{"id":14742,"date":"2018-07-21T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/07\/21\/en-indonesia-youth-igf-2018-overview\/"},"modified":"2018-07-21T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T02:00:00","slug":"en-indonesia-youth-igf-2018-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/07\/21\/en-indonesia-youth-igf-2018-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Founding of the Indonesia Youth IGF and Its First Youth Session (2018) \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest &#038; 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-indonesia-youth-igf-2018-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Indonesia Youth IGF 2018 \u30b8\u30e3\u30ab\u30eb\u30bf \u2014 Thumbnail\"><\/p>\n<h2>The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-indonesia-youth-igf-2018-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Indonesia Youth IGF 2018 \u30b8\u30e3\u30ab\u30eb\u30bf \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>In November 2018 the Indonesia Youth IGF won recognition from the IGF Global Secretariat, and on 1 November ran a parallel youth session inside the ID-IGF National Dialogue 2018 in Jakarta \u2014 a youth slot within the main dialogue, not a standalone conference.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The session tackled six topics, from the value of youth participation and anti-hoax practice to disaster misinformation, body-shaming as cyberbullying and free expression from a youth perspective; four volunteers then grew the initiative to 20 activities within a year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Its founding insight \u2014 young people are acutely sensitive to internet-governance issues yet lack channels to be heard \u2014 travels well beyond Indonesia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Founding of the Indonesia Youth IGF and Its First Youth Session (2018)<\/strong> draws on official outputs, session records and on-site reporting. In a hurry? The three lines above and the diagrams carry the gist.<\/p>\n<h2>Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-indonesia-youth-igf-2018-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Indonesia Youth IGF 2018 \u30b8\u30e3\u30ab\u30eb\u30bf \u2014 Conference at a glance\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Item<\/th>\n<th>Detail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Official name<\/td>\n<td>Founding of the Indonesia Youth IGF and Its First Youth Session (2018)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>1 November 2018 (a youth session held in parallel within the ID-IGF National Dialogue 2018); the initiative itself was recognised in November 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Jakarta (inside the venue of the ID-IGF National Dialogue 2018, held at the National Library of Indonesia)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>The Indonesia Youth IGF, run by a four-person volunteer organising committee (Astari Yanuarti, Bhredipta Socarana, Ellen Kusuma, Emir Hartato); the host National Dialogue was organised by the ID-IGF itself<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Launch of the initiative, its website youth.igf.id \/ muda.igf.id and social channels, plus a six-topic youth session; activities grew to 20 events between November 2018 and December 2019, documented in the initiative&#39;s only annual report (2018\/19) filed with the UN IGF Secretariat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n<h2>Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-indonesia-youth-igf-2018-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Indonesia Youth IGF 2018 \u30b8\u30e3\u30ab\u30eb\u30bf \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Recognition and Founding \u2014 An &#39;Aggregator&#39; Youth Platform Is Born<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The November 2018 recognition and profile-building (per the official activities report)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The activities report records &#39;the official recognition of Indonesia Youth IGF (Forum) by the Secretariat of IGF Global in November 2018&#39;; the UN register describes it as established in 2018, &#39;an aggregator platform&#39; whose annual-meeting entry reads &#39;multiple events throughout the year&#39; [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>That month the Forum built its website (youth.igf.id \/ muda.igf.id), social channels and leaflets; the whole operation rested on four volunteers \u2014 Astari Yanuarti, Bhredipta Socarana, Ellen Kusuma and Emir Hartato [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The report is frank about its challenges: no legal entity, precarious funding, and &#39;brand duplication by a competing entity&#39; \u2014 the similarly named Youth IGF Indonesia (youthigf.id) \u2014 which led sponsors to ask which body was the recognised one [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. The First Youth Session \u2014 Six Topics Inside the 2018 National Dialogue<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The parallel youth session within the ID-IGF National Dialogue 2018 (Jakarta, 1 November 2018)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Six topics were on the table: the importance of youth involvement in internet governance; do&#39;s and don&#39;ts of combating hoaxes; creating positive content against hoaxes; hoaxes and fake news in natural disasters; body-shaming as cyberbullying; and free speech from a youth perspective [1][5]<\/li>\n<li>Even without pre-event materials the session ran &#39;very interactive&#39; \u2014 on the positive-content topic, participant after participant recounted first-hand experience of surviving natural disasters [1][5]<\/li>\n<li>The report logs the session&#39;s key discovery: young people &#39;are sensitive to issues revolving on internet governance\u2026 They shared hope and wishes, without knowing proper channel to do so&#39; [1][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. From Session to Movement \u2014 A Year of Hoaxes, Cyberbullying and Free Expression<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The Forum&#39;s blog report (January 2019) and the 20 activities of 2018\u201319<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the Forum&#39;s Indonesian-language blog report, committee member Ellen Kusuma distilled the session&#39;s lessons: face disaster hoaxes calmly with local knowledge, use country-code domains such as .id as one credibility signal, and note that website blocking alone has failed to stop hoaxes [5][1][4]<\/li>\n<li>The report also covered body-shaming cyberbullying (citing the death of Amanda Todd) and hate speech that can escalate into persecution, concluding that policymakers &#39;must not ignore&#39; young people&#39;s call for proportionate internet restrictions that still protect free expression [5][1][4]<\/li>\n<li>Within a year the Forum ran 20 activities \u2014 the &#39;Pintar Memilih&#39; election-literacy roadshow across 10 universities with over 1,800 students, privacy trainings, film-screening debates, a youth survey on free expression \u2014 and self-managed two sessions at the 2019 National Dialogue (9 October 2019). Its records stop after a February 2020 survey release [5][1][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. Was there an &#39;Indonesia Youth IGF 2018&#39; conference?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. No standalone conference took place. In November 2018 the initiative was recognised by the IGF Global Secretariat, and on 1 November it ran a parallel youth session inside the ID-IGF National Dialogue 2018 in Jakarta \u2014 that is what 2018 actually consisted of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What did the session discuss?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Six topics: the value of youth participation, anti-hoax practice, disaster misinformation, body-shaming as cyberbullying, positive content creation and free expression from a youth perspective \u2014 with striking first-hand accounts from disaster survivors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What happened next?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Four volunteers grew it to 20 activities in a year, but funding gaps and brand confusion with a same-named rival took their toll; records stop after February 2020 \u2014 a cautionary tale about sustaining youth movements.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Indonesia Youth IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-indonesia-youth-igf-2018-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Indonesia Youth IGF 2018 \u30b8\u30e3\u30ab\u30eb\u30bf \u2014 About Indonesia Youth IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Indonesia Youth IGF is a National or Regional IGF Initiative (NRI), aligning local internet governance discussion with global IGF principles.<\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters to You<\/h2>\n<p>What was discussed here becomes <strong>the baseline for national digital policy, platform rules and AI regulation worldwide within a few years<\/strong>. The principles confirmed at the 2018 meeting are the foundation of the &quot;next rules&quot; for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.<\/p>\n<h2>Sources &amp; References<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/filedepot_download\/7508\/2041\">Indonesia Youth IGF Activities Report, November 2018 \u2013 December 2019\uff08\u56fd\u9023IGF\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40\u63d0\u51fa\u306e\u552f\u4e00\u306e\u5e74\u6b21\u6d3b\u52d5\u5831\u544a\u66f8\u30fbPDF16p\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Indonesia Youth IGF\uff08\u56fd\u9023IGF filedepot\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/youth-initiatives\">Youth Initiatives\uff08Indonesia Youth IGF: established in 2018, aggregator platform\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UN IGF Secretariat (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.id\/2018-national-dialogue\/\">2018 National Dialogue\uff08ID-IGF\u5168\u56fd\u5bfe\u8a712018\u306e\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6: \u30b8\u30e3\u30ab\u30eb\u30bf\u30fb2018\u5e7411\u67081\u65e5\uff09<\/a> \u2014 ID-IGF\uff08\u30a4\u30f3\u30c9\u30cd\u30b7\u30a2IGF\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231208055634\/https:\/\/youth.igf.id\/\">Youth IGF Indonesia \u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff08\u6700\u7d42\u66f4\u65b02020\u5e742\u670811\u65e5\u3067\u6d3b\u52d5\u8a18\u9332\u304c\u9014\u7d76\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Indonesia Youth IGF\uff08youth.igf.id\uff09\u203bWayback\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff082023\u5e7412\u67088\u65e5\u6642\u70b9\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231208055634\/https:\/\/youth.igf.id\/2019\/01\/11\/partisipasi-orang-muda-melawan-hoaks\/\">Partisipasi Orang Muda Melawan Hoaks\uff082018\u5e74\u30e6\u30fc\u30b9\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u306e\u6d3b\u52d5\u5831\u544a\u30fb\u30a4\u30f3\u30c9\u30cd\u30b7\u30a2\u8a9e\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Indonesia Youth IGF\uff08\u30a8\u30ec\u30f3\u30fb\u30af\u30b9\u30de\u57f7\u7b46\u30fb\u516c\u5f0f\u30d6\u30ed\u30b0\uff09\u203bWayback\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Quotes are translated or condensed from the records listed above. Bracketed numbers [n] refer to the source list.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Related links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IGF official (NRI list): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives\">https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Japan IGF: <a href=\"https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/\">https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yuki Nakazawa&#39;s blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/\">https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u66f4\u65b0\u5c65\u6b74<\/h2>\n<p>\u7b2c1\u7a3f\u6295\u7a3f 2026\u5e747\u670815\u65e5 10\u664232\u5206\uff08\u8a18\u4e8b\u30b3\u30f3\u30c6\u30f3\u30c4\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\uff09<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 \u4e2d\u6fa4\u7950\u6a39<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2018 the Indonesia Youth IGF won recognition from the IGF Global Secretariat, and on 1 November ran a parallel youth session ins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[163,161,160,431,162,164],"class_list":["post-14742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-youth-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-indonesiayouthigf2018","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}