Web-Based Literacy Information Systems as Strategies to Improve Society Reading Interest

Abstract

Indonesia's reading culture is at the lowest level when compared to ASEAN countries based on a survey released by UNESCO. The reading ability of 9-14 years children in Indonesia ranks 40th out of 40 countries studied by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). Efforts to improve society reading interest need to be grown since childhood. One way that the government has taken to grown children's reading interest is through the Gerakan Literasi Sekolah (GLS). However, there are no facilities that can facilitate these activities. This study is to improve society reading interest since junior high school age by facilitating their work through a web-based literacy information system. System developed with Unified Modeling Language (UML) architecture diagrams, implemented using the PHP MySQL web programming language. The results of this study are 82.91% of respondents agree this system can provides convenience and it can facilitate works and upload user's book summary.