Indonesia is a country rich in many things. Both in terms of natural resources, history, culture, and others. As the younger generation, one day we will carry on the tasks of our predecessors to make Indonesia cooler in the future. A former Minister of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia, Gita Wiryawan, gave several factors that we need to have so that Indonesia becomes a cooler country. What are they? Here's an explanation from Gita Wiryawan

Conscience
This conscience can be developed in various contexts or in various fields that we are involved in. There are real examples that we can take, one of which was when Indonesia became independent. At that time as the pioneer of independence was Soekarno. However, Soekarno at that time was also supported, supported, assisted by Muhammad Hatta. The figure who is known as the Father of Indonesian Cooperatives puts forward what is called the spirit of gotong royong. Muhammad Hatta said that Indonesia's heart is full of shared feelings. That in Indonesia, the sense of togetherness can be seen, the sense of collectivism can be seen in every village through community service, social gathering, mutual cooperation. This can be taken meaning in order to cultivate conscience. Conscience can enter into various long-term issues, the goal is that in the future we can reap the results that have been planted. Not only to the current generation, but to future generations who will carry on the tasks of their predecessors.

Breadth
We as humans are gifted with reason and extraordinary brain memory capacity. Although human nature is the place to forget, but that is not the reason for us to limit ourselves not to broaden our horizons. If we try to add insight, intuition will be sharper. If our intuition is sharper we will produce a wisdom. And the more we have intuition or wisdom, the more we can overcome systemic or long-term risks.
We can follow the example of Rudy Hartono, a badminton legend in the country. Rudy Hartono before focusing on playing badminton, he had experienced playing soccer, volleyball, and other sports. And finally he is steady playing badminton and has won various international titles. The story illustrates that Rudy Hartono had various experiences in other sports before specializing as professional badminton.
This is in the context of how a person can become an early specialist or a late specialist. Late specialization is actually good, early specialization is not necessarily good. The late specialization had actually gone through refinement and experienced many dimensions and things, thus reaching the point where one wanted to specialize after knowing a lot about the previously skipped dimensions. This relates to our goal to breadth. As a component in order to welcome a cooler future.

Articulation
The question is how can Indonesia mass-produce narrators who can compete with other countries such as India, China, and others? Can. We need to learn to be storytellers or narrators who dare to narrate about Indonesia abroad, not only in our own pond or around Indonesia. For example, we are involved as presenters at international seminars organized by institutions from outside Indonesia. We can learn from Indonesian figures who are known to the world, such as: Soekarno, B.J. Habibie, to Susi Pudjiastuti.
This is actually a provision that we must realize in order to narrate that Indonesia is cool. If we can be a good storyteller or narrator. We can use it for social business purposes, for private businesses, even for public/geo-political businesses. That's a review from Gita Wiryawan about what the next generation of young people need so that not only Indonesia, not only Southeast Asia, not only Asia Pacific, but the world can become cooler in the future.

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