Denpasar and Surabaya
Ni Luh Eka Purni Astiti was once a shy girl. “I used to feel inferior when working with adults because of my lack of knowledge and experience,” recalled Eka, a public health graduate of Udayana University in Bali. Today, Eka is a woman and very different from her younger self. She is now an eloquent youth activist, working on the front lines of youth sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) advocacy in Indonesia through the “Get Up, Speak Out for Youth Rights!” (GUSO) program. “I gained my self-confidence when I joined the Get Up, Speak Out program and was appointed the youth country coordinator of the GUSO program in 2018,” she said. Komang Sutrisna, chair of Aliansi Satu Visi (One Vision Alliance; ASV), a vast network of 20 civil society organizations in Indonesia, said the majority of adolescents in the country still ha...