Academic: Bobby Nasution Brings Medan To Be A Creative City

Medan Mayor Bobby Nasution shows his official car mural when receiving Slank personnel in Medan, Sunday (24/7/2022). ANTARA/HO-Medan City Government.

MEDAN - University of Medan Area academic Mahiyar Diani stated that Medan City, North Sumatra, under the leadership of Mayor Bobby Nasution, has now become a creative city.

"Bobby often involves the role of Medan's young people, and provides space for creative activists to channel their work and creativity," Mahiyar said in Medan as reported by ANTARA, Monday, August 22.

The action of creative activists in the city of Medan, he continued, was shown when the mayor of Medan allowed his official car mural in a series of working meetings for the Indonesian City Government Association (Apeksi) Commissariat Region 1 in Medan, Thursday (30/6).

Not only in Medan City, but Bobby Nasution also invited creative activists to paint the walls of the Bodybuilding Stadium, Labuhan Batu Regency, North Sumatra, during the 2022 Bonas Cup.

Now, there are many murals created by creative young people in the city of Medan, coloring the walls of the streets and the walls of buildings in the capital city of North Sumatra Province.

The Mayor of Medan is considered to be able to revive, awaken and bring significant changes to the availability of creative space for young people in the city of Medan.

"We want these creative activities to boost the economy of Medan City and provide benefits to the community," he said.

Mahiyar said that by providing space for creative young people to be creative and innovate, it was appropriate, because nowadays young people are in a different era of development.

The development of technology and information today is dominated by the internet, thus requiring the younger generation in various parts of the world to be influenced by the development of internet digitization

"So that the younger generation is not trapped and trapped in the world of internet digitization, the government must provide space for the younger generation to be creative and innovate to produce positive works," he said.

For example, he said, the Toba Harmony music concert which is planned to be held in October 2022, then the Medan City Hall Fashion Festival event.

According to him, events like this were held specifically to invite the younger generation in the city of Medan to come and be actively involved in these activities.

"So this young generation can be proud of themselves, and their culture. They are able to become the next creative generation, and spread their wings in the national arena, and even go international," said Mahiyar.