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    Bayan Api Dance from Rokan Hilir 💃 Bayan Api Dance is a Riau creation that tells of an area called Bagan Siapi-Api. Bagan Siapi-Api is part of the archipelago that is considered important, because the area close to the Malacca Strait has always been the center of international trade activities. Geographically, Bagan Siapi-Api is located at the mouth of the Rokan River, precisely on the northern coast of Rokan Hilir Regency. As a meeting place for people of various ethnicities, Bagan Siapi-Api has now become a pluralistic area with diverse ethnicities. However, this diversity can be maintained with mutual respect and respect for differences.  The diversity of the Bagan Siapi-Api community inspired the birth of a creative dance called the bayan api dance. This creative dance that adopts the movements in the Rokan Hilir sapin dance combines several cultural elements in the area, namely Chinese, Javanese and Malay culture. The influence of these three cultures can ...

Digital literacy In the past, people gave the term literacy "literacy", but this term is now more widespread and developing in line with the demands of the technology that accompany it. In the past, people were called illiterate if they had not yet reached the reading and writing stage. But now the term "millennial illiteracy" is a condition of technological illiteracy (clueless) or minus digital literacy. Literacy or 'literature' in Latin terms, 'letter' in English describes literacy as the basis of human knowledge that continues to grow. While digital comes from the word 'digitus', which in Greek means fingers. An important element of digital literacy relates to what abilities must be mastered in the use of information and communication technology.   According to Steve Wheeler (2012) in his article entitled Digital Literacies For Engagement In Emerging Online Cultures, he identifies nine important elements in the world of digital literacy s...