I had a great opportunity to join ON|OFF event, formerly known as Pesta Blogger, which hosted bloggers from nine of the 10 ASEAN member countries today. The ON|OFF event on December 3rd attracted between 1,000 and 1,500 participants, most of whom are bloggers, social media users, tech enthusiasts, celebrities, fashion designers, entrepreneurs, writers and other […]
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Listen to our mp3 podcast. Is it a million dollar question? Is easy or difficult to answer? Has ‘change’ been relegated into a theoretical form in many countries? Some people are very afraid of change, but many want change to really exist rather than just in words or theory. Today we’ve talked to young people
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Writing from Paris/France I honestly appreciate anybody who makes a difference wherever he or she goes. For the whole time I’ve been here, I’ve met the young people who have made small changes with global impact. Today is also the third day of the 7th UNESCO Youth Forum which saw many debates and discussions among
Writing from Paris/France Before I interviewed Edwin Haluoleo Agus, a 24-year-old Indonesian and one of the 2010 youth delegates from Indonesia to the UNESCO Youth Forum, I apologized to him saying that I had no idea of what he had done and had done no single research about him. But there’s something about him that made me
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As I sat through this morning’s first plenary session on the second day, I got so intrigued by the energy in our young speakers such as Ms. Paicy Bazil, young musician and advocate for youth development in Haiti focusing on vulnerable youth and Mr. Andres Villena, young economist, columnist, blogger and activist of the 15M movement from
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Reported by Kounila Keo & Rajneesh Bhadhari I took a chance to ask young people I met at the Youth Forum about why policy makers should listen to the young people. I did a random selection and made sure that I asked young people from different regions. So you can also tell me why they
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Ms. Irina Bokova (director general of UNESCO) and Forest Whitaker (American Actor) encouraged the youth participants to dare to dream. Do we take a break sometimes to ask ourselves, “Am I a peace maker or at least not a violence maker?” At this moment, I’m contemplating about this. A few weeks after I got selected
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Believe me, I didn’t plan this weekend getaway. As soon as a friend of mine offered a free hotel room and a free ride to Kampot province about 4 hours’ drive from Phnom Penh, I knew that would be just right for me. 😛 After staying overnight at Rabbit Island, my friends and I headed
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I asked an Italian photographer two years ago what an Italian mafioso looked like, and whether they had a favourite dress code. He chortled over my ignorance, and said, “Ha, he or she does not look any different from you.” That’s my first joke in Italy. I was in Italy for almost a month, but could learn a
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This is the video production that I struggled to make in 2010. The research phase started in October 2009 till March 2010. Anyway, the video itself took about 3 months to finish. Earlier in this post, I talked about my experience related to the making of the video but I haven’t yet mentioned a debacle