• In 2004, the Indonesian government applied theRegional Autonomy Acts which transferred the powerfrom govern to provinces, towns and regencies inalmost all matters except finance, religious, foreign
relation and military affairs.
• In the act number 32 of 2004 article 1 paragraph 5
mentioned that provinces, towns and regencies havethe right, authority and duty to regulate autonomousand manage their own affairs and interests of local
communities in accordance with the legislation.

• And in verse 6 is further explained that thearea is called the unity of legal communitywho have boundaries and authority toadminister and manage the affairs ofgovernment and public interest at its own
initiative, based on the aspirations of thepeople within the Unitary Republic ofIndonesia.
• The power transfer also covering the libraryrelated matters to 497 town and regency
public libraries.

• The government policy havean impact on thedevelopment of public
libraries in Indonesia.
• The public library progress
depends on the local chief
concern.
• Ten years after the Autonomy
Act, The National Library ofIndonesia (NLI) conducted anation wide Competition tojudge the best public
libraries in terms of libraryservices to the users,
including extension ones.

PUBLIC LIBRARY IN INDONESIA• The duties and functions of Public Library is toserve all levels of society to obtain various
kinds of information and increase knowledge
through reading material.
• Furthermore Public Library has a very
important function, among others, as a placeof lifelong learning, where the public library
has the task of building a learning
environment to the wearer community
members motivated to continue to learn andencouraged to share knowledge.

• Humanizing the publiclibrary and its users is thepurpose of the public librarystandard setting. The needs
for the greater variety of
information deemed as
more advanced and thedevelopment of science andtechnology.
• Currently, the role of the
Public Library is one meansof improving people'sintelligence. It becomes
particularly important.

PUBLIC LIBRARY COMPETITION• The competition aims to see the libraries
development in the province, regency /municipality.
• Since the autonomy policy was imposed, thecondition of the libraries in Indonesia did not
develop as expected. The region that noticed
by the head of a local library, then the librarywill have a good development, but otherwise,
the library suffered a setback.

• The libraries are rated as good is the librarythat meets minimum standards. The minimum
standard of public library established by agovernment agency named National
Standards Institution.
• The National Library of Indenesia is one of thetechnical committee. The elements commitee
consist of bureaucrats, consumers, producers
and experts. The public library standard
setting is one of the Indonesian government's
efforts in developing the public library.

• The competition was intended to motivate thepublic library to grow, and for the National
Library of the Republic of Indonesia is anevaluation to determine the extent of thegrant given used in accordance with theindicators and established procedures.
• Further results of this study is to see how far
the impact of the funds provided in theimprovement of library and its users.

BLIC LIBRARIES
OFILEPUBLIC LIBRARIESPROFILEMETHOD• The target are public libraries
who got block grant i.e.
financial aids from National
Library of Indonesia during thefiscal years 2007-2009 albeit
the existence of an Autonomy
Act.
• The activity starts from thesetting at the national level. The
provincial government
participants in the competition
are districts / cities in theregion.
•

National Provider Organizations• Organization of the national organizers were in Jakarta at theNational Library Agencies. National organizing committee wasestablished by the Decree of the Head of the National Library.
• The Duties of National Organizing Committee:• 1. Develop guidelines for the implementation of a public librarycompetitions•District / City• 2. Establish a National Jury Team;• 3. Compiling the component / instrument competition;• 4. Prepare schedule of competitions;• 5. Conducting assessment of the national level.
•Regional / Provincial Organizations• The provincial level presenting organizations in the province concerned andhosted by Agency / Office Regional Library. Committee organizers regional
level established by the Decree of the Head of Agency / Office Regional
Library.
• Regional Level Task Organizing Committee:• 1. Develop guidelines race organizing a public library district / city based on
guidelines established by the central government.
• 2. Establishing Provincial Jury Team;• 3. Compiling the component / instrument refers to the regional competitionat the national guidelines;• 4. Schedule of activities refers to the regional level competition guidelines
at the national level; the regional• 5. Conducting assessment of

ELECTIONS IN THE NATIONAL
LEVEL

1. Requirements Participants• Participants at the national level is 1 (one) public library district / city
development grantees first phase (the period from 2007 to 2009) wereselected by the organizers of the level of the Regional / Provincial.
• 2. Assessment components include the following aspects:• a. Organization / structure library• b. Facilities and infrastructure• c. Manpower (HR)• d. Collection• e. Service• f. Promotion• g. Cooperation• h. Budget• i. Supporting activities•

C. Elements assessed are as defined by national
standards Public Library.
1. Technical Assessment• a. Committee receives the national level competitions and othersupporting data and photographs of events Public Library District /Municipality concerned, not later than June 15, 2010. Each province
sends winners at the provincial level.
• b. The committee determines the national provincial nomination
winner, the jury determined the top 10;• c. National Jury Team will review directly to the ten nominations;• d. National Jury Team determines the winner / champion I, II, III andHope I, II, III;• e. The winner / winners I, II, III and Hope I, II, III will be invited toJakarta to receive the award on August 4, 2010

2. Assessment Time• The Competition Assessment Time of Public
Library District / City starting June 15 at thenational level to July 15, 2010
• Result
The participans are 100 public libraries comefrom 28 out of 33 provinces. The first threewinners are from province of Central Java,
North Sumatera, and South Kalimantan. The
first winner is from Wonosobo, a small city inCentral Java.

THE FIRST WINNER: WONOSOBO
PUBLIC LIBRARY (CENTRAL JAVA)USERSSTATISTICPUBLIC• (41%)•STUDENT• (33%)

33%

41%

Mahasiswa/Pelajar
Dosen/Guru
Umum
26%

TEACHER/LECTURE• (26%)

USER SERVICESINTERNET SERVICES

THE FIRST WINNER PROFILE
Wonosobo Public Library (Central Java)• This library fullfill the need of reading material. Thestudents come to this library because their school
library doesn’t have enough book for their study.
• Many activities are held in this library such as books
and library exhibition, workshop on many subjects,reading competition, library training etc.
• They also provide the toys and games for thechildren beside books in children reading area.

• The small and compact mobile library isalways ready to reach the people who live faraway from the public library. This library is
not only bring the book but also provide
some reading and cultural program.
• This library is a success thanks to the supportof the regents.

• Another achievement that gained in this district
associated with the library is as follows.
1. 2005: First Winner of Public Library District
Competition / Municipal Provincial and National Level
2. 2006: First Winner of Provincial Competition of Village
Library,
3. 2007: First Winner of Provincial Competition andVillage Library, and Runner first of National Children's
Stories Competition,
4. 2008: First Winner of Provincial Children's Story
Competition, and Winner of Provincial of Village LibraryCompetition,
5. 2009: Second Place of Village Library Provincial
Competition.

THE SECOND WINNER: TEBING TINGGI PUBLIC LIBR(NORTH SUMATERA)USERS SERVICES

THE THIRD WINNER:HULU SUNGAIUTARA (SOUTH KALIMANTAN)
3500
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0000

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

Judul Judul
800

Eks.

900

SMU/SMK
4%
30%

22%

44%

Diploma

S1S2

USERS SERVICES

THE WINNERS PROFILE
While the other next awards were given to publiclibraries situated in Central Sulawesi, West Nusa
Tenggara and South Sulawesi. The common features ofthe winners are• 1. The public libraries are serving also the handicappedpersons
This includes the partially sighted users althoughlack of Braille- printed-books;• 2. The mobile libraries service representing theharmony religious life in the forms of providing mobilelibrary service to mosque libraries on Friday (thecompulsory prayer day for the Moslems) and Sunday tothe church libraries.
•• 3. The public libraries succeeded to secure librarybudgets from the regents and mayors which must beapproved by the local parliament. This is a real
struggle as most of the local parliament members do
not understand what a library is and what its
beneficiary for the people;• 4. The extension of mobile library services.
All the public winners succeeded in extending thelibrary services to the isolated communities in spiteof bad infrastructure such as bad roads,• 5. Reviving the local traditions by conducting story tellingbased on the local folklore• 6. Conducting some civic duties such as recruiting volunteers
to teach house wives on local culinary, religious teaching ,practical skills such as sewing.
• 7. The winning public libraries has succeeded in obtaining
support from corporations in lieu of corporate social
responsibility (CSR). With such various activities, it isappropriate enough those winning public libraries to win theNational Library of Indonesia’s Outstanding Public LibraryAwards 2010.

Conclusion• The NLI conducted every three year nationalcompetition among various type of libraries to win
the national award presented by NLI. In 2010, the NLI
Jury team decided to win the first position toWonosobo municipal public library,the second
winner is Tebing Tinggi municipal public library,North Sumatera and the third one is Hulu Sungai
Utara municipal Public Library, South Kalimantan.
All those winners showed a good attitude towardusers, spread the idea of multi-pluralism and multiculture to the public and humanizing the service

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