“Power + Time = The World
Children have no power but have plenty of time.
Adults have plenty of power but do not have plenty of time.
But youth, we have both right in our hands.”
It has been 2015 and The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which were agreed in 2000 will come to its end.
Have you ever given any attention to the boards in Sudirman? Don’t you know that some of them contain MDGs issue? As a developing country, Indonesia has been working the goals that world’s countries agreed to achieve in 2015. It is seen by the fact that Indonesia has a good achievement progress in eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and also combating tuberculosis disease. But, Though Indonesia has shown some good progress on some goals, it still has so many more challenges to be faced in the future. There are still goals that have not been achieved well and need to be done, such as maternal mortality rate issue, food security & nutrition issue, and also HIV/AIDS issue.
With so many goals that have not been done by the end of the MDGs,
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what do we do next?
Not only Indonesia, the question had been asked by the world and finally had been answered by the decision made in June 2012, at the Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development, as the world agreed to create new Sustainable Development Goals.
But then, as the sustainable development goals is made upon the MDGs, how would the world maintain the progress that has been achieved during MDGs?
Sustainable
/səˈstānəb(ə)l/
adjective
Able to be maintained at a certain rate or level
Source: oxforddictionaries.com
To sustain the progress that has been achieved during MDGs, we need subject who has understood the past, wanting a better life in the future, and also have power and time like no other generation.
And the answer is the youth.
As the youth are vast in population and also connected by the high technology nowadays, each of them has big potential inside. The only problem is they rarely have a chance to develop the potential they have in order to help the world. With such potential each, have you ever wondered how would the world be like if each of them maximized their own potentials?
We all know that all the goals proposed by the Open Working Group (OWG) are needed to be achieved well as they are related from one to each other. But unfortunately, there is only a few of them which mention the youth. Besides, if only the youth are concerned specifically, they may give great impact to the goal and the issue which might rise in the future.
As ones who live in developing country that plays a big role in achieving the development goals, Indonesian youth has a big responsibility to create a better life in the future. For a transformation that leaves no one behind, indonesian youth have to unite all people equally by genders, races, and even locations because all of them, including ones who live far away in Papua, have the same right to achieve a better life.
It is prominent that Indonesia is working hard for its development goals. There are so many new programs that pursue youth to be active towards world issue. With all chances they have, all Indonesian youth have to be involved in implementing the Post-2015 Development Agenda by always giving their attentions to what is happening in the world, doing their best in their education, sharing their knowledge and education to ones who lack by doing social activities, developing their creativity and innovations, and also preparing themselves for their employment in the future since they have to inherit the knowledge and the world that they have maintained for their descendant.
To study the failures made in the past and to present a better achievement in the future, the world needs youth to be involved in implementing the Post-2015 Development Agenda. They need to participate actively as a subject, the agent of change, instead of an object.
Source:
-http://www.undp.org/content/dam/indonesia/docs/MDG/Let%20Speak%20Out%20for%20MDGs%20-%20ID.pdf
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-aselabar.wordpress.com
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I’m participating in a blog competition held by UN Indonesia. i wish my writing could be a reminder for all of us that we need to learn mistakes we made in the past 15 years MDGs and do our best for the SDGs ahead. 15 years isn’t a very long time for the world to change. The world is big and one person can’t conquer it himself. The world needs the youth for a better change.
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Nice diinn👍👍👍 very interesting👏👏
So enlighten me! Thanks!
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