STATE MINISTRY FOR YOUTH AND SPORT AFFAIRS THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
1.Introduction
The State Ministry for Youth and Sports Affairs was set up by the Indonesia government on October 28, 1978. As the National coordinating body for Youth and Sports Affairs, there are 11 relevant government ministries and more than 40 youth organizations working hand in hand to create policies and programmes on Developing and Empowering youth in preparation for the global community.
2.National Youth and Student Coordinating Bodies:
In Indonesia, there are three major national youth coordinating bodies. These are the Indonesia National Youth council (KNPI), National Organization of Boy Scouts, National Forum of Rural Youth Movement (Namely Karang Taruna), and Has Numerous University Student Association, Youth Brigade for Pioneering Rural Development, National and Local Youth Organizations affiliated to the KNPI. As Indonesia has 27 provinces and more than 300 districts, each of the 39 youth organisations has a branch in each district. The KNIP works with the ASEAN Youth Organisations' at the World Assembly of Youth (WAY).
3.Programs
- Pioneer Youth Award :The office of the State Ministry for Youth and Sports Affairs selects pioneer youth at the national level from fields all over Indonesia. The awardee is presented on the Youth Pledge Day (28 October)
- Training for empowering youth in national fields such as politics, agricultural and social life amongst others:
- Vocational training on agricultural integration
- Communication techniques in attending International forums
- HIV/AIDS and anti drug prevention training
- Seminars concerning Youth Issues
Dialogues: - among domestic youth on the regional and bilateral levels
4.Organizational structures
Organizational Chart of the Deputy for Youth Empowerment
1.Assistant to the Deputy 1 on Youth Outlook Development
2.Assistant to the Deputy 2 on Development of Youth Participation and Appreciation
3.Assistant to the Deputy 3 on Development of Youth Leadership and Caderation
4.Assistant to the Deputy 4 on Development of Youth Organisation
5.Responsibility
Deputy on Youth Empowerment & Assistant to the Minister informally on youth empowerment matters
1.Assistant to the Deputy on the Development of Youth Outlook & Assistant to the Deputy in formulation & coordinating the programs of youth outlook development
2.Assistant to the Deputy on the Development of Youth Participation and Appreciation Assistant the Deputy in formulating and coordinating the programs of the youth participation and appreciation
3.Assistant to the Deputy on the Development of Youth Leadership and Caderation Assistant to the Deputy in formulating and coordinating the programs of the development of youth leadership and caderisation
4.Assistant to the Deputy on the Development of Youth Organisation & Assistant to the Deputy in formatting and coordinating the programmes for the empowerment of youth organisations.
6.Vision Youth Empowerment
Our vision is to develop a progressive, stand alone, religious and competitive generation of youth as a potential modality for the rise of Indonesia in the 21st Century.
7.Mission Youth Empowerment
Our Mission is to see the increase of harmony, conformity and equilibrium between the quality and quantity development of the Youth and Sports Ministry as a potential resource on the environment, which will be an effective pillar to the entire spectrum of national development.
8.Objectives of Youth Empowerment
- Stabilizing the position and enrolment of the Youth in efforts to create a New Indonesian Society of quality that is stand alone, religious and competitive in the 21st Century.
- Motivating the masses and increasing awareness of all concerned, both in the Government and in the region, with reference to the importance of empowering the efforts of the youth and sports arenas as the main purpose in the establishment of the next generation and the future of human development in the new era of the rise of Indonesian people within two decades of the 21st Century.
- Adjusting and providing the ideas, initiatives and efforts by the government and the society on youth and sports empowerment as one of the priorities in human resource development.
9. Goals Youth Empowerment
- Awakening care about and awareness of all concerned, both in the government and in the society, about strategy efforts in the preparation of empowering youth and the important efforts of sports empowerment nationally.
- To conducively influence the youth and sports development and make it compatible to environmental development and other sectors, both in the center and the region.
- To increase the participation of the youth in the development of ideology, politic, economic, social, culture, defense and security, law, science and technology, and the environment.
- To increase the balance and spread of quality and quantity of sports activity that is compatible in the condition, potential, supporting and accommodation well accepted, both in the center and in the region.
10.Tracks Youth Empowerment
Family
School
Society
Society organization
Worksite
Services
Government
Mass Media
11.National Youth Policy
Since 1983, the Ministry for Youth and Sports Affairs determines youth policies, strategies and programmes, as well as coordinates programmes implemented at the national level in partnership with the Indonesian National Youth Council (KNIP). The government fully supports the youth movement to organise young people to participate in national development in the fields of economic, social community development, science and technology, culture, religion and politics.
The Indonesian government initiates projects for empowering the youth through providing them with education as well as training expertise and skills, creating new jobs and opportunities; promoting youth pioneering in rural development sectors, enhancing idealism and patriotism through building the sense of love towards the motherland, inculcating discipline and self-help in early age, broadening the international vision through youth exchange programmes and prevention programmes against drug abuse, etc.
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