JAKARTA - As a leader who uses social media to communicate with the community, Ganjar Pranowo encourages millennials and Generation Z to optimize social media correctly and as well as possible.

This was conveyed by the 2024 presidential candidate (readpres) from the PDI-P, when he was a resource person at the Millennial Talkshow With Gen Z and Millennials Influencers, Celebgram, TikTokers at Hey Beach Alam Sutera, North Serpong District, South Tangerang City.

Raising the theme 'Positive And Negative Impacts of Social Media Use among Millennials', the event was attended by 400 millennials and Generation Z, including influencers, celebrities and TikTokers who have a large following on social media.

"Some of them are his business and then he can inspire others. So the creative process of Generation Z young people, the millennial generation needs a forum so that they can develop," said Ganjar after the event on Sunday, May 28.

Ganjar said that social media for millennials and Generation Z today can be processed into various purposes. However, of the many benefits, Ganjar encourages the creation of positive things that can be used as material to inspire each other.

For example, using social media as a business field that can provide benefits. This is because many people's behavior today relies on social media to seek necessities, including online shopping.

Ganjar said the importance of mentoring and providing forums for young people in channeling their talents and skills, so that millennials and Generation Z are not rigid and can make use of social media according to the times.

"It's good to walk, now what we haven't taken yet is assistance. Because the creative process of these children is what makes this country able to show tens of millions, hundreds of millions of talents emerging from great individuals," said Ganjar.

One of the talk show participants named Heru, revealed his experience of getting a lot of lessons from Ganjar. Especially during the question and answer session, Heru had the opportunity to become one of the pens directly to Ganjar.

He considered that Ganjar was one of the leaders who had a young, simple, not stiff and flexible spirit so that many people could accept it, including young people.

"If I see Mr. Ganjar, he is indeed a creative figure, even though he is far above millennials, he can place himself and can be accepted anywhere. The figure of a very inspiring leader," said Heru.

The man, who has 164 thousand followers and 2.8 million likes on his TikTok account, uses his account with his daily work content as an online motorcycle taxi. Heru also often sells live on TikTok to increase income.

From the knowledge taught by Ganjar regarding the use of social media, Heru also admitted that he was more enthusiastic in filling in more creative and more positive content so that more followers and buyers were interested.

"With Pak Ganjar, this gives more spirit to friends to be able to continue next step, not only as content creators, but can continue to grow. Maybe they can become leaders, they can become entrepreneurs. Anyway, Mr. Ganjar is cool," said Heru.


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