Library Transformation Based on Social Inclusion is one of the Indonesian National Library flagship programs aimed at improving community welfare through libraries empowerment. This program is the First National Priority Program in the library sector and has been running since 2019. It seeks to revitalize public libraries’ functions based on social inclusion. The tagline of the program is “Literacy For Welfare” which means creating a prosperous society from an economic, social, and educational perspective by empowering public libraries in their environment. This program is expected to strengthen public libraries’ role in improving the quality of Indonesia’s human resources by increasing literacy skills which in turn will be useful for increasing community creativity and reducing poverty in access to information. The concept of this program is that of a public library that embraces differences, is participatory, openly friendly, practices equality, removes barriers, provides a comfortable setting, and respects each other.

This program has the following objectives:

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