Our challenge is how to empower youth in using the devices.
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Quality youth are the government's capital to realize the Golden Indonesia 2045 vision, according to the Center for Population Research of the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN).

"The quality of youth in this country is improving, one of which can be seen from the literacy rate, which reached 99.47 percent," the center's sociology researcher, Anggi Afriansyah, said during an online discussion here on Monday.

She pointed out that the illiteracy rate was 0.26 percent in 2022, which, she said, was a good achievement, considering that the eradication of illiteracy has been bolstered since the era of president Soekarno.

The first Indonesian president directly went to the field to teach letters to the people, she highlighted. "There was a portrait of Soekarno teaching (letters to the people). In the past, it was very difficult to read, and looking at the current progress, there have been many improvements," she said.

In addition, people who never went to school accounted for 1.02 percent of the total population in 2022, showing that youths are capable of becoming agents of change to realize advanced Indonesia, she added.

"The percentage of young people who have never gone to school is reducing," she said.

Meanwhile, the government is currently facing challenges in creating quality digital talents, she added.

However, the Indonesian government has sufficient capital to grow digital talents, wherein almost all young people in cities and villages would be digitally literate, she said.

Based on data from Statistics Indonesia (BPS), in 2022, 93.47 percent of youth in villages and 97.51 percent of youth in cities were using mobile phones, she pointed out.

"Our challenge is how to empower youth in using the devices," she said.


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