Youngsters are main actors in sustainable development: MPR

Jakarta (ANTARA) – People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) deputy speaker Lestari Moerdijat stated that youngsters are the main actors in sustainable development, and the realization of a global vision of an inclusive and equal world becomes their responsibility.

“Youngsters or the younger generation are the main actors in sustainable development. We cannot deny that the global vision of an inclusive and equal world will be the responsibility of the current generation and to be continued by the younger generation,” Moerdijat noted at the Denpasar 12 discussion forum titled “Strategic Synergy for Youth Empowerment in 2023” followed online on Wednesday.

Moerdijat affirmed that to carry out the responsibility, the younger generation needs to tackle several complex challenges, such as the current increasingly worsening geopolitical turmoil, the possibility of a worsening economic situation, changes in political governance, and climate change.

In addition, youth empowerment should be optimized, so that they have the ability to face those various challenges.

Nevertheless, she expressed optimism that the younger generation would realize sustainable development, as they have much energy.

She then reminded all parties that youth empowerment could not be separated from the “corridor” of the nation and state life philosophy. She affirmed that the development of youngsters must be based on the values of the state ideology of Pancasila, the 1945 Constitution, Bhinneka Tunggal Ika (Unity in Diversity), and the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI).

The MPR deputy speaker also pressed for bolstering synergy among various parties in realizing the youth empowerment strategy.

“Synergy for youth empowerment strategies must be increased to not only encourage Indonesian youngsters in certain sectors but more than that also to open up all possibilities as wide as possible, including opening various channels to support youngsters to gain skills and be able to stand tall in all areas of life,” she remarked. 

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