Surakarta (Solo), 2 August 2025 – Kota Kita is hosting Youth City Fora in Solo: Cultivating Youth Voices for The City, aimed at amplifying the voices and ideas of young people in achieving inclusive urban governance through digital approaches. The forum aimed to be a shared space for disseminating the findings of YUP research conducted…
This report presents findings from the first phase of the Co-producing Digital Platforms for Youth Inclusive Urban Governance (YUP) Project, which has explored how young people (aged 10-24) in Surakarta (Solo) and Denpasar in Indonesia, and Bar Elias and El Mina in Lebanon take action in their cities, and the barriers and supportive factors they…
The YUP project is now in an exciting new phase of co-learning, knowledge exchange and the co-production of digital tools. In the coming months this will involve the undertaking of one city-wide forum in each of the case study cities with the participation of young people and city stakeholders (including municipal government actors or those…
By Hasanatun Nisa Thamrin In June Kota Kita conducted the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with participants under 18 years old, both in Solo and Denpasar. In Solo, we involved 12 junior high school students aged 13-15, and in Denpasar, the participants ranged from 14-18 years old. Unlike the FGD with young adults aged 18-24, the…