Young people activities in the responsibility of environmental sustainability: Indonesian perspective

Abstract

Sustainability is the process of maintaining change in a balanced fashion, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations. So it is necessary to think of a way so that everyone is able to maintain environmental sustainability, so that there is no exploitation of natural resources that will affect the next generation. The young generation who will be the success or needs to be involved in the sustainability of this environment. Based on this, it is necessary to conduct a study to find out the extent of the responsibility of the younger generation towards environmental sustainability in their country. Primary data collection is done by means of interviews and field observations on students on selected campuses in Indonesia. While secondary data collection is done by literary studies. Specifically the study will focus on the following objectives: to examine the level of responsiveness of millennial and post-millennial generation on social, environmental and economic sustainability; and to identify the opportunities and challenges in cultivating responsiveness on sustainability among millennial and post-millennial generations.