Illustration. (Photo: TheAseanPost)

Entitled Youth Voices, the festival aims to take a close look at the youth, bring them together and serve as a venue for cultural activists from both regions, thus strengthening connections between the two continents, for a more inclusive, sustainable, resilient global community.
The opening event in Jakarta on Monday was a jazz concert that featured the award-winning French jazz accordionist Vincent Peirani, saxophonist Émile Parisien and violinist Sébastien Surel. The trio was joined by one of the most brilliant musicians of the Indonesian archipelago, pianist Sri Hanuraga, a major and unavoidable figure in the young Indonesian scene.
The festival programme includes jazz concerts, movie screenings and a photo exhibition providing an historical perspective about the ASEAN-EU cooperation in the past 45 years.