“With youth activism, it feels like you make a lot of progress and then some hurdles come along. It can feel tough sometimes, but I have a strong community of young people to tackle these challenges”, writes Anna Bella Sabilah, a GPE youth leader from Indonesia.
She continues: “To raise awareness and popularize the idea that tuition-free school is a basic need for all Indonesian children, we’ve put on a discussion series on how education policies work, advocacy mechanisms, promoting a gender and socially inclusive framework as well as an intersectional analysis on education issues. The most recent update on our advocacy efforts shows we still have a long way to go, but there’s progress.”