Sunday (26/3) was the second webinar round of Fridays For Future Indonesia where we are running a webinar series entitled “Youth on Climate Indonesia”. And, as we commemorated the Water Day in March as well as we support the UN Water Conference that was held on 22-25 March in United Nations HQ Office in New York therefore we lifted up this topic, particularly the topic that related to SDG 6 about Clean Water and Sanitation. Indeed, clean water and sanitation has been a long-term problem in Indonesia as the resources of clean water is typically hard to be accessed, particularly in Eastern part of Indonesia. They were faced water scarcity since the past over years where they have to walk away for about 2 KM from their house to get access to clean water. 

This is such an irony remembering that Indonesia is one of the countries who has a huge access to fresh water. And now, Indonesia faces another problem that lead Indonesia to have a high risk in accessing fresh water, and that is fesces that contaminated almost 70% of clean water resources across the nation. It’s ironic and it shows that Indonesia didn’t have a well-managed water regulation system where it’s supposed to be well-established from a long time ago. And, with the support from The United States Embassy in Jakarta and YSEALI, we were encouraged people in Indonesia to be more aware of the dangers that could came around us. In this webinar, we invited UNICEF Indonesia as a United Nations entity who recently campaigned a campaign about this issue. And this campaign named #DihantuiTai which you can just access the campaign through the UNICEF Indonesia website. 

Also, we invited WateryNations Founder, Arfina Maulina where her NGOs’ was focusely on environmantal issues, especially about the water or SDG 6. Her organisation was campaigning about many issues related to SDG 6 and now focusing on “Lerak” as the material to replace detergent which we know that detergent is the primary material to wash our clothes. In this webinar, Arfina (WateryNation) and Cyntya (UNICEF Indonesia) were discussing a lot of things related to topic. Arfina stated that “As a youth, we could do collaboration with the related stakeholders in order to make the water system management more well-managed”, on the other hand, Cyntya stated that “Even though we are not part of the government body, but at least we, as a people could campaign about the risk we face and advocate to the government about our worry.” 

The webinar was ran dynamically and there is a bunch of question appear from the participants and most of them were questioning about “What we can do as a youth to strengthen and amplify this issue to the society”. And, as both of speakers said that the only way we could do are campaigning and advocating this issues. But however, we sure that we could do better than this and keep optimist with the chance that we already had to speak freely and do contribute to help the government in tackling issues, especially the environmental issues.