Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Business Intelligence Vol.5, No.1, April 2019 Available online at: http://e-journal.unair.ac.id/index.php/JISEBI ISSN 2443-2555 (online) 2598-6333 (print) © 2019 The Authors. Published by Universitas Airlangga. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/jisebi.5.1.48-56 Anapedia – An Open Web-based Encyclopedia for Indonesian Children Nur Hayatin * , Rizky Ade Mahendra, Dwi Arif Al-mubarok, Ahmad Dhana Renomi, Elbert Setiadharma, Adhi Bagus Setiawan, Tri Fidriyan Arya, Farid Dadhee, Fadil Ramadhan, Sandy Young, Ahmad Al Ghivani Informatic Engineering, Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang, Indonesia Jl. Raya Tlogomas 246, Malang * noorhayatin@umm.ac.id Article history: Received 5 January 2019 Revised 26 March April 2019 Accepted 5 April 2019 Available online 28 April 2019 Keywords: Anapedia Children Education Encyclopedia Web app Abstract Background: The limited number of web and child applications becomes a challenge especially providing web or education app that can be a source of information referral to help the school task, especially for the needs of children in Indonesia. Objective: This study answers the challenge by designing a special encyclopedia for children called Anapedia, an open web-based encyclopedia for children. Methods: Anapedia designed for the quality of content for education and design for entertainment that is suitable for children's needs by considering the children cognitive abilities. Results: The features are full-color, simple layout, large font sizes, and simple language with illustrated drawing to make it easier. For maintain the quality of the articles, this app involves the educator as a contributor who have better understand the characteristic and need of school-level children. This also provided a search feature based on keywords using information retrieval system with spell checker. Conclusion: The results of testing result with Black Box Method, it can be concluded that the entire system being tested has been functioning properly in accordance with expectations. I. INTRODUCTION Children are age groups that need a great deal of attention in terms of education. From the release of the Ministry of Education and Culture Indonesia in 2017 revealed that the number of school-aged children ranging from kindergarten to senior high school level has more than 49 million students [1]. Based on the research [2] was conducted by the Ministry of Communications and Informatics supported by UNICEF in Digital Citizenship Safety program in 2014, that analyzed online activities and behavior among children and adolescents. That study covers the age group of 10 to 19 years, a large population of 43.5 million children and adolescents, taking samples of 400 respondents aged 10 to 19 years, obtained the highest results of 80% of respondents using the internet to search for data and information, especially for schoolwork. From observations made by researchers noted that the number of web or child apps is still limited, especially applications that support school learning in Indonesia. It is a challenge to be able to provide web or child apps that could be a source of information to support learning activities. According to Untoro, Encyclopedia is a number of writings containing explanations of information from one or all branches of science composed of articles with one topic of discussion on each article that is arranged alphabetically or by category [3]. Based on these definitions, then the encyclopedia is very appropriate if used as a source of data and information for children. One of the popular encyclopedia is Wikipedia † . Wikipedia is an Open Web-based Encyclopedia that has successfully become an Open Content Project that can be written, edited, copied, distributed, and fully maintained by thousands of volunteers or contributors [4]. In America, Wikipedia is a reference for children and adolescents in school work [5]. It is sounds good to Wikipedia that can be a referral center. But not for kids, because Wikipedia is actually targeted to general users not for children. So from the content and design is not suitable for children. Some articles written on Wikipedia pages are, for example, complex and not easy to understand [6]. Mostly use formal delivery languages with high-level terms beyond the reach of children. This will certainly make it difficult for children to understand. Because the perception and knowledge of children is different. They perceive the world differently from adults [7][8]. In * Corresponding author