Indonesian President Widodo said he was surprised to learn that the youngest girl in the advisory group of 7 young people he had just appointed was 23 years old.

Joko Widodo on November 21 announced the appointment of seven young people to the group of presidential advisors, in charge of creative ideas for the country's development.

These 7 employees are founders, executives of financial technology companies, alumni with excellent academic achievements, people with disabilities and social movement representatives, aged 23- 36. The youngest is Putri Tanjung, born in 1996, the daughter of Indonesian media "magnate" Chairil Tanjung.

"I was surprised that she was only 23 years old," President Widodo said at the Presidential Palace in Jakrata on November 21, introducing the young advisors.

He also introduced Billy, 31, the Papuan minority, who won a scholarship and earned a master's degree at the University of Oxford, England and Angkie, a deaf person known for the movement supporting the rights of the deaf. . Angkie will be the President's spokesman for social affairs.

The Indonesian President hopes the young advisors can help him come up with new and innovative ideas to achieve social progress, and at the same time become a bridge between him and the young Indonesian as well as the whole world.