SEA Youth Summit 2023

The activity report of SEA Youth Summit 2023.

Through the year of 2023, AYF has been capturing the recent human rights issues faced by the youth in the region. After successfully conducting research on Myanmar Youth after the Coup, AYF was focusing the advocacy in capturing the development and welfare of Youth. Development in ASEAN has been one of the major focuses that the ASEAN Government tried to imply in their policy, but merely on physical development such as infrastructure and economic growth. Human rights has barely been put on the development list. Aside from human rights, AYF sees that youth rights have not been fulfilled by the government. Many youth in the region are still struggling in pursuing decent access to education, health, employment, environment, and social protection. In response to this, the AYF Secretariat believes that the aspirations of young people on welfare should be considered and incorporated into the debate.

To fill those gaps and as the conjunction of Indonesia as ASEAN Chairmanship 2023, AYF once again will be hosting the annual SEA Youth Summit. This year's program will be held in Jakarta under the theme of “Youth’s Welfare”. This event will provide a meaningful participation of youth and youth-led organizations in local and regional policy-making civic space. Because AYF believes that youth’s voice in addressing various political, social, and economic issues in Southeast Asia is necessary.

The SEA Youth Summit has objective in gathers youth’s ideas, perspective, and action, namely:

1. To propose the comprehensive solution toward contemporary youth issues in the ASEAN region,  young leaders, young activists, policymakers, experts, and stakeholders will have dialogue, collaboration, and innovative solutions to address critical issues related to the welfare and well-being of the youth population in the ASEAN member states.
2. The summit seeks to create a platform where young people can voice their concerns, share experiences, and propose actionable solutions for a brighter future.
3. To gather the support in sounding the solidarity responding to the latest human rights and/or humanitarian crisis

The SEA Youth Summit was conducted offline which highlighted a few activities, such as Grand ASEAN Youth Town Hall (plenary session), art performance, policy discussion, and solidarity action. This event was also a platform to share AYF research primer, both Myanmar primer and Youth Welfare research. This event was a manifestation of the Youth’s Welfare research which captured what Youth faced in terms of accessing welfare in Southeast Asian. SEA Youth Summit provided a platform for youth in voicing their concern in the form of dialogue, among youth, stakeholders, academia, and NGO officials.

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