The Ambassador to Inter-Religious Youth Forum

from Indonesia to Germany

Angga Yudhiyansyah, a young activist born in Kediri, East Java 29 years ago, seems a shy guy. Wearing a rather thick glasses and having sharp gaze, he shows that he has a firm will, seriousness, and warmth in every topic of discussion especially related with advocacy effort for the marginalized, and persecuted ones in three cities covering Yogyakarta, Cilacap and Solo.

Graduated from CRCS(Center for Religious and Cross Cultural Studies), Gadjah Mada University in 2012, Angga has got enough knowledge and understanding about divine issues and many God interpretations, based on the variety of religions and beliefs. Though he is a religious Muslim, he is also eager to know how other religions make communication with God through their own languages.

Joining SMI (Social Movement Institute) as volunteer for social advocacy, Angga tries to map what actually have been done by the government, religious leaders, and people to solve problems trigered by the variety of religion denomination.

Having such a track record, Angga and two other candidates namely Firly Annisa (House of Sinema) and Lidia Nofiani (LSIP) were nominated as the candidates promoted by Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta to the IYF Committee in Germany, that finally the Committee appointed Angga as the ambassador to join in facilitator team of IYF. Further, he has some mandates to:

• share their experiences and knowledge about the MDGs and help develop themes and structure of the Interreligious Youth Forum 2015.
• act as possible facilitators, discussion leaders or presenters during the IYF 2015.
• spread the word about IYF 2015 in their community, city and/or countries, and help assemble a team of 4-5 representatives to attend the 2015 conference.
• inspire and motivate people in their community to get involved in take action to advance the MDGs.
• stay connected with one another, and IYF planning team, throughout the year through IYF website and online discussion groups.

At last, Stube HEMAT congratulates and wishes a good luck for Angga Yudhiyansyah. All of us in Indonesia hope that his departure to Germany on July 2014 to prepare the forum in 2015 may bring positive effects for humanity. God Bless! ***