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The Jakarta Model United Nations (Jakarta MUN) 2018 series of events was closed at the National Library Building, Sunday, August 12, 2018 right on International Youth Day. To enliven the International Youth Day, Jakarta MUN 2018 organized an interactive talk-show session with the theme "How Youth Can Increase the World's Human Potential by Eradicating Gender Bias and Discrimination for a Better Generation ". The theme leads to one of the issues discussed by the United Nations contained in the 5th Sustainable Development Goals, namely "Ensure women's full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision, with political, economic and public life". In her closing speech, Acting Director UNIC Eshila Maravanyika asked young people to make every opportunity a means of learning.

“Make every opportunity a learning experience. Make every opportunity that you heard that city neighbors next to you that you don't know you build the network. You're going to build the network that is going to make world a better place. The UN is there to make the world better place. And if we work with young people we know the world will be the best place. We always praise for our confident on you,” Eshila Maravanyika said.

Eshilla hoped with the end of the entire Jakarta MUN 2018 program, the awareness of the participants on the importance of cooperation as one of the important elements in realizing sustainable development goals can increase. Jakarta Model United Nations 2018 carries the theme "Advancing Sustainable Development Through Diplomacy". Through this theme it is expected that the participants will be close to international issues including the issue of sustainable development. Jakarta MUN 2018 is the eighth held by Indonesian Students Association for International Studies (ISAFIS) in collaboration with United Nations Information Center (UNIC) which was attended by 120 participants from various high schools and universities in Indonesia. (VOI / Rezha/DP)