Ashoka Indonesia builds and cultivates a community of influential leaders and organizations who believe that everyone can be a changemaker – a person who has the power to create change for the good of all.
Join a Changemaker Movement with Gaharu Bumi Innovation Challenge
We are all part of the cause of climate crisis that is threatening the whole world, but we can also choose to be part of the change.
Ashoka in partnership with Kok Bisa presents the Gaharu Bumi Innovation Challenge, with the support from Ford Foundation and the Ministry of Home Affairs. We invite youth, families and community to register their initiative, and find a greater support to tackle the climate crisis together!
It is important for young generation to have changemaking skills since early age. Now, there are more and more young people who contribute to provide solutions for the problems in their community. ---...
Selected youth from various ethnic groups and religions that are actively involved in creating change for the environment participate in a workshop titled Faith Inspired Changemaking Initiatives (FICI...
There is a rise of young changemakers who care about the environment. Read more about these three young people who created change with their own creativity for a more sustainable planet.
Palaloi’s method is to tap local leaders to plant mangroves and then monitor the health of the trees. He sees his role as enabling community members to envision and complete their own projects, rather...
Ashoka focuses on four strategic priorities to help people understand and adapt to a world of accelerating change, where everyone is called on to be a leader:
Social Entrepreneurship
Ashoka selects world-class social entrepreneurs who are leading the way to an everyone-a-changemaker world.
Ashoka is leading a movement to transform how young people grow up so they thrive in today’s rapidly changing world where everyone must be a changemaker. Changemaking starts with empathy.
How society helps children grow up needs fundamental innovation at least as urgently as in how it produces computers. That is why Ashoka is so important. It finds, helps launch, and then links and leverages the most powerful social innovations and innovators.
Carol Bellamy
Former Executive Director, UNICEF
Bill Drayton emphasized to us [that] empathy is increasingly becoming our primary resource for dealing with the exponential rate of change the world is going through.
Arianna Huffington
Founder, The Huffington Post
We recognize a new era is about to start. In this new era, empathy and changemaking skills, which Ashoka exemplifies, would equip our young people to lead the country.
Kan Suzuki
Professor at Tokyo University and Keio University
No matter a person’s abilities, if he or she helps others – to that degree he or she will be powerful, happy, and long-lived. That’s why Ashoka’s leadership in building a world where everyone is a changemaker, i.e., a giver, makes it so special and powerful.
Timothy P. Shriver
Chairman, the Special Olympics
Forbes knows that the story is change. No one sees that more clearly than Ashoka. It has an extraordinary ability both to envision the big, new patterns and to engineer their emergence.
Our changemaker community consists of 4,000+ Fellows, 250+ change institutions, 100+ Young Changemakers, and 300+ partners across more than 95 countries. Together, we form a strong, diverse and vibrant ecosystem of change agents collaborating and co-leading to positively transform societies and cultures around the world. Learn more about our changemaker community
Ashoka recognizes that it cannot possibly source the world’s leading changemakers on its own. Good nominators ensure that Ashoka receives a constant flow of promising candidates as well as an invaluable perspective on the current innovation in the sector.
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