Moeldoko: Indonesia Needs Youth Who Have Emotional Prosperity

Presidential Chief of Staff, Dr, Moeldoko, during the Moeldoko Mosque Cup Al Banjari Festival, at the Al Fatimah Bojonegoro Islamic Boarding School, Friday Night (4/8). (Doc. Ist)

BOJONEGORO Presidential Chief of Staff, Dr. Moeldoko, stated that Indonesia needs young people who have emotional maturity.

According to him, such youth are able to respect and appreciate differences, have a future perspective, and be more focused on achieving life goals.

He made this statement when closing the series of activities of the Al Banjari Mosque Cup Moeldoko Festival, at the Al Fatimah Bojonegoro Islamic Boarding School, Friday night, August 5.

"Emotional maturity is an important foundation for the sustainable development of the nation. To realize an advanced and superior Indonesia, this nation needs mature young people who are emotionally mature," he said.

Moeldoko gave an example of how emotional maturity plays an important role in dealing with state problems. Like when Indonesia faced the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the command of President Joko Widodo, the government managed to handle and control COVID19 quickly so that Indonesia could recover and rise.

"The President's emotional maturity can be seen from the gas and brake policies which have finally been able to bring Indonesia faster in controlling COVID19. In addition, emotional maturity in society is able to produce a spirit of mutual cooperation and empathy," he said.

For this reason, continued Moeldoko, the government in formulating human resource development strategies has placed emotional capital or emotional capital in first place. "After that, it is only Intellectual, social, and spiritual capital," he said.

The 2013-2015 TNI Commander also believes that Islamic Boarding Schools are educational institutions that are able to produce generations who have emotional, intellectual, social, and spiritual capital. "Education at Islamic Boarding Schools is complete. I have proven and felt it, even though in the past it was only a bantri kalung (as students who do not live in Islamic boarding schools)," he concluded.