The Biggest Challenge of Indonesian Youth Today

The biggest challenge that Indonesian youth face today is integrity to build a future. Does it mean they have no future? No, they have it, but their future is not well managed.  There are a few or even none youth can be described as a model of integrated youth. The changes of era turn youth into more “I don’t care” person. Because of the condition era which make them live in the modernization that slowly killed their Indonesian “real form”. This problem called as the crisis of nationality spirit.

Every day, the youth generation face the severity of society life and the outbreak of materialism. This matter made society attempt to every possible way to pursuit money including corruption. It is one of the ways to spread this sickness toward youth generation. Let’s say that one corruptor affects ten youths, and then these youths affect their lower generation, it happens again and gain. Imagine, what will happen then? How their future will be?

These problems above sourced from the most important aspect in our life, education. Perhaps, some of you have heard quote “Indonesia’s Education: First in Happiness, Second Last in Performance”. It is cool, isn’t it? Well, actually it is just a hyperbola which means that Indonesian education is poor. According to the 2012 PISA (Program for International Student Assessment), Indonesian level of education is ranked at the second, off course from the bottom. For the Indonesian youth, achieving low score at certain subject is not a matter at all. They feel that it is nothing too worried about. Some students even frankly said “getting big or low score is just the same, the school will graduate us at the end”. The schools who fail to pass or graduate students or even graduate students with the low score will be credited as a bad school by the society. So, each school compete to graduate students as many as possible with a high score whether these students are brilliant or not.

At the end, the victim will be the students or youth generation in this case. So, it is not surprise the youth is not actually mentally ready to face real world by themselves. So how the future of country will?

This is what is called as future without integrity in which in order to achieve something, youth generation of Indonesia have to use the only thing that they are capable of, that is M-O-N-E-Y. Tragic, isn’t it? It is just a little story of Indonesian youth at this time.