Writing a narrative essay

Youth vote key in Indonesia election

In Indonesia, there will be a president election on July 9^th, 2014. For youth people, this is their first time to vote for a new president. Their votes determine whether Indonesia would be better or not. Some of them are taking a challenge to take part in campaign to make sure that their votes are heard. The others think that it does not matter whether they would vote or not if there is only 1 person, it would not make a change. So, this is their opportunity to vote for a new president and make a change in a “New Indonesia”.

There was a girl named Pingkan. She and her friends collaborated to make a programme named Ayo Vote. At one mall in Jakarta, they made an event to present to young adults about the election itself. They showed all the parties that took part in the election. This event was a big challenge which encouraged young people to engage. Although they are interested such as 17 and 18 years old, they would engage the election. This is their first time. Most of them are excited but they are afraid as well because that would be matter if they vote the wrong president.

The last president of Indonesia is Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. He already took 2 terms or he already led Indonesia for 10 years. Some critics said that the old political parties didn’t energize Indonesia’s young people. They seemed many differences in the old generation and the new one. In the old one, many people took part in campaign for every party. They were active in every election. But the new one make the young people turn to be a passive people. They just search the information from the social media without take part in or engage to be a part of every party. Of course it makes a change in the way they communicate with other people. By this Ayo Vote programme, it would make the young people know about the election itself because this programme provided a lot of information about the parties.

The candidates for a new president are Joko Widodo who is elected for Jakarta’s government. The other one is Prabowo Subianto. He is a person with a modern vision who is making a change for his image by joining a formal general vision mission for adopting democratic activist.

Pingkan and her friends hope that this programme would make a change in every young people’s mind about this election.

Source:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkU-ZwOjjlg
p.s. this essay only for practicing writing.