Kampoeng Ilmu Could be Better Than This

It was a long holiday. My husband and I didn’t have any plan to go somewhere fun, because we had some writing jobs. So we just researched, wrote, at home. Unfortunately, you can’t always do the research online. Thus, we also had to hunt some necessary books. We went to several big bookstores in Surabaya: Gramedia, Toga Mas, Rumah Buku, and Uranus, with no result. Well, I guessed it’s time to go to Kampoeng Ilmu! When I lived in Bandung, I used to hunt for the old books in Palasari, Dewi Sartika or Cicadas. We can get the old books with the good price. Here in Surabaya, such heaven lies at Semarang Street, in Kampoeng Ilmu area. There, people sell popular books, comics, textbooks, dictionaries, novels, magazines, new and second hand, in some cheap ranges. That’s why we call it Kampoeng Ilmu, literary means kampong of knowledge. Kampoeng Ilmu was established in 2008 to localize the book sellers along Semarang Street, Surabaya. It lays on 6,000 square meters area. When we arrived in not so morning (at 10am I think), Kampoeng Ilmu was really quiet. Many bookstores were still closed. Of course, it was Lebaran! A long holiday for Indonesian [...]