Youth congress strives to become 'leadpreneur'
Deisha Tamar
15 May 2011
The Jakarta Post
World student organization held Asean Youth Congress in Bina Nusantara (Binus) University in Jakarta aimed at empowering the youth. The Asean Youth Congress (AYC) that ran from April 25 to 27 was the first ever held by AIESEC, a global, non-political NGO dubbed the world’s largest student-run organization focusing on youth leadership and management development. Although AIESEC is contracted from French’s Association Internationale des Etudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, the organization expands wider than just economic and commercial sciences.With the vision of peace and fulfillment of humankind’s potential, AIESEC was established in 1948 and now present in more than 107 countries with more than 50,000 members. In Indonesia, AIESEC has been around since 1984 and is ranked in the top 10 countries according to Ika Rahmayutari, the president of AIESEC Indonesia. Ika said there were six universities already joined AIESEC; including University of Indonesia, Andalas University in West Sumatra and Diponegoro University in Central Java.“The memberships would soon be expanding to Binus University, Gadjah Mada University and Bogor Institute of Agriculture,” said Ika.
