Ratu Ayu Isyana Bagoes Oka, deputy minister of population and family development and deputy head of BKKBN, urged regional governments to create more spaces where young people can direct their energy into positive activities. She delivered the message at a World Population Day commemoration held with the United Nations Population Fund at the Garuda Child-Friendly Public Space in East Jakarta on July 30, 2026.
At the event, Isyana said the Ministry of Population and Family Development and BKKBN have introduced several programs aimed at supporting adolescents and addressing mental health challenges. She cited the Youth Information and Counseling Center, or PIK Remaja, as a program to address mental health issues. She also pointed to the Population-Aware Schools program and the Family Development for Adolescents program, which provides education for families with teenage children. ANTARA News Agency
To illustrate the kind of local action she wants, Isyana highlighted an initiative in East Jakarta to respond to youth brawls by providing a dedicated boxing facility. Referring to remarks by the East Jakarta mayor, she said a boxing ring was established so young people could channel their energy there, and added that some had even gone on to achieve success through boxing. She also said the ministry continues to communicate and coordinate with regional leaders.
Isyana said the ministry and BKKBN are also working with various stakeholders to formulate the Population Development Roadmap, or PJPK. She described the roadmap as a foundation for developing high-quality human resources in support of Indonesia's Golden Indonesia 2045 vision.
According to Isyana, the Population Development Roadmap has already been shared with provincial, regency, and municipal governments. She said it includes indicators that local governments can use to identify their demographic challenges and then determine suitable action plans to address those issues. Taken together, her remarks linked youth-oriented public spaces, family and school-based support programs, and demographic planning as areas where regional governments can act with central-government coordination.
Its relevance to Indonesia’s innovation economy is not the boxing facility itself. It is whether local governments use the roadmap, youth-support programmes and skills-development spaces as human-capital infrastructure for the 2045 agenda. The next evidence to watch is whether regions publish budgets, programme targets or workforce-readiness indicators tied to those facilities.
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