Haaii Sobat Taman Bacaan Pelangi. Salam kenal dari teman-teman di Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB), tentunya tahu kan dimana NTB? Nah yang masih belum tahu, kami akan menceritakan sedikit tentang daerah kami dan taman bacaannya yang kini sudah ada ditempat kami. Untuk teman-teman yang belum tahu NTB dimana, bisa cari di peta yaa? Provinsi yang memiliki pulau dua ini ada di bagian tengah Indonesia dan memiliki keindahan pantai dan alamnya yang gak kalah dari daerah-daerah Indonesia lainnya. Nah, sekarang di NTB sudah ada taman bacaan yang dikelola oleh Kak Mifta dari Parlemen Muda Indonesia untuk NTB bekerjasama dengan taman bacaan pelangi juga, tepatnya ada di dua tempat. Pertama ada di Desa Perigi, Kecamatan Suela, Kabupaten Lombok Timur dan di Sumbawa Besar. Waaah, kalau diceritakan seru banget pertama kali masuk taman bacaan di NTB yang bekerjasama dengan Taman Bacaan Pelangi ini. Sebelumnya di Desa Perigi sudah ada taman bacaan yang didirikan …

The Asia Foundation’s Books for Asia program supports us by holding a campaign called “We Give Books”, in which they partner with Pearson Asia Pacific. Everyone can support this campaign by reading online books on this link: http://www.wegivebooks.org/campaigns/books-for-asia-2012 For 1 book that you read, We Give Books will donate 1 book for Taman Bacaan Pelangi! The more books you read, the more books will be distributed to be enjoyed by the children in Eastern Indonesia! Let’s all contribute to this campaign. 30 seconds of your time will mean a lot for these children: they can have access to more good children’s books!

Seeing is believing Reading is bliss And sharing is even more so “Seeing is believing.” Cliché,  I know, but that’s the most appropriate expression I could think of about my recent visit to The Rainbow Reading Garden in Flores. I have heard about the Garden for the longest time. But never could have I imagined the view, the feeling, and the impact  it has on me until I visited the gardens myself and saw them with my own eyes. It was raining cats and dogs that Saturday morning, when we slowly came to stop after driving for about an hour from Labuan Bajo. We have arrived at Kampung Roe, which hosted one of the 23 Rainbow Reading Gardens (to date). We got off the car and walked swiftly to the porch of a simple pink-ish house. It didn’t register to me what was before me until I properly stepped on …

TEDx Jakarta‘s “Deceptive Truths” that was held on April 1st, 2012 at the Jakarta International School went very well with inspiring speakers such as Connie Bakrie and our Minister of Trade Gita Wirjawan. The performance of 57Kustik was incredibly amazing, too! What’s more exciting for us was to see people bringing books and dropping them off at “Drive Books, Not Cars” box! Woohooo!!! We received 4 boxes full of books – brought by @sydsalesman and @jerryzhng. Big thanks for both of you! Syd even tweeted everyone prior to the D-day that he was willing to pick up the books from everyone who was going to the TEDx Jakarta’s event! So nice of him! Apart from those 4 boxes, the “Drive Books, Not Cars” box was filled with books by the end of the day. Yeaaayyy!!! Thank you, everyone, for your kindness!!  We also would like to thank the TEDx Jakarta’s crew …

Dive Mag Indonesia lets us put a drop box of “Drive Books, Not Cars” at their booth during the Deep Indonesia 2012 at the Jakarta Convention Center from March 29, 2012 to April 1, 2012. They even invited us to be part of their talk-show on Saturday, March 31, 2012! Riyanni Djangkaru, the Editor in Chief of Dive Mag Indo, hosted the 45 mins talk-show. Bp Iman from WWF Indonesia was the first guest speaker, in which he revealed some facts about sharks that most of us didn’t know about! Nila Tanzil, the founder of Taman Bacaan Pelangi was the second guest speaker. She shared interesting information about the reading gardens and how the kids in the islands also learned about conservation from the books in Taman Bacaan Pelangi. On the last day of the Deep Indonesia 2012 exhibition, we were very happy to see that the “Drive Books, Not …