Ecological Citizenship Through Education and Management

Abstract

The dominance of the Indonesian population in 2018 for the productive age group (aged 15-64) reached 67.6% of 265,000,000 people, with 25.2% adolescents among the productive ages. Adolescence seek new ways to redefine themselves (identity processes) and to explore new ideas and challenges, so it is important to understand how they influence others and how they could have an impact on their families, communities, and the world. This understanding will encourage adolescents to become political actors to take action (WTTA) by influencing society on ecological citizenship, which concerns rights, entitlements, duties, obligations, and responsibilities to ensure that ecological footprints make a sustainable impact. Adolescents need community and social support to develop this ecological citizenship along with their own identity processing and coping with their life struggles. The idea of this paper is to offer food chemistry education as an alternative health and nutrition information so as to facilitate the ability of adolescents to achieve the appropriate development for ecological citizenship. This paper aims to discuss how food chemistry education develops Indonesian adolescents as the future generation who will manage the quality of the environment by becoming ecological citizens through their various life struggles. The discussion will be based on a literature review.