LEARNING BAHASA INDONESIA THROUGH CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AT KAMPUNG PANDAN LEARNING CENTER AND KAMPUNG BAHRU LEARNING CENTER MALAYSIA

Abstract

Going abroad is still the best option for some Indonesians to get a better life. Malaysia ranks the first destination country to work overseas. However, they sometimes use the wrong way to get there. This situation gives several impacts and one of them is to their children born there. Since they are illegal workers, their children are impossible to enroll in Malaysian schools. The Community Learning Center in Malaysia handled by Muhammadiyah Organization in Malaysia (PCIM Malaysia) wants to solve this problem by educating those children. Bahasa Indonesia is considered essential to be taught there for the students are Indonesian and will be back to Indonesia. However, the learning process is monotonous and less interesting due to the lack of learning media. The community service activity done by the team from Universitas Ahmad Dahlan aims to make the learning process in Bahasa Indonesia subject more interesting and attractive by the use of children’s literature. Our team created videos based on some literature for children with not only interesting stories but also moral values. The result shows that the children in Kepong and Kampung Baru Community Learning Center were enthusiastic to learn Bahasa Indonesia with this method. It was seen by their active participation and curiosity in the content of the video during the learning process. Our team expects that this method can be used by the instructors there to create an interesting atmosphere in learning Bahasa Indonesia.