Jakarta –Terpilih sebagai salah satu tuan rumah untuk SSEAYP 2017, Kementerian Pemuda dan Olahraga RI dan SSEAYP International Indonesia Inc. menerima kunjungan Cabinet Office of Japan, Senin (11/9) yang lalu. Dalam Pre-Consultation Visit yang diselenggarakan di Ruang Rapat Graha Kemenpora tersebut, Dr. Alman Hudri selaku Asisten Deputi Peningkatan Kapasitas Pemuda membuka dan menyambut kedatangan perwakilan pemerintah Jepang.

Dalam sambutannya, Alman berharap agar program tahun ini berjalan dengan lancar. “Kami sangat berharap Program Kapal Pemuda ASEAN – Jepang ini berjalan lancar dan saya berharap kualitas kontingen kita tahun ini lebih baik  dari tahun-tahun sebelumnya. Untuk itu, kita harus lebih aktif lagi dalam forum. Selain itu, kita juga harus dapat bertindak sebagai tuan rumah yang baik dengan mengutamakan materi kegiatan, kenyamanan, dan keselamatan peserta selama di Jakarta,” ujarnya.

Sementara itu, Tetsuya Yoshida selaku Deputy Director SSEAYP dari International Youth Exchange Office mengapresiasi persiapan Country Program Indonesia untuk tahun ini. “Program ini telah memasuki tahun ke-44 sejak pertama kali diselenggarakan pada tahun 1974, dan saya sangat antusias sekali menyambut SSEAYP tahun 2017 ini. Partisipasi Indonesia dalam program ini sangat aktif dan kami sangat mengapresiasi hal tersebut. Kami juga sangat menghargai usaha dan kerja keras Pemerintah Indonesia dengan SSEAYP International Indonesia dalam mempersiapkan Country Program ini. Saya ucapkan banyak terima kasih”, tutupnya.

Country Program Indonesia akan dilaksanakan tanggal 24-27 November di Jakarta dengan sejumlah agenda seperti kunjungan kenegaraan, kunjungan institusi, dan homestay bersama keluarga angkat. Turut hadir dalam pertemuan tersebut – Pia Adiprima selaku Presiden SSEAYP International Indonesia (SII) Inc.; Sylvanus Hardiyanto, Deputy President I SII; Arief Rizky Bakhtiar, Deputy President II SII; dan Adinegoro Siswondo, Indonesia National Leader untuk SSEAYP 2017.

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On August 10, 2017, SSEAYP Indonesia organised a seminar titled A Soldier of Peace: Mahatma Gandhi’s Use of Non-Violence, Peace and Harmony and Its Relevance Today. This seminar was held with support from the Ship for World Youth (SWY) Alumni Association – India, Universitas Paramadina, and the Tempo Institute.

Shobhana Radhakrishna, Chief Functionary of the Gandhian Forum for Good Corporate Governance, stated in her lecture that Indonesia should continue with the existing national values and principles to live in peace and harmony within diversity. Meanwhile Ravi Chopra, President of the Ship for World Youth Alumni Association-India dan Centre for Gandhian Vision and Values, highlighted that youth can apply Gandhi values into practice, as contribution to society in their respective countries.

Dr. Shiskha Prabawaningtyas, Head of Paramadina Graduate School of Diplomacy, expressed her gratitude for the lecture that was shared by the two presenters. She wished that this seminar can enhance the people-to-people cooperation between Indonesia and Indonesia. At the end of the seminar, Arief Rizky Bakhtiar, Deputy-President of SSEAYP International Indonesia invited the audiences to participate in Project 30/50: Retype for Brighter Literacy and handed the token to presenters and host of this seminar.

‘A Soldier of Peace’ was a speech delivered by Mahatma Gandhi during a meeting, which was held in the Victoria Hall under the auspices of the International Women’s League for Peace and Freedom and attended by about 2,000 people.

There are few among the 20th century leaders who can measure up to the standards set by Mahatma Gandhi in the practice of non-violence. Mahatma Gandhi proved that moral and ethical behavior is inexorably linked to the sincere understanding and practice of the philosophy of truth, nonviolence and purity of means. Mahatma Gandhi’s thought and principles can guide the people in any part of the world as it has the strength to inspire and bring about change. He is considered a supreme practical leader for change whose life can inspire and guide the modern and aspiring youth in building and leading an ethical and sustainable ecology.

Gandhi envisioned a world that would evolve towards peace and harmony- a world where different religions, cultures and peoples of the world would live together with mutual respect and tolerance, rather than in suspicion and animosity. In a century marked by two world wars, the holocaust and the atomic bomb – when the world was torn apart by hate and intolerance– Gandhi emerged as a powerful antithesis to man’s cruelty and small mindedness. He became the voice of sanity and a beacon of hope for peace minded and tolerant individuals everywhere.

The lecture attempts to provide some principles, ideas and alternatives that can help us in understanding his thoughts and experiments on the use of non-violence, peace and harmony, while also stressing its importance in today’s world.

This seminar is organised by SSEAYP International Indonesia, with support from Paramadina University, Tempo Institute and Ship for World Youth (SWY) Alumni Association – India.

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Are you interested with interaction among people from culturally different background? Do you want to open your opportunities to join intercultural communication program?

Join the Online Lecture with our Secretary-General Arief Rizky Bakhtiar Abe

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