Politics Truly Belongs to the Youth

Kompas/Totok Wijayanto

The office of financial technology (fintech) company Koinworks in the Tanah Abang area of West Jakarta (16/3). Koinworks is an application that facilitates loans between people through financial technology. The financing model is aimed at helping start-ups.

Practical politics that tends to highlight power struggles in the past several years has disappointed the youth. They then develop their own political movement to ensure that their voices are heard, and their dreams realized.

A Kompas Research and Development (Litbang Kompas) survey held among college students in the second half of December 2017 showed that many youths perceived politics as something negative. Once they were given the word “politics,” many relate the word to power, corruption and lies. Only 18 percent correlates the words “politics” to “democracy.”