Environment, youth, and policy-making discussion: A conversation analysis on Think Policy’s YouTube channel

This study will focus on three videos on YouTube which mainly discuss the climate crisis and environment published by Think Policy, an organization that addresses public policy-making in Indonesia. It employs Conversation Analysis to explore how the conversation talks from YouTube videos can show context and explain the importance of the environment, sustainability, and policy-making related to them. The analysis centres around the chunks of conversations that convey: 1) the critical views of environmental activists towards public policy and conditions regarding climate crisis, environment, and sustainability in Indonesia; 2) the educational purpose which raises the youngsters’ awareness towards environmental issues; 3) the agreement and disagreement of environmental activities regarding climate crisis issue in general. The result shows that through its YouTube talks and building upon the lack of public discussion centring around environmental issues in Indonesia, Think Policy can be seen as a social agent organization that functions to spread awareness of environmental issues to a wider range of audiences through environmental and policy-making discussion regardless of their age and views on social or politics.