From Communities, For Communities.

Truth Seeds empowers youth to discover information challenges, design local solutions, and grow together.

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Map of Indonesia showing where the twelve featured communities are, each marked by a coloured pin.
Filter the map by information problem

Each pin is a seed — the information problem that community found.

  • Health Misinformation
  • AI-Generated Content
  • Investment & Online Scam
  • Local Rumors
  • Discovering
  • Planted
  • Bloomed
  • Waiting for a Youth Ambassador

Why the usual fixes aren't working

+70%

False news is 70% more likely to be reshared and travels six times faster.

Source: Vosoughi, Roy & Aral — Science, 2018

Rp476.6 billion

30,124 scam reports

Lost to scams in three months.

Source: OJK / Indonesia Anti-Scam Centre, 2025

38%

Only 38 of every 100 outcomes actually worked.

This is the finding Truth Seeds is built on.

Source: d'Haenens et al. — Media and Communication, 2024

So the question isn't how to hand people better information. It's how a community learns to protect itself when the landscape keeps changing.

About Us

Truth Seeds is a community-driven Media and Information Literacy (MIL) ecosystem that redefines how digital literacy is cultivated. Rather than treating MIL as a standardized body of knowledge delivered uniformly from the outside, Truth Seeds empowers communities to grow their own literacy practices from within. At its core is a diagnose-before-solution approach that uncovers each community's unique challenges before designing relevant interventions. This process is facilitated by trained Youth MIL Ambassadors and supported by accessible physical and digital tools, enabling every community to build a context-specific, sustainable, and locally owned MIL ecosystem.

Community Driven

Youth Led

Local Solutions, Global Impact

Open & Collaborative

The Journey of Growth

Discover the Seeds

Listen to the community and find its real information problems.

Prepare the Soil

Build critical-thinking habits through reflection, not lecture.

Plant the Seeds

Co-design a solution that fits this place.

Nurture the Growth

Run it, document what happens, and get mentor feedback.

Bloom & Spread

Publish the finished work as a Playbook others can adapt.

Success Stories

Komunitas Mahasiswa Pontianak

University · Kalimantan Barat

Reading the Sender First

Local Rumors

What didn't work

Our checklist had six steps. Nobody used more than two, so we cut it to two.

Adapted by 7 communities
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SMA Harapan Bangsa

School · Sulawesi Selatan

Teaching Grandparents to Spot a Scam

Investment & Online Scam

What didn't work

Students taught their parents easily. Their grandparents wouldn't take lessons from a teenager, and we never solved that.

Adapted by 5 communities
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Sanggar Belajar Sumba

Learning centre · Nusa Tenggara Barat

Naming the Rumor Out Loud

Local Rumors

What didn't work

Saying a rumor out loud to discuss it made some people believe it more. We had to stop repeating the exact words.

Adapted by 4 communities
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