Cinta Baca Information

CintaBaca is a non-profit community development organization, focused on empowering neglected communities through literacy. We were first founded and officially registered with the Indonesian governent in 2001. At that time we started with village libraries in private homes in the towns around Bogor. In 2004 we opened our office in Bogor near Pakuan University and this office also served as an English & Indonesian lending library. Today Cintabaca is working in 10 different provinces of Indonesia and has around 166 learning centers nationwide. Each of these locations provide basic library services to the community and also run a variety of non-formal educational programs which are described on the About Our Programs tab of this website. Our national office is located in Bogor and includes a city library with a two room guest house, 15,000 volumne Indonesian & English library, an Internet Cafe (left) and a special childrens room with hundreds of Indonesian children books. Other city libraries or Learning Centers exist in Aceh, Medan, Palembang Bandar Lampung, Bau-Bau and Makassar. These libraries are mostly Indonesian books.