The Jakarta Globe:
This month marked the end of McKinsey & Company’s latest wave of Young Leaders for Indonesia. YLI is an annual series of intensive workshops for high-performing individuals with the aspiration of ‘Unleashing Indonesia,’ of helping the nation to achieve its economic and human potential. Since its kick-off in 2008, the foundation has been reaching out to the country’s most talented youth and breeding them not only to become better leaders but also to inspire more people in the process.
Almost every person I talked to wanted to ‘unleash Indonesia’ — in academics’ language this translates as “better coordination between scholars and policy-makers,” whereas businessmen would naturally interpret the phrase as “generating more jobs and income.” It seems that any profession can take specific roles in achieving the vision, although it is not as easy to understand from where exactly you should begin. Most of us end up being too confused and pessimistic. Hence opt for cursing the situation.