Indonesian bishop appeals for more priests Youth commission chief challenges young people to have the courage to answer God's calling The head of the Indonesian bishops’ Commission for Youth, Bishop Pius Riana Prapdi of Ketapang. (Photo supplied) The head of the Indonesian bishops’ Commission for Youth has called on young Catholics to take up church vocations. Bishop Pius Riana Prapdi of Ketapang issued the call in an April 25 letter to mark the World Day of Vocations and to try an address a shortage of people entering the country’s seminaries. He quoted Pope Francis’ 2019 post-synodal apostolic exhortation Christus Vivit (Christ is Alive) and said that young people “are for God” and “God has decided that they should also be for others.”