Hello Data friends! Did you know that every April 23 is celebrated as World Book and Copyright Day?
The aim of World Book and Copyright Day is to encourage the habit of reading for pleasure, especially in children. The reason is, reading can improve academic grades, general knowledge and cultural understanding.
Every year, UNESCO designates one city as World Book Capital. The selected cities are tasked with promoting a reading culture at all levels of society. For 2025, Rio de Janeiro becomes World Book Capital with a focus on social change through literacy and education. Meanwhile, the 2025 theme, βRead Your Wayβ, focuses on the freedom of children and young readers to read according to their own interests, style and pace. This campaign emphasizes that reading is not an obligation, but an enjoyable personal adventure.
According to data from Village Potential results in 2024, there are 50 community reading parks (TBM) spread across 15 sub-districts in Batang Regency. TBM is an institution born from and for the community which has the potential to empower citizens (the general public) to learn and obtain information/knowledge to improve their standard of living.
Apart from that, we can also read books at the Batang Regency Regional Library where there is a collection of almost 60 thousand books available. Let's celebrate book day by reading. Let's turn pages instead of scrolling endlessly.
If you are a friend of Data, what is your favorite book?
