A Scientific Model through Socio-economic Approach to Decrease Illiterates in Banten Province

摘要

Literacy program in Indonesia is known as functional literacy program aiming at improving the quality and standard of living of citizens and community learning. Related to the number of people learning about literacy program, there are 156. 477 people in the total population of 11.83 million in Banten province or 1.32% are still illiterate. To implement the literacy program, it was needed a model in an effort to decrease illiteracy. The model created in this study employed scientific model through socio-economic approach. The results indicated that there was an increasing participation and quality of community literacy. Through the scientific model, the learners' literacy quality increased up to 62%, while through the socio-economic approach, the amount of community participation increased up to 78%. Based on the improvement, it was suggested that scientific model might possibly be used to decrease illiteracy in Banten province.