books will be spread across the country and sent to the developing small villages; supplied to the under-resourced libraries and used as the teaching materials for the teachers.
What kind of books do you collect?
We basically accept any books that are:
1. Suitable to be read by young children, elementary students, middle school and high school students
2. Could be new or second-hand, as long as it is in good quality
3. Educating and preferably in English
4. Encyclopaedia, picture books, novel, or atlas
Books about agriculture, farming, automotive, information technology, cooking, sewing, and all other handcrafts are preferred.
Why do you collect English books? Isn’t it harder hard for the kids in small villages to understand?
As stated above, besides supplied to the under-resourced local libraries, the books will also be used as the teaching materials for the teachers (especially those who are supplied by Indonesia Mengajar). All these young teachers are using active learning system where they are not limited to a certain curriculum but they have the freedom to use anything as their source of teaching.
This, instead of being an issue, is seen as a positive edge as the kids indirectly learn how to speak English everyday while they learn their subjects. Especially in the small villages where it is impossible to find English books (it is hard to get English books in Indonesia even in the cities!) our English books are considered as a priceless donations.
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