The meaning of youth according to Law Number 48 of 2009 concerning youth. Youth are Indonesian citizens who are entering an important period of growth and development aged 16 (sixteen) to 30 (thirty) years. Youth is various things related to the potential, responsibilities, rights, character, capacity, self-actualization and ideals of youth. That in the history of the struggle of the Indonesian nation since the pioneering of the Indonesian national movement, youth have played an active role as spearheads in delivering an independent, united and sovereign Indonesian nation and state. And of course this is solely to fulfill welfare and prosperity for all Indonesian people .
As a reflection of the strength of young people, we must not forget the period in 1908 as the beginning of the founding of the first youth organization, namely Budi Utomo, we must not forget the period in 1928 as the beginning of the youth oath, we must not forget the period in 1945 as the beginning of the gate. only then has a nation dared to proclaim its independence, we have not forgotten the period in 1966 when the Indonesian Student Action Unit (WE) demanded the old order to take responsibility for a series of problems that hit Indonesia when it was defeated, and we have not forgotten the period in 1998 when A large wave of action combined from various elements of youth, society and workers demanded change to a new order which we later came to know as the reform era. The series of stories above have proven that young people should be more active in taking a role in initiating a change.
This is the importance of the active role of youth in national renewal and development. Youth have a very strategic function and role so they need to develop their potential and role through awareness, empowerment and development as part of national development. And to realize national development goals, young people are needed who have noble character, are healthy, tough, intelligent, independent and professional in their behavior. So, as the young generation and also as the golden generation of the nation, we should maintain and continue the independence that our founding fathers worked so hard to achieve. Don't let us misunderstand this independence, which is planted well with the pouring of sweat and tears, because our attitudes and actions are inversely proportional to what the nation's heroes aspired to, so that as young people, they should be the future successors of the nation who should protect Indonesia. This is to be better and not to become backwards and left behind by other nations out there.
So as our reflection, it is appropriate for us to start with the question, has Indonesia become independent? This is a sentence that we repeatedly ask as the younger generation, the legal owners of this country. A sentence that was also mentioned in the book "We are not yet independent" was written by an academic figure and Indonesian economist observer Ichsanuddin Noorsy.
As a generation that was born far from the colonial era, it is time for us to start opening a new page for the nation's future by writing it down with brilliant Indonesian gold ink, where in fact our rule maps in building the nation should not be like a sailing ship that has lost its direction, hit by a storm. I don't know where to go back. Our glory in the nation and state should not stop at the slogan "Our Indonesia is Free" which is actually ironic in the reality that until now Indonesia's independence has only been enjoyed by a group of people or individuals who think they have power over the authority to regulate the system in this country. both the political system, the economic system and the governance system are clearly hypocritical.
This nation certainly needs a central and active role from young people to guard against all forms of problems that hit our country today, a series of problems that continue to emerge such as the practice of KKN (Collusion, Corruption and Nepotism), human rights violations (Human Rights), and the practice of capitalists who take away the rights of indigenous peoples.
Prof. Dr. Sri Edi Swasono in the introduction to the book "We are not yet independent" written by Ichsanuddin Noorsy in his introductory article said that currently there are two main groups of Indonesian elites. The first elite group are nationalists, national independence patriots who want to maintain independence, where they always maintain as firmly as possible " national sovereignty and territorial integrity of Indonesia" meaning national sovereignty and territorial integrity of Indonesia, those who are always sensitive to rejecting the return of new models of colonialism in the form of whatever. The motto of this group is "once free, always free". Meanwhile, the second elite group are those who favor the return of colonialism, quite a few of whom are in government or close to power. The motto of this group is "nationalism is ancient", while patting his chest admiring the new fiction books and absurdly saying " this is the end of the nation state, the world is borderless and there is no more free lunch, meaning this is the end of the country nations, a world without borders and no more free lunches.”
The commemoration of Youth Pledge Day in 2023 should be able to be a reflection for each of us in the young generation of Indonesia in leading us to the spirit of nation building or participating in building a powerful Indonesian nation. Indonesia is a country that was born and raised because of an agreement on diversity in achieving a framework of unity, meaning that the young people who gathered on 27-28 October 1928 were caused by the emergence of awareness of the same unrest, this unrest was then fostered with the enthusiasm to end oppression. and prolonged violence. The birth of the young people who founded the nation initiated the birth of a consensus that embraced all the differences that we know to this day with the words "youth oath" which was agreed to become a common consensus, in order to achieve a common goal: INDEPENDENT INDONESIA FOR ALL GROUPS .
So is it working as expected? This is what must and indeed needs to be a long, continuous discourse, especially in the last quarter of a century leading up to the centenary of Indonesia's Independence. So as the young generation of the Indonesian nation, it is an obligation for all of us to continue to carry out the noble ideals of the nation's founders. The spirit of the patriot spirit must continue to beat in the blue skies of our motherland, the tears of sweat always wet the fertile soil of our motherland. The Indonesian state is a country that was built on the foundation of sacrifice of all human elements from various ethnic, religious and cultural differences.
Therefore, when explaining the fourth principle, namely the principle of social welfare, Bung Karno emphasized; “There will be no poverty in Independent Indonesia. Do we want an independent Indonesia, where capital is rampant, or where all the people are prosperous, where everyone has enough to eat, enough clothes, lives in prosperity, feels on the lap of Mother Earth who provides sufficient food and clothing for her? Which do we choose, brothers?” said Bung Karno with his stunning rhetoric. So as young Indonesians, it is time for us to dream about a Digdaya or Super Power Indonesia whose country is not robbed of its natural resources, whose human resources are not servants or servants in their own country. So the strong young man referred to here is a young man whose enthusiasm never diminishes with the presence of various problematic attacks in this country, because young people who are said to have iron bones, their minds are as sharp as a keris and have ideas as wide as the ocean, they will not be shaken if they are only shocked by materialistic temptations and offers of positions that can kill our critical reasoning as young people. So only then will we be able to move towards a powerful Indonesia.
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