The young ac­tivist pre­sents a bird’s eye-view of one of the ear­li­est youth or­gan­i­sa­tion of Sikhs in In­done­sia, called HUM­SIKHA. 

One of the ear­li­est youth or­gan­i­sa­tions of Sikhs in In­done­sia is HUM­SIKHA – Him­punan Pe­muda Sikh In­done­sia, formed in May 1998 with the pur­pose of do­ing so­cial ser­vice. We be­gan by con­duct­ing small so­cial ac­tiv­i­ties such as dis­trib­ut­ing food to lo­cal com­mu­ni­ties and blood do­na­tion dri­ves work­ing to­gether with the In­done­sian Red Cross.

A Monthly Kir­tan and Lan­gar is also or­gan­ised with all ac­tiv­i­ties car­ried out by the Young Khalsa. To cel­e­brate the 300 years of the Birth of Khalsa, a mega event “Birth of Khalsa Opera” was or­gan­ised at the Jakarta Art Build­ing (Gedung Ke­sen­ian Jakarta). This event in­volved 70 to 80 Sikh girls and boys  from the age group of 8 to 22.

It also in­volved In­dian dancers, singers and mu­si­cians from the Jawa­har­lal Nehru In­dian Cul­tural Cen­ter in Jakarta. It took sev­eral months of prac­tice and prepa­ra­tion for the event. We had a full house with 350 peo­ple in at­ten­dance and every­one per­formed well. The au­di­ence was deeply touched by the over­all per­for­mance and pre­sen­ta­tion. In the year 2000, dur­ing Vasakhi, we or­gan­ised a “Vasakhi Mela” which had over a 1000 peo­ple at­tend­ing, mostly the In­dian com­mu­nity in Jakarta.

The event in­cluded Bhangra and In­dian dance com­pe­ti­tion, Pun­jabi cul­tural per­for­mances, In­dian fash­ion show as well as In­dian Food Fes­ti­val. The money raised from this event was do­nated to the Gu­rud­wara.

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HUM­SIKHA was also in­volved in the work­ing group of the first Sikh Youth Camp (Sam­me­lan) in In­done­sia in 2001.