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Jakarta Moral Movement targets city's youth
Look Around Indonesia, an organization focusing on social and youth issues, will hold a series of events on morality knowledge-sharing, entitled the Jakarta Moral Movement, in an endeavor to make Jakarta nicer and fresher
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ook Around Indonesia, an organization focusing on social and youth issues, will hold a series of events on morality knowledge-sharing, entitled the Jakarta Moral Movement, in an endeavor to make Jakarta nicer and fresher.
Program officer for the movement Nadia Ismi Prameswary told a press conference on Tuesday that the events, with the tagline 'Have You Been Nice Today?', comprised forum activities, festivals and knowledge-sharing on the value of virtue to the greater community.
'We want more young people to make a major change in the way they interact by doing small nice things like smiling and saying 'thank you',' she said.
Nadia said the events were targeting people aged between 16 and 21 years old as participants.
'We hope they will implement the knowledge they get from the forum with other people,' she said.
Nadia said the committee had currently selected 30 people to participate in seminars on morality and behavioral issues, public-speaking training and creativity classes in the forum slated for June 29 in Kemang, South Jakarta.
'The 30 participants, who will be called Jakarta's Young Moral Ambassadors, will later share their knowledge with grassroots communities around Jakarta,' she said.
She added that the ambassadors would be committed to carrying out social services in the communities for six months.
'We're also preparing a festival where the public can take part in talk shows, bazaars and art performances,' she said, adding that the event would take place on July 2 at Usmar Ismail Hall in South Jakarta.
The organization has also conducted road shows in a number of high schools in Jakarta, a parade on Jakarta's Car Free Day and a fund-raising campaign for the movement.
Founder of Look Around Indonesia Sharimah Umayah said her organization attempted to show that young people actually had ideas, talents and the will to act to make Jakarta a better place.
'We want more youths to be aware about doing nice things for others,' she said, adding that they could do it by starting to be aware of their surroundings.
Sharimah said her organization, currently manned by around 300 volunteers, had carried out a series of charity and social work programs.
'The Jakarta Moral Movement is our big project this year,' she said.
Sharimah said she hoped young people would engage in more positive activities.
'By learning the knowledge of morality, we hope they will not indulge in improper activities like fighting or being apathetic toward their surroundings,' she said.
The National Commission on Child Protection (Komnas PA), an organization focusing on children's rights, reported that at least 2,000 cases of juvenile crimes occurred in Indonesia last year.
