Aceh's great youth potential

Aceh's great youth potential

From Kompas

A gathering with youths in Aceh under the Indonesian Youth and Children's Friendship Program for Aceh in April showed local teens' great potential in many fields.

Some of the teenagers excelled in painting, poetry and English, while one student was even a regency champion of the Mathematics Olympiad. They also had a great enthusiasm for transforming Aceh into a better region in the future.

Sadly, the government, especially the regional administration, it seem is less responsive to the local human resource needs in Aceh. It is instead more preoccupied by the province's corruption cases and post-tsunami reconstruction.

The potential of Aceh's youth should remain the focus of government attention because these youths will later rebuild their regions. Meanwhile, the government has drawn up no special schemes for handling youth in Aceh.

MARIA ULFAH Tangerang, Banten