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Indonesian President Joko Widodo emphasized that 92 years ago Youth Pledge event brought positive energy to unite the nation.

"The Youth Pledge brings a positive energy that unites competition and differences, it doesn't have to make us forget about common problems, common interests, and common goals," said President Joko Widodo who was seen on the YouTube page of the Presidential Secretariat, Wednesday.

President Jokowi delivered this virtually in his remarks at the commemoration of the 92nd Youth Pledge Day of the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

"We can solve everything by unifying and working together," added the President.
According to President Jokowi, being united and working together is the key to achieving an advanced Indonesia.

"We must continue to make efforts to maintain unity, becoming Indonesia is not enough to be just part of Indonesia's territory. We must work together to care for Indonesianism," said the President.

Indonesianism, according to the President, must always be maintained in a spirit of solidarity and a sense of brotherhood.

"We must help each other in a spirit of solidarity. There is no Java, no Sumatra, no Sulawesi, no Papua, there are fellow countrymen," said the President.

"We must continue to strive for unity by respecting differences, maintaining tolerance, and continuing to maintain the integrity and sovereignty of the Republic of Indonesia."

In commemoration of the Youth Pledge, the President also invited the spirit of the youth oath to continue.

"The spirit of the Youth Pledge must continue to burn," he said.

In the big flow of globalization that often occurs, said the President, there is fierce competition between countries and also between individuals.

"It is not uncommon for the competition to end in efforts to defeat each other, destroy each other. This becomes negative energy that harms all of us," said the President.

92 years ago, the Youth Pledge brought youth from all over the archipelago to set aside differences in ethnicity, religion, and regional language to swear to become one Indonesia, one homeland, one nation, and one language, so now unity is also needed to build an Indonesia that is fair and equitable.

"To realize one Indonesia, we must also work together to build Indonesia fairly and equitably by building from the periphery, from villages, from the frontier islands to the border," said the President.

The government has also built infrastructures that facilitate interregional, inter-island connectivity to unite Indonesia, including the 30th TVRI station in West Papua.

The station will serve the people of Papua, provide a variety of quality information so that Papuans get the same access to information as people in other parts of Indonesia. (Antaranews)