Special Lecture: "Democracy in Their Hands: How Youths Seize the Lead in the Digital Era" on Friday, September 20th, 2024.

2024.09.11

Special Lecture "Democracy in Their Hands: How Youths Seize the Lead in the Digital Era" by Dr. Anies Baswedan will be held on Friday, September 20th, 2024.

Dr. Anies Baswedan became the youngest university rector in Indonesia’s history (Paramadina University) at the age of 37. He then served as Minister of Education and Culture for about two years from 2014 to 2016 in the current Joko Widodo administration and served as Govenor of Jakarta for five years from 2017 to 2022. He also ran as one of the leading candidates in the presidential election held in February this year but lost with the second highest vote share. However, he still attracts attention as one of Indonesia’s leading leaders.

We will invite Dr. Anies Baswedan, who is currently visiting Japan, to Sophia University, where he studied in a summer program as a university student, to talk about the present and future of political participation among young people who will lead Indonesia’s next generation.


Moderated by Dr. Akiko Horiba (Executive Director, MRA Foundation）
Welcome speech by Dr. Shintaro Fukutake (Prof.Fuculty of Global Studies/ IAAMES)