Indonesia has a celebrated literacy rate of 98.2 percent, claimed by many as a great success of literacy efforts. And yet in the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment, 70 percent of Indonesian students are reported to have low literacy skills.
It turns out there are different ways of understanding literacy - being able to read words is not automatically correlated to high reading ability.
While the world has been celebrating International Literacy Day since 1967, a divide has been deepening in the world of education.
