Name: Sri Nuryanti
Country: India

Year: 2016
Volume: Volume-1, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 116-125

Development and modernization recently have impacted greatly on many aspect of the human society. However, youth I think the most affected by those two. In positive way, youth will have many challenging opportunities because of fast development and growing modernization. Many youth who have education advantage, financial support and skill, will easily catch up with the development and modernization. In contrast, youth who have disadvantages education, financial support and less skilled or unskilled, will be excluded from development and modernization benefit.
In many local regions, those youth who doesn't have good education, no skill training and no financial support will tend to be dependent to the assistant of government. In the case of Indonesia, we have Ministry of Youth and Sport who deal with this particular problem. To some extent, many ministries such as Ministry of Education, Ministry of Manpower also have to do something on this Youth problem. Many programs were executed to deal with the youth in this category. So far, we have many training centers and sports centers to be utilized by those who in need. Many low cost training courses also run by private enterprises to fulfill the various job opportunities with least practical skill. In politics, youth also supposed to play significant role especially in term of their participation. However, from political perspective, we still face challenge with their low political participation. Therefore, challenges are still exist. Ministries and private enterprises are trying to fulfill their good work to address the challenge. This paper will be going to examine the socio political and economic impact of development and modernization to the youth, with the example from Indonesia.