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kaoem@kaoemtelapak.org

October 8, 2026 8:20 AM

Fostering YOUth for a Sustainable Future

YOUth is playing a pivotal role in shaping a future green environment and mitigating the climate crises.

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Climate Champions

Our future generations live in an unprecedented situation like never before.

Globally, YOUth has shares 16% of the global population, and now they are facing tremendous multifaceted challenges, from environmental challenges due to climate changes, social inequality, marginalization, and exclusion. Often they are excluded from the decision-making process which might hamper their future live.

As future stewards, YOUth has a pivotal role in ensuring the sustainability of this planet. Those mentioned challenges must be addressed through the inclusion process and strengthening their capacity in many ways.

Fostering YOUth

As a campaign organization, since 2021, Kaoem Telapak (KT) fosters YOUth through facilitation and capacity building on environment-related issues, know-how documenting evidence, information gathering, policy and campaign advocacy.

Empowering them through those aspects will not only empower them to advocate their future and sustainable lives but also contribute to scaling up their efforts, using their skills to accelerate climate actions and streamlining youth-led initiatives.

Our Approach

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Empowerment

Providing YOUth with resources, skills, confidence, opportunities, and networking to reach their highest potential.

Involvement

Facilitating YOUth actively in the decision-making process, leadership, and essential activities. It provides a space to ensure their voices are heard, valued, and acted upon.

Share-Learning

Knowledge exchange among YOUths and others.  Harnessing their critical thinking and elevating YOUth-led initiatives to benefit their lives, environment, and communities.

Collaboration

Fostering YOUth’s teamwork, triggering innovation, and mutual growth. It enables them to create creative ideas, and collective efforts that can lasting impacts on their communities and beyond.

Resource Corner

This space adopts a digital Learning Management System (LMS) which contains full of free educational material that enables users to elevate and enhance knowledge around our core campaign – forest, plantations, Indigenous people and local communities, livelihood, coastal, and sea. 

It serves as a hub of knowledge and tools, to empowering individuals and communities to learn, grow, and thrive together.

Focus Locations

Delivering ground-based evidence on your finger tip.

Ground-truthed.id (GTID) is a forest monitoring platform, paired with a mobile app, designed to bring transparency, accountability, and justice to Indonesia’s forests. By equipping Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) and civil society monitors with this innovative tools, we aim to document and expose the realities on the ground—empowering IPLCs and civil society to fight illegal logging, deforestation, land grabbing, and environmental injustice.

ⓘ Information Corner:

  • GTID was developed by JMC IT Consultant. For mobile application, it can be accessed and downloaded via the Play Store.
  • Privacy and security are our core concerns, therefore, protection of personal identity is our top priority.
  • We encourage you to read our Manual Book provided on the GTID website to help you get the most out of the apps.

Dare to join the movement!

Imagine a world where YOUth lead change—where they are not just participants but key decision-makers. A world where every young person is empowered to innovate, advocate, and collaborate. Together, we can create inclusive communities, tackle pressing global issues, and build a sustainable future.

Youth

YOUth Pers Room

KAoem MUda in Talang Mamak: Resisting Expansive Extraction by Planting
The Struggles of Small Islands on the Edge of Extractivism Pitfall
Amid the expansive extractive industry that can land on the small islands any time now, KAoem MUda stands among the first people who stand in their way, not with armed intervention but with clarity, voice, and courage to say no.
Sulawesinese Women of Kaoem Muda: Witnessing the Threat of Environmental Destruction in Our Homeland
Sulawesi stands as a pivotal region within Indonesia's natural resource management framework. However, lurking beneath this abundance lies a profound ecological crisis, driven by the unchecked exploitation of natural resources.

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