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To be Here, to be Further: Making Local Community Matter | Imam Kurniawan | TEDxYouth@SPH


hi everyone yeah like I’m different
action in here like I want to make a
plan about a Japanese action more higher
than Singapore English something like
that you guys I was originally from
Japan so my mom from yogyakarta and my
father from Umbara WA and yeah this is
this is me so I want to share my
experience but it’s not inspirational
story like motivator or something like
that it’s just the way of young physical
disability who who have study in in
United State and who has a contribute in
local comedy so my full-time job is work
in a village with with my beloved team
of doctoral studies so I want to share
how to dr. H – with pleasure and this is
it to be here to be first making local
community matters or village has a soul
like when the people gather and meet
talk about the global issues talk about
local issue but like we have
interconnected as human being they’re
under 22 April for the young leaders
from Southeast Asia meet in the United
States to discuss a very important topic
about local community and how to empower
potential resources in our local
community and this is me is like with a
black skin and I want to share about my
my journey so
as a result like I don’t know like I’m
I’m one day only in on the states like I
was born as a physical disability so I
live in symbol wearing in affiliates
particular methods from vendor Lampoon
so it’s like lack of access information
like of Education and and poverty and
this is my family as a very simple my
family my father is a local Imam in
local max also working in justice court
and my mom works at home I have one
brother and my family has been taught me
if spins of me like you disabled
physical disability but you have to make
social impact and my family has been
much span of money sterile their home
sell a car sale farmer for surgery my
hand but like nothing resistance at all
this is my first time I tell you put my
experience and please build me this is
my work this is my work right
I work full-time in local community in
the village in Yogyakarta so local
communities for me is home when the
people nurture the values and build the
better social construction and the
community has interconnected as a human
being to m2 its empower its order this
is when I start so 2012 I’ve moved to
yogyakarta and I think I feel living in
Yogyakarta six years and when
I live moved – yogyakarta I study and
directly do it in multiple University
and do the voluntary activities like I
prefer do voluntary activity then my my
my society in university but yeah I
think it’s good
like I teach in the uncle sorry so don’t
call sorry shelter after disaster the
place has been destroyed by eruption in
Merapi and the government rebuild the
settlement for local people and I teach
like all psychosocial because maybe my
big green is psychology and I this in
private school so even even though I’m
physical disability I still remember
when my mum said to me you have to
empower is order you have you have to
make a social impact in in your local
community so it’s it’s a hard part
because like when I studied in primary
school or in my childhood like I have no
friend I have no friend like let’s
imagine the only one physical disability
live in the village and and I want to
make a friend but my social environment
like bully and ignore me but I have a
dream at games yes all right I want I
want to make a change in my local
community and primary schools I like
I’ve tried to come my friend house from
from one house to another house every
day and and my friend said why you do
that like you look so weird but I said
if I believe it enough come to your
house meet your parents play Nintendo
play Monopoly interaction with your
father
do you still bully and ignore me and
they my friend like okay
I will be your friend and like the other
village in Indonesia after finish school
in primary school we play football and
the evening or when I joined was calling
and in my village
I must go to local monks and read the
article and not only read the Elgar and
but learn about organization and finally
I met them like I would – thank you for
for them like since 2030 I will work
with them we run social movement to
educate children in local community in
Yogyakarta like we invite the people who
have passion about education and
teaching and we teach about prevention
will teach about the skill and also like
I’m I’m the youngest neck I have no
skill like I have no see I just have
this feel like taking a photo or editing
video but it’s okay like in every week I
have to teach all children and finally I
have a friend like this young physical
disability and we share the same story
but like I have dream and he has a dream
something like that and and this is my
home when in doctor like I work in here
and because I work in here I go to
United State last year and we work in
mutual assistance so like as you know
Indonesian has profound philosophy of
cotton rayon controller good origin
means Lucan and Indonesian and enormous
inventory of highly specific in
cooperation in work and personal
relation like
something that I did like my friends
asked me how you make money like you you
have a passion about work in local
community you didn’t get a nice a job
like work in NGO or work in companies
optical I did like I believed it when I
work in local community and empower the
finish
do people like a natural natural natural
and Gratz plane and yeah I’m here I’m
enough and like my my moment is thick
not not if something I did and like it’s
my my passion but I prefer to live in
finish then live in urban area and we
know like the Indonesians have a
superpower about local local people and
when local people meet and work together
and implement our philosophy and go to
Rio and this is to 2news like how how
interconnected as human being in local
local community not only when the center
has a cure but when people in local
community is mapping the problem and
make a solution is like solve the
problem in the village like there is a
complete complex social problem in the
village but the people that’s not
stressful how to how to solve the
problem but the people find a best way I
I think I think the best the best
solution or social innovation has
created in village and in the village
like a lot of young people and we know
Indonesia have a lot of
still five million young people in
Indonesia and when you invest people in
social capital is a good way it’s a
great way like invest in politician
invest in social workers like me and
infants in environmentally so the power
the power of young people who can who
can make better social construction who
can make solve the problem by the
innovation like like start up like an
NGO like a nonprofit organization like
when the globally there are more than
115 and as as we know when I studied in
in the United State I met a lot of
people similar with me like they from
the village and they empower to create
urban farming and and I think like okay
not only in Indonesia have local
community and rural village but to the
other country have a lot and yeah they
have a super-powerful super-powerful of
for infesting faithful and yeah this is
my job
like I interview young physical
disability and stakeholder in the
village and how and I deliver about my
work to stay colder in the global and if
you want to invest people you have to
visit Indonesia or if you want to buy
something you have to visit in Indonesia
like yeah when I work in Phyllis I just
came and I asked about how do you make
money and when the interview ended she
gave me a lot of pineapples like okay
yeah this is this is like I
purpose to live in to finish like I have
a lot free food I have a lot like free
free snack when when you hungry or when
you starving to just go to the village
and the people yeah this is what this is
food for you and yeah under 22 February
young we are young leaders in Indonesia
in US Embassy and I didn’t expect I will
go to United State like yeah I’m the one
and only physical disability but I just
confused like how how I come to to study
in the United States the United States
so I think there are a lot younger
people in Indonesia who has contribute
like more more contributing me more
impactful than me but I don’t know like
how I come and I study in Arizona last
year with six young people we have a
different background we have the very
different culture but we have a similar
mission we want to empower our local
community after studying and back to
Indonesia I met a family like a place
that now I call home in in Arizona I
said what since teaching in special
education and I said about how to
nurture a different disability like I’m
physical disability and there is a deaf
yeah under 22 August we are the nine
leaders in in Yogyakarta a nonprofit
organization so actually the idea from
Daniel he has founded Duke the entities
and when I was studying in Arizona I did
I did online conversation with tunnel
and he explained about the the IDN okay
let’s make the drill and when I go back
to yoga we have a discuss and I beg to
Yogyakarta with a lot of knowledge how
to empower local community how to create
a social program have to create a social
impact something I did and we Rev
discuss like I said we we don’t have
office or a squatter so we’ll discuss in
co-working space or coffee shop not not
another coffee shop is like fancy but
coffee shop is I think less than one
dollar for one glass coefficient yeah we
we have a different background but again
I don’t know like it’s a good waste or
gotten like I always place into a new
group a new home a new theme and I’m one
day only physical disability but I’m
very grateful work with them so like I
want to sell and spend how we struggle
with a nonprofit organization fine like
fine a funding or grain fine opportunity
like fine networking a great social
program like we have to move from
another co-working space and in order
covers in space light actually we don’t
have a office but we are struggling to
rent the office and the story is this
like we want to build the community in
Yogyakarta toward sustainable
development like we know this
sustainable development is global issues
and we understand the human live in the
earth is like International in G or like
a pyramid
the highest the highest top is the
reciprocal international NGO government
something like that but if sustainable
development wants to implement on 2030
we have to deliver the substantial about
sustainable development in local
community or in the village like a lot
of people in in the village does not
understand about what is it is
sustainable development goal so we we
combine we combine a local knowledge and
we endorse local knowledge towards
sustainable development like there’s
correlation or related local knowledge
or local wisdom with social with
sustainable development goals like in
Japanese philosophy I use I speak in
Japanese like a llama can do be seen in
Japanese accent like makan Dean decay
and the philosophy has been implement
and numbers a number 12
about responsible consumption yeah this
is this is the power of people in the
village and and this is it and after
last year we are striving to get a
funding or to get a networking and
finally
we get funding and we get a grin
last year I went to Manila to attend the
summit and the summit provide a lot of
clean or funding and okay I take it I
take it to to create a social program
and last year I meet with some professor
in Arizona and I explained about the
program and they want to invest in
France us invest us like they have but
the program is disease for primary
education so we we have currently we
have 23 local communities and maybe you
can visit a doctor Institute or energy
you can see the our member and the our
member have a different category like
our member focus on gender equality
environmentalist education health and
well-being sustainable cities and
community peace and partnership and also
the edges focus on partnership or the
goals like well we have 23 local
communities and we want to deliver the
substantial suitable Development Goals
through our program like exchange
learning and selling the ideas so the
the program started on April like
environment or twice twice activity with
with a different different focus the
first the first activity focus on
quality of education and sustainability
sustainable community and city and the
local communities in in the rural
village this to the children live in the
rural village and they saw the social
program has a participant like I think –
200 – 200 200
in 215 has contribute to our program and
the program will be continuing until
next year until Esther and we want to
create recommendation for our local
government and this is young people work
we work in credit perspective we were
living in the village but we we have
impactful and we have a nice progress
and yeah this is the visitor like we we
teach the children as voluntary but the
local people give us a lot of food and a
lot of dream when when I ask how much do
you spend the money is okay like we are
were so happy when you come here and
teach the children and I want to my son
now about global issue know about access
information now about like how to plan
mangrove and we will teach about
mangrove and we we explain about how to
function mangrove for for environmental
and like this is this is a place like I
call the place is our office is a small
simple house but yeah is enough to pull
off pull off my team and to change this
focus on partnership or be closed
through the globe do research
perspective as we know like currently we
have 23 and we want to did and we want
to from locally to globally like yeah
this is my dream
all I want to change local community and
I met my team and I’ve now first is in
my full-time job my see my full time job
in Yogyakarta like I have like Experian
but I don’t know if it’s a good or not
like a lot my friend or social support
like why you when you ignore while you
ignore for a better job like actually
yeah I have to work in international NGO
in here in Yogyakarta like January but
it not like I believe in our initiative
can make in fact cool for the next
future so like my friend
you stupid you you ignore a million a
million salary like you can you can
invest your money to buy a car to build
your home but no I have a solvent I live
in the village I have solve it when I
have interconnected with the people not
like I have to teach about the global
issue like no no no so the local people
inspire me teach me how to philosophy
like philosopher Giovanni philosophy of
the local people like we believe the
higher power is the higher power does
not come from individual but reside in
partnership collaboration and shared
responsibility and we want to
collaborate to be more sustainable world
to live and I want to
to explain a little little information
like this is this is our initiative I
don’t know this is like is our 1 1 year
5 2005 man but let let me continue our
work like we are not we are not
politician
we are not famous person like we only
know how to work in local comedy a social worker and 3 magazine
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