摘要：‘Think globally, act locally,’ is a term that is commonly used in sustainability issue, which has become a global issue. Empowerment and involvement of local communities sought to be a solution. Sunda Hejo is one of the organizations in Garut that is involved in sustainability and empowering farmers around social forestry. Sunda Hejo organizes Kopi Kids activities in the context of regenerating individuals who will solve the issues of the local community in future. Kopi Kids is a placed-based education with a non-formal education model that makes Kopi Kids unique and inclusive, and has the potential to resolve issues that are being faced by local communities. Kopi Kids’ activities emphasize global abilities and local knowledge so that the participants will be able to compete internationally without forgetting their local identity. This ethnographic research focuses on adolescents in Kopi Kids, where at that age adolescents are exploring and developing their identities. This research explains how Kopi Kids as a placed-based education that has objectives on solving global issues in the local community and strengthening local identities in adolescents when at the same time, those teens are exposed to global trends. The result shows that Kopi Kids tends to be in the spectrum of ‘act globally, think locally,’ where their behavior is more inclined to global trends but their way of thinking is very strong with local values, even though there is a negative connotation in them. If Kopi Kids activity has been effective in achieving the objectives of its activities, global and local capabilities will support each other so that Sunda Hejo’s hopes to produce a generation that is in favor of the community and environmental issues around are possible to come true.
