23th March, 2015
Here is my speech as Indonesia Youth Leader in Ship of South East Asian and Japanese Youth Program 2014. I presented in National Youth Centre (NYC) Tokyo, Japan, in front of Price and Princess of Japan also 330 other participant from Asean and Japan country. It was a remarkable achievement for me. The speech got huge applause from the audients. It may be a good example for any of you who honored to be a YL for your contingent on SSEAYP. please enjoy reading.
(Greetings)
To start our SSEAYP journey with the Country Program in Japan and participating in Youth Leaders Summit, makes us feel honored and more than welcomed in every activities we followed.
Sailing into its 41st year of a unique program to continue spreading the spirit of friendship and mutual understanding among Japan and South East Asian Country, give us an excellent platform to broaden our point of view toward international issues, and cultivate our international cooperation.
On YLS we learn about other cultures and appreciate it. The beauty of diversity in one harmony of ASEAN. All participants perform each culture from each country. This program bring 11 cultures which shown by almost 330 SSEAYP participant. Cultural performance is a very magnificent event.
After returning from cultural performance, we are served by the various different set of exhibition which is done by all country. Every country brought its own character and identity. Along the exhibition preparation, we are helped by the local youth from Japan. To our Japanese local youths we met in YLS, I hope that our friendship along the event will bring us into a good cooperation in the future and relationship will never be end. Let us still keep in touch and be side by side to grow better and greater.
The discussion session in YLS is very beneficial for all of us. As a prospective leader, discussing many potential issues and ideas made us think more on giving and helping each other through social contributions. It may start from having a good education for every people while also support by having healthy generation. This kind of visionaries will built a better future for all of us. It will make the society strong by having creativity in managing enterprise, able to use media and information wisely which later on able to create a convenience of international relationship between countries.
Friendship formed through this program will go beyond borders as I am pleased to note that we supported each other when we found complexity in the activities we faced.
As we embark on this journey with our new friends, we come into a higher appreciation toward the rich diversity of our cultures, languages, and also discover many commons grounds that we have shared in values, aspirations and ideas.
Without being conceited, I would like to say that joining this program is a way to help, to safeguard, and strengthen the harmony and cooperation in our region. We believe that be together is always better than separated. We are one for all and all for one, as human for other human.
Please pray for us, the SSEAYP 2014, that we can sail this program with successful rewarding experiencesahead, and pleasant enjoyable stories to be brought home.
Thank you.
