1. Lingkung Seni Sunda (LSS) Institut Teknologi Bandung, 2. Lingkung Seni Sunda (Lises) Universitas Padjajaran, 3.Keluarga Paduan Angklung (KPA) SMAN 3 Bandung, 4. Keluarga Paduan Angklung (KPA) ITB, 5.Paduan Suara Mahasiswa (PASUMA) Universitas Islam Bandung, 6.Jendela Ide, 7.Karinding Collaborative Projects, 8.Ath-Thawaf, 9.Harry Roesly Foundation, 10.Marching Band Waditra Ganesha ITB, 11.Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia (STSI) Bandung.

2. Plenary Sessions

A talk show plenary sessions will have a theme for each day. Each session will involve a panel of speakers expressing their perspectives and life experiences.

Session I

Toward a Peaceful World Sustainability

- What is a Peaceful World?

- Dialogue Among Civilizations for Peace

- Future of Peace Building Movement

- Youth and Peace Movement

Session II

Toward the Millennium Development Goals

- World Challenges and Current Achievement of MDGs

- World Youth Movement on MDGs

Session III:

Strengthening Youth As the Agent of Change

- Youth Empowerment in the New Millennium

- Youth Entrepreneurship

- Searching for a Common Ground: Strengthening Youth to Build a Global Action

- Creating Youth Alliances as Peace Makers

3. Family Group

Time each day is spent in small groups of around 10 people, where each individual is invited to share his/her life story. It is an opportunity to deepen relationships and build mutual trust amongst participants.

4. Focus Group Discussion

In focus group discussion, participants will discuss and priorities issues of concern from 3 sessions before for renewed and fresh youth concern drawing together the common threads of the conceptual framework expressed in the workshop, City Tour, Live-In Program, social action, and working group discussion.

Participants will meet in sub-regional groups that may be further sub-divided base on geographical location and context, and also base on topic from organizing committee: Youth and Peace; Youth and MDG’s Challenge; Youth as Agent of Change.

The result of focus group discussion will be important for the formulation of the Strategic, Action after program, and Declaration of International Youth Forum.

5. Cultural Night
Each country represented at the conference will be offered an opportunity to share their history, culture and customs. The intention is to build greater understanding of the diversity of this region, and respect for each others traditions and history.

6. Workshop

Workshop will give us time to reflect for issue that we receive in session, and deliberate on selected issues and concern within divers realties of our region, social relevance, responsiveness, and institutional viability. They will be the impetus for all as good global citizen to move forward in fresh ways towards engagements that will transform communities for sustainability and abundant life. Participants will able to choose to participate in two workshop of their choice.

Many of facilitator will be colleague and friends who are delegates themselves with practical experience in related topics to bring forth ideas for our vision of our future work.

List of Worshops:

Workshop (I)

Peace: Multicultural, local wisdom, peace building

Youth’s Role and Movement: The role of youth in public policy, ethic and youth leadership, youth as the agent of change.

Workshop (II)

MDGs: Poverty, Health, HIV-AIDS & Drug Abuse, Education, Environment, Global Partnership, Maternal Health, Gender Equality

This session will be held on June 26, 2008

7. International Youth Day Exhibition

This exhibition will be the further opportunity for sharing and learning together how NGO and Youth Organization have been doing their mission, and contributing towards social transformation.

The exhibition will also serve as resource/ information points of best practices and models that may be replicated. Participants are encourage to reflect on, and learn from these case stories of actions, exchange information and concerns, as well as to explore possibilities for similar actions.

This session will be held on June 26, 2008

8. Exposure Visit

This session will be held on June 27, 2008

9. Live-in Program and Action Projects Program

Live with community 1 (one) night in addressing social issues, youth, the environment, religion, education, etc. will show us the social challenge for youth. The exposure have been carefully selected to bring us closer to the people, their lives, their struggle; to the earth and nature to” hear” their groans amidst the pain and destruction inflicted on them; and to experience the beauty and joy of God’s creation and hope for the future.

This program is an opportunity for people to people dialogue. It can be learning platform into inner issues, the hidden issues impacting the community. In other words, this exposure may taken as an effort to see what has laid open… hence community exposure can be taken to be an effort to see the realities as they are openly laid open for participants to see and experience.

By experiencing live with community 1 (one) night we hope create further interaction, or exchange stories can change attitudes and mindset not only of us, the “guest”, but also the “host” in community.

Live-in and social action place:

1. Pesantren Darul Arqam Muhammadiyah

2. Al-Musaddadiyah School

3. Kel. Sukajaya, Kec. Tarogong Kidul Communities

4. Kel. Sukaratu, Kp. Kaum Rendeng Communities

5. Pesantren Persis & Silk Makers at Rancabogo

6. Kel. Sukaratu Kp. Sompok

7. Handicraft Makers at Sukaregang

8. Traditional Tea Industry at Cilawu

9. Sheep Ranch at Situ Bagendit

10. Handicraft Makers at Samarang

This sessions will be held on June 28-29, 2008

• Raise the fee: A Indonesia Entry visa will cost you about US$ 45 in your local currency equivalent.
• Provide a Passport size photographs of yourself.
• Complete the application form:General requirements for Visit Visa.
- Passport must be valid at least 6 months at the date of entry into Indonesia.

- For the Multiple Entries, the passport must be valid at least 1 year.
- Passport contains at least one blank visa page. Amendment and endorsement pages
- cannot be used for visa purposes.
- Application form (in duplicate) must be completed and signed by the applicant. The
- application form could be downloaded from the website.
- Two recent color photographs (passport size) on picture-quality paper.

All travelers to Indonesia must be in possession of passport valid for at least six months from date of arrival and have proof (tickets) of onward or return passage.

The requirements vary depending on the propose visit to Indonesia. Therefore, applicants should refer to the type of visa that suits the purpose of their visit and add the following :
· Allow four to six weeks before the Consulate receives the decision of the referral

application

from the authorities in Indonesia.
· DO NOT purchase any airline tickets before the visa is granted.
· Visa is issued within five to six working days from receipt of application provided all

documents are in order.
. Yellow fever certificate for African nationals.

Jakarta Arrivals
If you did not obtain a visa before coming to Indonesia, keep an eye out for the visa counters, which are located near the arrival gates. Visitors from 36 nations, which includes the U.S., EU and GCC countries, can get a visa on arrival. The visa needs to be purchased before going through immigration. You do not need to complete any forms or submit photographs to apply for the visa on arrival. The costs are US$10 for a 7-day stay and $25 for a 30-day visa. Do not get in line at immigration until you have your visa.
At the immigration counter, submit your passport with visa and the completed immigration form. Immigration will return the passport with the departure segment of the immigration form inside. Be sure to keep the departure card with your passport, since you will need to submit it when you leave.
Once you’ve passed through immigration, you can collect your bags and proceed through customs. Give your completed customs form to the customs officer, and you’ll be asked to pass your carry-on bags through the scanners.

For more information, guidance and an application form for a visa:

· http://www.kjridubai.ae/visa.htm (AE)

• http://www.embassyofindonesia.org/consular/consularfront.php (USA)
• http://www.indonesia-frankfurt.de/en/(Germany)
• http://www.indonesianembassy.org.nz (New Zealand)
• http://www.indonesianembassy.org.uk/consular_visa.html (UK)

Please click here for information on the address of Indonesian Consular Office and the Foreign Consular Offices in Indonesia

As we have said the only sure way of getting to Bandung is if you raise the money yourselves. Try to make a plan of how to raise effective and in time this money!

1. Make Your Plan. Make a Contact chart or web. First list all the people you, your parents, extended family, friends, schoolteachers and others know who could help you. Put them at the heart of the web. Talk to them and ask them who they know – people in businesses, government, service groups, religious leaders. Remember: people generally give money to people not causes so a personal approach is far more likely to be successful than a letter to someone you have never met. Use the chart to list all the people you have approached along with the date you sent the letter, made the call, had the meeting and the day they replied, or the date when they said to call back. The following is a list of some areas you should explore:

2. Your National Airline. Contact your national airline. Ask to speak to the Head of Public Relations or Corporate Affairs. Show them the letter from the Forum organisers and explain that if they help you, they will get a credit at the Forum. See which is the nearest place they can fly you to through their network. (Many National Airlines do not fly to Jakarta – however if they fly to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur or any Southeast Asia Capital, that’s a great start). If they are not prepared to give you a ticket, ask for the biggest discount they can give you.

3. Your Family. the closest source of money. Involve grandparents, uncles, cousins in your chart and your plan.

4. Local Corporations. Many corporations have community funds to support young people. Talk to the Head of Community/Corporate Affairs and explain what you are doing.

5. Embassies and UN Agencies. In developing countries, many embassies and UN agencies have discretionary funds that they can spend on your participation in events like these. The Ford foundation is also worth approaching.

6. Government Ministries. Try to approach the Ministry of Environment/ Youth Ministry or see if there are any Government scholarship programmes. All Governments were sent letters inviting them to support this event.

7. Individual wealthy people. If you or your family don’t know any – see if you can do some research and find out which people support local charity events. Look at concert programmes, or other charitable events and see who are the local donors. Find out what their interests are, what they support, where they are from and write a careful, enthusiastic letter saying what you want to do.

8. Churches, mosques, synagogues, temples: Talk to them and see if they can get involved in some way. Sometimes they will let you make an appeal to the community.

9. School, college, scout troops. See if they can help. Arrange a car wash, bake sale, sponsored walk or bike ride. Arrange a party or event and charge people. Ask for support from local discos at the university, college professors, holds a university rally. Be inventive!

10. The public campaign: See if you can get to your local newspaper and ask them to do an article about yourself in the local newspaper. This will help, because if you are doing a sponsored walk or whatever, it will get more publicity for you and more people might sponsor you.

11. Working Together. In many cases, you will not be the only participant from your country. Find out who the others are and work together. You will have more success and be able to reach more people. (To find out who else is coming from your country, check out the delegates profiles.)

How are you going to promote yourself?

You should work out a really good letter. Don’t be too stiff and formal – make it really personal, so that people get a sense of who you are, what you have done, what your interests are and why you feel it is important to attend this Forum. Ask a friend to look through the letter and give their honest opinion. Be prepared to write many letters!

Think about your presentation: If someone wants to meet with you to discuss this, plan what you are going to say and how you will come across. Draw on your past achievements – put together a folder of photographs of what you have done.

Fund Raising can be hard and depressing. It’s hard being rejected – but don’t give up!

source: www.scotland2005.com

1. Afghanistan
2. Burma
3. India
4. Indonesia
5. Iran
6. Kenya
7. Kyrgyzstan
8. Malaysia
9. Nepal
10. Nigeria
11. Pakistan
12. Philippines
13. Rwanda
14. Singapore
15. Ukraine

The selection team is working hard on selecting the young fellow and make sure they are inspiring and really has doing things in their community. On the coming days, we will have more lists of participants from around the world that will be joining and coming to IYF 2008.