ROLE OF YOUTH (MOVEMENT) IN THE PRESENCE OF

NATION AND ITS EXISTENCE

Muhammad Bachtiar Yusuf

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Department of Metallurgy and Materials, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia

Many things we can take from youth, as primary pivot of creativity, movement, and
improvement, to develop certain community from the smallest part, like family to the biggest
part in nation. Youth as central of creativity, always be dominant in every revolutionary
movement in the world, they have a great curious than other generation, so they can be good
at discussion and effectively take conclusion for problem in around them. But, there will be
no improvement if theres no execution on our idea(s), again, youth have more energy to
implement their own ideas becoming true, this is the crucial part of presenting a change for
injustice, corruption, and unfair. In Indonesias political history, we still remember how a
great leader, Soeharto, who led Indonesia about 32-years-long were collapsed by youth from
every corner of Indonesia. Years were needed to made this revolution, called Reformasi,
theres a long process of discussing the problem until concluding what should they do after,
the execution itself wasnt that easy, need more blast to fire the movement. Indonesian youth
finally made it, they succeed a big agenda for better Indonesia, thats the proof of unbeatable
power of youth. Youth is certainly a biggest asset of nation, because theres hope from
humanity for youth, at least, to take participation in responding every phenomenon in their
life, then furtherly active in advancing or revolutionary movement.