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INFRASTRUCTURE

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TOURISM

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President Jokowi Targets Indonesia to Become Largest Digital Economic Power in ASEAN

President Joko Widodo

“I am optimistic that ASEAN and India will be the backbone of Indo-Pacific coopera-tion”

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ASEAN-India Partnership Creates Stability in Indo-Pacific Region

“I believe through the ASE-AN-India partnership, a peace-ful, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific region will be achieved,” said the president.

He further said the Indo-Pa-cific concept can be developed based on the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation of ASEAN where all the key countries have become parties to the treaty.

“The development of the In-do-Pacific concept should also be carried out openly, transpa-rently, inclusively based on the dialogue, the desire to cooperate and uphold international law,” said the president, adding that

with a such concept, unhealthy rivalry that may lead to ‘power projection’ can be avoided.

The concept would be good if carried out through building block approach, among others through strengthening bilate ral and plural-lateral cooperation such as ASEAN-India; strength-ening regional mechanisms such as IORA in the Indian Ocean and ASEAN-led mechanism, espe-cially East Asia Summit (EAS) Pacific Ocean; linkage and inte-gration of the mechanisms of co-operation among countries in In-dian and Pacific Oceans.

“By building a block, it will

create an Indo-Pacific region that can become one of the main sources of economic growth, or trade and industry center of the world,” said the president. He un-derlined the maritime coopera-tion as a key in the development of Indo-Pacific region and Indo-nesia has a strong commitment in enhancing maritime coopera-tion through IORA and EAS.

“I want to take this oppor-tunity to express my apprecia-tion for India’s support for ASE-AN’s centrality. I am optimistic that ASEAN and India will be the backbone of Indo-Pacific coope-ration,” said the president.

Last year ASEAN celebrat-ed its 50th anniversary, while the ASEAN-India partnership reached 25 years.

“If for the past 50 years, ASE-AN has succeeded in creating a peace and welfare ecosystem in Southeast Asia, then the ASE-AN-India partnership should also be able to contribute equal-ly to the wider region,” the presi-dent added.

Prior to joining the retreat, President and First Lady Iriana Joko Widodo attended a lun-cheon for the heads of ASEAN member countries with Indian President Ram Nath Kovind and

largest digital economic po-wer in ASEAN in 2020 with a projected value of e-commerce transactions to reach US$130 million.

To achieve the target, the government is processing ev-ery online transaction into in-formative data.

“Therefore, the country will need many experts in data technology,” said Yanuar in a written statement on Thursday (1/18).

According to Yanuar, the de-mand for workforce in the di-gital economy sector is still difficult to meet completely, be-cause the data science needs

The demand for manpower in the data technology sector is expected to increase signifi-cantly in the future. The data from LinkedIn as of January 2018, there were 251 vacancies for data scientists and 4,281 job openings related to the data technology, including data en-gineer, data analyst and busi-ness intelligence in Indonesia.

Deputy II of the Presidential Chief of Staff, Yanuar Nugroho, said that the administration of President Joko Widodo has a great vision in the digital eco-nomy sector.

President Jokowi has tar-geted Indonesia to become the

Young Investors Dominate Capital Market

PT Kustodian Sentral Efek Indonesia (KSEI) has recorded the number of in-vestors in the capital mar-ket reaching 1,118,913. The record is based on the Single Investor Identification (SID) data on December 20, 2017.

KSEI President Director Friderica Widyasari Dewi said the data came from the C-BEST, SBN, EBAE and S-INVEST systems. The four systems generate data that easily to know which ones are investors of stocks, mu-tual funds, and government securities (SBN).

“To reach 1 million inves-tors is very difficult. In the past it was also difficult to count the number of inves-tors of mutual funds, for example, but now with S-Invest system it’s easy to know,” she said at the Pacific Place, Jakarta, on Wednes-day (12/27/2017).

It is also easy to know the gender of the investors, of which currently is domi-nated by men at 59.3% and women at 40.7%.

In the age category, the biggest group is 21-30 years old at 26.24%, followed by the group of 31-40 years old at 25.12%, group of 41-50 years old 23.02%, group of 51-60 years old at 13.95%, group of 61-70 years old at 5.81%, below 20 years old at 3.82%, group of 71-80 years old at 1.71% and the rest is above 80 years old.

“It’s interesting that most of the investors are much younger now,” said the wo-man who is familiarly called Kiki.

In the education catego-ry, most of Indonesian in-vestors have S1 (university) degree as many as 51.21%, then high school (SMA) at 27.42%, D3 (college) at 9.53%, and S2 (master) de-gree at 6.21%.

“The ones who are cur-rently recorded as SMA ac-tually most of them are still studying in the college/uni-versity,” she said. (DTK/TPP)

Ms. Savita Kovind, ended with group photos.

After the retreat, President Jokowi along with other heads of ASEAN member countries and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi walked to the Mughal Gar-dens for group pictures again, where President Jokowi stood bet ween Cambodian Prime Mi-nister and Laos PM.

In the afternoon, the president attended the ASEAN-India Com-memorative Summit and the launch of the ASEAN-India Com-memorative Stamps at the Taj Diplomatic Enclave Hotel, New Delhi. (KEMLU/TPP)

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A peaceful, stable, and prosperous ecosystem must be created in the Indo-Pacific region, said President Joko Widodo when speaking at the ASEAN - India Summit, Session of India Prime Minister Retreat with Heads ASEAN member countries at the

Rasthrapati Bhawan on Thursday (1/25).

other sciences.The candidates who want

to work in the data technology have to understand the busi-ness and also its technological approach.

The teaching methods are more realistic for practical learning and are divided into 4 scientific areas, namely data science, data engineering, busi-ness intelligence and business analytics.

“So, the combination of the 4 scientific areas will form a more effective team in running data technology applications in the business world,” Yanuar said. (TPP)

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President Jokowi Inaugurates Gelora Bung Karno Stadium After Being Renovated

President Joko Wido-do (Jokowi) on Sunday (1/14) inau gurated Gelora Bung Kar-no Stadium (SUGBK) in Sena-yan, Jakarta, after its major renovation done.

Prior to the inauguration, the president who arrived at SUGBK at 18:10 pm, inspected the panels and the mockup of SUGBK development first.

Then, the president and Vice President Jusuf Kalla went to the inauguration ceremony ac-companied by Coordinating Minister for Human Develop-ment and Culture Puan Ma-harani, State Secretary Minis-

ter Pratikno, Youth and Sports Minister Imam Nahrawi, Pub-lic Works and Public Housing Minister Basuki Hadimuljono and PSSI Chairman Edy Rah-mayadi.

“By saying bismillahirrah-manirrahmanirrahim and with the grace of God Almighty, this afternoon I inaugurate the majorly renovated Bung Karno Stadium and declare the start of its use,” said president who then signed the inscription of the SUGBK inauguration.

After the inauguration, the president, vice president and the ministers headed for the

royal box to watch the friendly soccer match of Indonesian Na-tional Team against the Icelan-dic National Team.

The president praised the new face of SUGBK. “I think it’s very good. Earlier the Ice-land coach also said to me that the SUGBK stadium is very large and very good,” he told the reporters after watching the friendly match.

The friendly match ended with a score of 4-1 to Iceland National Team. Commenting on the score, the president said it was a warm-up to find out the strengths and weakness-

es of the Indonesian National Team.

“From the game we know which parts need to be fixed, so that later we will perform better in the other matches, especially the Asian Games,” said the head of state.

The president further said it was important to participate in a competition regularly to im-prove the performance whether at junior or senior level.

“I think we have to play in the match again and again, as well as to keep practicing. Yes, that is what must be done,” said the president. (setkab/TPP)

Focused on Economic Growth, President Asks Cabinet to Enhance Investment Climate

Meeting with President Jokowi, Japan Promises to Speed Up Six Major Infrastructure Projects

When holding a limited meeting with several minis-ters of the Working Cabinet at the Merdeka Palace in Ja-karta, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) urged his ministers to focus their works on grow-ing the economy in the coun-try.

Primarily the works that related to solving any prob-lem in investment and ex-port matters, said President Jokowi.

“Everything must be in one line, one direction so that the problems faced in the field can be handled proper-ly,” said the president at the Presidential Palace on Friday (1/5).

The president also remind-ed his staff to utilize and safeguard the international trust on the Indonesian ma-nagement in economy which is considered improving by upgrading the rating.

Japan said it will speed up the completion of six major in-frastructure projects in Indo-nesia as agreed by Pre sident Joko Widodo and Ja panese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

The Japanese intention was revealed when President Joko Widodo received a dele-gation led by Japanese Prime Minister’s special envoy Toshihiro Nikai who attend-ed the 60th anniversary of di plomatic relations between the two countries at the Pre-sidential Palace, Jakarta, on Friday (1/19).

President Jokowi said at a meeting with Shinzo Abe in Manila, Philippines, in No-vember 2017, the two coun-tries agreed on several issues.

“We agreed to accelerate the completion of some in-frastructure projects. At that time, I said let us finish soon the cooperation projects we have agreed on,” said Jokowi.

Minister of Public Works and Public Housing Basuki Hadimuljono, who attended meeting in the Jakarta, said there are six infrastructure projects in Indonesia carried out in cooperation with Ja-pan.

The first project, according to Basuki, is the construction of Patimban Port. This pro-ject is scheduled for ground-breaking in May 2018 so that in March 2019 there will be a soft opening. Budi said his

Jokowi Gathers Kings All Over Indonesia To Get Inputs

President Joko Widodo has gathered the kings and sul-tans all over Indonesia at the Bogor Presidential Palace, West Java, to get some inputs from them.

“I’m not going to say any-thing, today I just want to lis-ten, the problems if any faced nowadays by your excellency sultans, kings and queens,” said Jokowi at the Garu-da Room, Bogor Presidential Palace, West Java, on Thurs-day (1/4).

The meeting was attended by 88 kings and sultans from all over Indonesia. As many as 20 are from Sumatra, 17 from Java, 3 from Bali, 5 from NTT, 4 from NTB, 10 from Kalimantan, 18 from Sulawesi, 9 from Maluku and 2 from Papua.

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The kings and sultans were wearing distinctive royal cos-tumes of their respective king-doms, while Jokowi was wearing a long-sleeved batik shirt.

Having been asked to provide inputs, the kings and the sul-tans were one by one told Pres-ident Jokowi what they thought about some issues.

“We offer high appreciation, thank you very much Mr. Presi-dent, we are honored. From Sep-tember 2017 to January 2018 we have met you 4 times in Cirebon, Medan, and here twice. For us, you really love the people, love us all. We can feel it as we can meet you face to face and share our thinking,” said Kepaksian Skala Brak, Lampung, who is also the Chairman of Royal Palace Coun-cil, Edward Syah Pernong, the Sultan of Skala Brak. (TPP)

The ranking on ease of doing business jumped to the 72nd po-sition in 2017, the investment rating has also been upgrad-ed by the international rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S & P), while the grade of Indonesia’s long-term debt rating in foreign and local currency rose to BBB with outlook stable according to Fitch Ratings.

“All of that is a giant leap,” said the president.

Therefore, the president called on all his staff to jointly seek so-lutions for a number of problems still existing which are consi-dered hampering the investment and trade climate in the country.

“Just like a human body, our conditions are good; the choles-terol is good, the heart is good, the lungs are good, the blood pressure is good, but we can-not run fast. There must be a problem that we have to find out what,” said the president. (TRB/TPP)

ministry was assigned to build the access road from the natio-nal road to the Patimban Port.

The second project is the Phase 1 of MRT project which has to be completed by the end of 2018 and immediately on trial so that in 2019 can be operated.

The third project, continued Budi, “Is the West and East corri-dor of MRT which is in the prepa-ration stage to select the consul-tant.”

The fourth project is Jakar-ta-Surabaya express train which will be re-evaluated on the ta riff so that it will be cheaper than the projection and preliminary calculation, while the feasibility study is being prepared.

The fifth project is Trans-Su-matra Toll Road Project from Padang to Pekanbaru.

“We have a new route with a tunnel and connecting road. The tunnel will be financed by Japan under the transfer of technology agreement. The con-necting road will be financed by to Hutama Karya as a con-tractor assigned by the govern-ment,” said Budi.

Such a financing concept will not burden the state budget. Ac-cording to the plan, the ground-breaking will be held in the end of 2018.

The sixth project is Marsela Block. “Japan will start it soon. They are also preparing the fish-ery development projects in out-er islands such as Natuna and Morotai,” said Budi. (ANT/TPP)

Vice President JK: Almost All National Economic Indicators Improve

Vice President Jusuf Kalla (JK) has said that we should be grateful because almost all the indicators of national economy have improved, although the in-flation rate is still considered too high by some parties.

“Our debt is under control, our national politics is good, sta-ble, the commodity prices once were blamed for causing eco-nomy downturn now are good, so we cannot blame on them again,” he said while opening of the trade of Indonesia Stock Ex-change (BEI) at BEI Building, Jakarta on Tuesday (1/2).

“Our economy grew 5 percent due to the falling prices of coal, rubber and palm oil previously. Now Alhamdulillah (thank God)

they rise,” he added.In politics, JK continued, eve-

rything was fine although many people still worried some cha-os would happen in the election year of 2019. “Such a thought is in the past. In the last three elec-tion years, it was always peace-ful because the campaign is now different. We use the internet more than rally on the streets, so there is less physical clash.”

The good conditions have stimulated the economy to grow further, amid the uncertainty of the world situations. “The Middle East, especially Iran and Iraq, is now getting edgy. However, it does not affect our economy be-cause we have a big market. Be-sides usually if there is a prob-

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lem in the oil-rich countries, the oil price will increase and will be followed by the rise in prices of other commodities such as coal and rubber,” JK said.

He called on the investors and public companies to invest more in the real sector instead of in the capital market. “They should build more factories or distribu-tion networks to grow the retail sector.”

JK added that one way to encourage the investments is by lowering the interest rates and gradually Bank Indonesia has been doing it. “It’s meant to push investments in the real sector, instead of saving the money in time deposits. The lower interest rate has also in-

creased the index of the capital market.”

Previously during the ce-remony of closing trade on year end 2017 in the same place led by the president, Financial Ser-vices Authority (OJK) Chair-man Wimboh Santoso said, “We thank all parties; the list-ed companies, the authority and the market players for their contribution to make the mar-ket bullish.”

Attending the opening trade ceremony were Wimboh San-toso, Bank Indonesia Gover-nor Agus Martowardoyo, Coor-dinating Minister for Economic Affairs Darmin Nasution and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati. (TPP)

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Government Targets to Attract Rp250.7 Trillion Investments in 13 Industrial Zones This Year

Minister Luhut Asks Ratu Prabu to Meet 3 Conditions for Building LRT

The government has targeted to attract in-vestments in 13 indus-trial zones amounting to Rp250.7 trillion this year. The 13 special economic zones are the one in Mo-rowali in Central Sulawe-si, the Special Economic Zone (KEK) of Sei Mangkei in North Sumatra, Ban-taeng in South Sulawe-si, JIIPE Gresik in East Java, Kendal in Central Java, Wilmar in Serang, Banten; Dumai in Riau, Konawe in Southeast Su-lawesi; KEK Palu in Cen-tral Sulawesi, Bitung in North Sulawesi, Ketapang in West Kalimantan, KEK Lhokseumawe Aceh and

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Agriculture Minister Boasts Indonesia for Stopping Corn and Red Onion Imports

The Ministry of Agri-culture held a National Working Meeting on Ag-ricultural Development 2018 on Monday (1/15) with a theme of “Lifting the Farmers’ Welfare” at Hotel Bidakara, Jakar-ta, attended by about 1,500 participants.

During the occa-sion, Agriculture Mi-nister Amran Sulai man presented a number of achievements in his 3 years term of office. The first achievement is that Indonesia does not im-port medium rice any-more in 2016-2017.

“I want to show some achievements of the Ag-riculture Ministry up to this day,” he said.

Amran’s moves to prevent Indonesia from importing the medi-um rice is by maximiz-ing unused land like the one in the swamp areas and increasing the planting frequency from 2 times to 3 times a year.

“As example is the Rawa Lebak. The swam area used to be flood-ed and became a play-ground in the rainy sea-son while in the dry season it was on fire. Now it has been trans-formed into 1,000 hec-tares of paddy fields. We have 10 million hec-tares of swam areas like that, potentially to be developed into paddy fields. If we can harvest 3 times, 30 million tons of rice will be produced

PT Ratu Prabu Energi Tbk plans to build the mass transpor-tation mode of Light Rail Transit (LRT) in Greater Jakarta (Jabo-detabek) and prepares an invest-ment of US$30 billion.

Coordinating Minister for Ma-ritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Pan-djaitan expressed his apprecia-tion for the company’s business plan. He reminded Ratu Prabu about the three requirements to meet for building LRT.

“Investors must fulfill the three requirements,” Luhut said in his office on Friday (1/12).

First, Ratu Prabu must priori-tize the local contents in the cons-truction of the LRT, since many companies in Indonesia are al-ready capable to produce various products used in the LRT project.

Luhut said the current Jabo-debek and Palembang LRT pro-ject uses the local contents about 50 percent. If some contents have

to be imported, the technology transfer system must adhere to them.

Second, the LRT must be envi-ronmentally friendly. The third is using Indonesian human resour-ces as many as possible. “This must be prioritized, even if they need to be trained first,” Luhut said.

Not only Luhut, previous-ly, SOEs Minister Rini Soemar-no also responded positively to the plan of PT Ratu Prabu Ener-gi Tbk to build the LRT in Jabo-detabek. This shows the trans-portation projects in Indonesia is getting preferred by the private companies.

According to her, some big ci-ties are indeed in desperate need of efficient and cheap mass trans-portation, since the grow of the roads cannot follow the grow of the number of motor vehicles.

With many private companies

participating in the infrastruc-ture projects, Rini added, it will assist the government in building this nation.

“Mass transportation mode is a must for Jakarta and its sur-roundings. If private companies want to build one, they are wel-comed,” said Rini in Indramayu.

The construction of the current Jabodetabek and Palembang LRT project was assigned by the go-vernment to the state-owned en-terprise (SOE) to work on to sup-port the Asian Games 2018. The section in Palembang is targeted to finish in 2018, while the one in Jabodebek will be fully completed in 2019.

Rini said she will leave the door wide open if Ratu Prabu want-ed to cooperate with the SOEs in building its LRT. “If we can work together, private and state-owned companies, why not,” she added. (LPT/TPP)

per year. This is what we should pursue,” Am-ran said.

The other achieve-ment, according to Am-ran, is that Indonesia has been exporting the red onion to 6 countries. “We (formerly) imported 12,000 tons of red oni-on, today we export it to 6 countries. We become exporter from previous-ly importer country.”

On the corn produc-tion, Indonesia has also been experiencing sur-plus lately, so it does not need to import the com-modity anymore, said the minister.

“We used to spend Rp12 trillion for im-porting the corn. Oth-er countries asked how could you stop import-ing in such a short time? I answered, just three ways, work, work, work,” he said.

The national meeting was also attended by Heads of Regional Work Unit (SKPD) of the mi-nistry, Director Gene-ral of Domestic Trade of the Trade Ministry, Di-rector Ge neral of Water Resources of the PUPR Ministry, Director Ge-neral of Development and Community Em-powerment of the Vil-lage Ministry, Director General of Taking Care the Poor of the Social Af-fairs Ministry, KPK offi-cials, top brasses of the Police, Army Command-er Assistant and other officers. (KMP/TPP)

KI Tanjung Buton in Riau.Industry Minister Air-

langga Hartarto said that to attract the invest-ments, the government will provide the ease of investing in the industri-al estates.

“Among others is by providing fiscal and non-fiscal incentives, and the formation of a task force to take care for the pro-vision of gas, electricity, water, human resources, land and the spatial plan-ning,” Airlangga said in a written statement on Sat-urday (1/6).

He said the fiscal in-centives would refer to the benchmark in Thai-

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land and other countries. Hopefully, it will contri-bute in improving the competitiveness of Indo-nesia compared to the other ASEAN countries.

Besides, the econo mic management in Indone-sia has been judged as getting better resulting in the jump of the ease of do-ing business rank to 72th position in 2017 and the international rating agen-cy Standard & Poor’s (S & P) gave the investment grade rating.

The minister has pro-jected that the invest-ments in the overall manu facturing indus-try this year will reach

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Rp352 trillion in total. With such amount, it will create new jobs and mul-tiplier effects of increas-ing added value and fo-reign exchange earnings from the exports.

Airlangga added that he has facilitated the de-velopment of a number of integrated industrial es-tates with the facilities that will support the in-vestors to develop their business in the country.

“The industrial deve-lopment is also one of the government’s efforts to reduce the domestic eco-nomic inequality and rea-lize the Indonesia cen-tric,” he said. (TPP)

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Entering 2018, Indonesian Tourism Heavily Promoted in Netherlands

Indonesia participated in the Vakantiebeurs tourism exhibition held in Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, The Netherlands on January 9-14, 2018. In this participation, the Ministry of Tourism cooperated with 11 travel agents, 5 hotels, Garu-da Indonesia, representatives of Maluku Provincial Govern-ment, baristas, and art per-formance teams.

The 140-m2 Indonesian Pa-vilion in the Vakantiebeurs 2018 presented media work-shop, business meeting (travel exchange), B to C, tourism in-formation service, coffee and mixologist corner, art show and awareness campaign.

The Indonesian Pavilion also displayed new tourist des-

tinations in various provin-ces, considered to be favored by people in the Netherland and Europe. Some tourist destinations were promoted by Ministry of Tourism itself, some others by the provincial government of West Java and Maluku Province, while the rest by tour operators by em-phasizing the unique attrac-tions of each destination ra-ted to have promising market share there.

The Vakantiebeurs 2018 was opened by Mayor of Utrecht, Jan van Zanen, by in-viting ambassadors from par-ticipating countries to have breakfast together. During the breakfast, prominent speaker Adjiedj Bakas gave a presen-

tation about the global chal-lenge in the future and its influence on the tourism in-dustry and food production.

Indonesian Ambassador to the Netherlands, I Gus-ti Agung Wesaka Puja, visit-ed the Indonesian Pavilion in Hall 4 after the breakfast.

Vakantiebeurs is an annu-al tourism exhibition in the Netherlands organized by the cooperation between Jaar-beurs, Vakantiebeurs, VIV Europe and City of Utrecht to showcase products of leisure, vacation, and tourism from various countries.

Vakantiebeurs is one of the world’s largest and most pres-tigious tourism exhibitions in the Benelux area where visi-

Dato Paduka Lim Jock Hoi

The ASEAN changed its chairmanship from Vietnamese Le Leongong Minh to Dato Paduka Lim Jock Hoi from Brunei Darussalam on Monday (1/5), witnessed by Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Mar-sudi. She said Indonesia is committed to facilitate ASEAN and this time by cons-tructing a new secretariat building with the concept of ‘Let’s Celebrate the Dia-logue’, consisting of two towers with 16 floors each.

Retno also said ASEAN should strengthen the cooperation with India, especially in economy and maritime affairs. She said that while giving a speech at the Opening Session of the 5th ASEAN-India Network of Think-Tanks (AINTT) in Jakar-ta on Tuesday (1/6). (KEMLU/TPP)

Indonesian Ambassador to Egypt Helmy Fauzy received the visit of Super Star Trading Co. Chairman Shehta El Bahnasawy and General Manager Hesham Barrada in the end of 2017. The company has been importing Robusta and Arabica coffee from Indonesia since 2000.

“We are importing coffee through PT Asal Jaya, PT Asia Makmur, Sungai Budi Group and PT Indo Cafco with annu-al transactions valued at US$10 million and we plan to in-crease it to US$12 million in 2018,” Shehta said.

Ambassador Helmy urged the Indonesian exporters to grab the opportunity. “The consumption of coffee in Egypt is very high,” he added. (KEMLU/TPP)

Satisfied with the quality and after sales service from PT Dirgantara Indonesia, Senegalese President Macky Sall ex-pressed his desire to buy one more CN-235 aircraft from In-donesia while meeting with Indonesian Ambassador Mansyur Pangeran in Dakar recently.

It would become the fourth aircraft after in 2017 the go-vernment of Senegal signed a contract for the purchase of its third CN-235 aircraft. Ambassador Mansyur said beside the aircraft, he also offered railway carriages produced by PT INKA and cargo ships, tankers and military vessels produced by PT PAL. The offer, according to him, is now being discussed in the relevant ministries of Senegal. (KEMLU/TPP)

Handover of Trade Attaché Post at Indonesian Embassy in Paris

Strengthening Relation of Creative Cities Bandung-Adelaide, Indonesia Encourages Cooperation on Fashion and Fintech

Promotion the Beauty of Manado in GuangzhouThe Government of Indone-

sia continues to conduct va-rious overseas promotional activities, including in Guang-zhou, China, to introduce 10 Indonesian tourist destina-tions “beyond Bali.” Not only the government, some other parties have also participated in this promotion, such as Lion Air who since 2016 serves di-rect flights from various cities in China to Jakarta, Bali and Manado. To promote further Indonesia’s tourism, in ear-ly 2018 Lion Air held Manado Tourism Promotion and Mana-do Photography Contest.

The event, supported by the Provincial Government of North Sulawesi and Indo-nesian Consulate General (KJRI) Guangzhou, was offi-cially launched at China Hotel, Guangzhou, on January 17,

After Having New Secretary General and Secretariat, ‘ASEAN Should Strengthen Cooperation with India’

Indonesian Embassy in Cairo Continues to Push Exports of Coffee to Egypt

Senegal Plans to Buy More CN-235 Aircrafts

In a ceremony at the Indo-nesian Embassy in Paris on Thursday (1/11), Mr. Moga Si-matupang officially handed over his position as Trade At-taché to Mrs. Megawati. Mr. Moga Simatupang will then return to work at the Ministry of Trade in Jakarta.

In his speech, Ambassa-dor Hotmangaradja Pandjai-tan thanked Mr. Moga for his services. The ambassador said the tasks of Trade Attaché at the Indonesian Embassy faced a serious challenge, especial-ly how to increase Indonesia’s trade balance with France.

“Bandung in Indonesia and Adelaide in South Aus-tralia are both creative cities. During this time, the cities have established cooperation on fashion, but the realiza-tion needs to be continuous-ly enhanced and expanded,” said Indonesian Acting Con-sul General Hermanus Dima-ra in a meeting with Director for International Strategies, Department of State Develop-ment South Australia, Narelle Slivak in Adelaide on Tuesday (1/23). The meeting was also attended by Indonesian Eco-nomic Consul Silvia Malau.

The meeting of Acting Con-sul General Hermanus and his team with the South Aus-tralia government was coin-cided with the visit of West Java Governor Ahmad Her-yawan to Adelaide on Janu-ary 24-26, 2018 to follow up the cooperation of West Java-South Australia.

In fashion, TAFE South Australia and the Islamic Fashion Institute (IFI) Ban-dung have established coope-ration for the exchange of student and instructors, as well as the curriculum deve-lopment. “We encourage these partnerships to have econom-ic added value, such as par-ticipation in the internation-al fashion events in Adelaide, the cooperation of Indonesian designers with boutiques in Adelaide that leads to joint-production or joint-market-ing,” Acting Consul General Hermanus added.

Other sectors to be deve-

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tors can get up-to-date infor-mation on travel trends, the latest holiday destinations, as well as tips while visiting the favorite tourist destinations. The Vakantiebuers 2018 was covered by about 100 media and travel bloggers from va-rious countries.

Indonesia’s participation this year is expected to in-crease the number of for-eign tourist arrivals to Indo-nesia, including those from the Nether lands, to reach the target of 20 million foreign tourists in 2019. The Vakan-tiebeurs this year is expect-ed to repeat the success of the 2017 exhibition which was at-tended by about 110,000 visi-tors. (KEMLU/TPP)

Both countries have good eco-nomic cooperation, but In-donesia still records trade deficit, mainly due to some ex-pensive commodities exported from France to Indonesia such as aircraft, spacecraft, and spare parts, machinery and drugs (pharmaceutical pro-

loped in the cooperation are digital economy and finance technology (finatech). Fin-tech is considered the most potential business to de-velop in Indonesia, while in Australia, fintech is current-ly growing significantly and becomes the attention of go-vernment, including in South Australia.

Many Indonesian startups are growing into unicorns. Citing World Economic Fo-rum (WEF) data, Traveloka is one of 57 startups who have become unicorns. Gojek and Tokopedia have also become phenomenal startups that attract the attention of many countries, including Austra-lia.

“The success stories of In-donesian startups need to be shared with the digital eco-nomy ecosystem in Australia. On ideas and creativity, Indo-nesia is not inferior. However, Indonesia still can learn from Australia on the aspect of regulation, incentives, infra-structure development and business plan,” said Herma-nus.

Director Narelle Slivak welcomed Indonesia’s inten-tion to deepen cooperation in the creative sector with South Australia. “We believe that the people-to-people re-lationship, the synergies bet-ween the creative ecosystems of both parties will further strengthen the coopera-tion between West Java and South Australia,” said Slivak. (KEMLU/TPP)

2018. Also attending the pro-motional event were the Head of Tourism Office and Head of BKPMD North Sulawesi Pro-vince, CEO of Lion Air Jakar-ta and Acting Consul Gene-ral of Indonesia in Guangzhou. About 500 visitors attended the event, consisting of tour operators/travel agents, di-ving communities, media, and bloggers who broadcasted the event online right away.

The Manado Photogra-phy Contest will take place throughout 2018 and is open to all, providing rewards of RMB 200 million (US$300 thou-sand) plus the “President Cup”. This contest is quite presti-gious because involving fa-mous judges in China, among others are Gary Sun, Qu Kai-tang, and Xie Mo who have re-ceived awards from inside and

ducts). To overcome the deficit, the

Indonesian Embassy in Pa-ris participated in the Trade Expo Indonesia (TEI) 2017 in Jakarta by bringing in 16 French businessmen, for busi-ness-matching missions, and they were introduced to vari-ous Indonesian products. Du-ring the TEI 2017, the tran-sactions worth US$62 billion were sealed between Indone-sia and France. The ambassa-dor called for keeping up the good achievement or improve it in the future.

On Saturday (1/13), Indone-sian Embassy held a meeting with the Indonesian people in France (diaspora) as well as a farewell party for officials who have ended their assign-ment. In addition to Mr. Moga, the officials who will soon re-turn to Indonesia are: Ambas-sador Fauzi Sulaiman (Depu-ty Permanent Representative to UNESCO), Mr. Ramadan-syah Hasan, and Mr. Teuku Zulkaryadi. (KEMLU/TPP)

outside of China.During the event, Lion Air

Guangzhou signed a coopera-tion agreement with Diving As-

sociation for marine tourism and a strategic partnership with the camera manufacturer “Canon”. (KEMLU/TPP)

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To Build 200 Km LRT in Jakarta, Ratu Prabu Prepares Rp320 Trillion

42% Complete, Pandaan-Malang Toll Road to Operate Late 2018

He added the government will not provide any support financially for the project.

“This is purely business to business,” he said. Accord-ing to Sandi, PT Ratu Prabu Energi has also coordinated with the Ministry of Trans-portation and Jabodetabek Transportation Management Agency (BPTJ) regarding the project.

“They have coordinated with BPTJ and Transporta-tion Ministry. The plan is be-ing firm up. About the jobs will be created, we still study it. The sure thing is that this project will make Jakarta to have proper rail-based trans-portation mode like major cit-ies abroad,” he said. (DTK/TPP)

“The completion of Pan-daan-Malang toll road will accelerate the distribu-tion flow of goods and ser-vices, as well as improve the economy in East Java,” Dwimawan added.

In addition to accelerat-ing the construction of the Pandaan-Malang toll road, the Public Works and Pub-lic Housing (PUPR) Ministry is also finishing the Ngawi-Kertosono and Solo-Ngawi sections which are planned to start operating in the near future.

Head of Public Communi-cation Bureau of the PUPR Ministry Endra S. Atmaw-idjaja said the inaugura-tion of the Ngawi-Kertoso-no highway operation will be adjusted to the schedule of the president’s activities. (JPN/TPP)

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Makassar Port Project Reaching 58.26%, Minister of SOEs Says This

SOEs Minister Rini Soemarno appreciated the physical prog-ress of Makassar New Port (MNP) development which has now reached 58.26%. She expressed her appreciation after inspecting the MNP site on Monday (1/15).

“I see the progress of MNP de-velopment and I believe the proj-ect can be completed in Octo-ber 2018 instead of by the end of 2018 as scheduled,” said the minister in a press release.

She said the SOEs Ministry deeply appreciated Pelindo IV for its efforts to speed up the com-pletion the national strategic project amid various obstacles

on the way, including problems in land acquisition and weather factors.

“Not to mention the discovery of 9 active old landmines which certainly took time to deactivate them before the works could be continued. I applaud the current MNP progress and I believe Pe-lindo IV can complete it as soon as possible,” Rini said.

She added that she hoped the road to access the port would be completed by the end of Febru-ary.

President Director of PT Pelin-do IV, Doso Agung, said the con-struction of MNP Phase I is tar-

geted to finish by the end of 2018 so that the operational of con-tainer services can be done in early 2019.

“As of January 14, 2018, the physical progress of MNP Phase I has reached 58.26%,” said Doso Agung. It consists of Phase I A with a progress of 57.99%, Phase I B 62.34% and Phase I C 39.30%.

Director of Port Facility and Equipment of Pelindo IV, Farid Padang, said he was optimistic the construction of MNP will be completed as scheduled.

According to him, the works being done currently in the package A include dock reclama-tion, fabrication of secant piles and dock bored piles as well as works on the secant piles and bored piles.

In the package B, the works are reclamation of container ter-minal area, soil replacement in causeway area, revetment and precast channeling. “The works in the package C include the production of 1-5 kg cores and 5-10 kg underlayers as well as

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Despite some rejections, PT Angkasa Pura I ensures the construction of New Yogyakar-ta International Airport (NYIA) will not be postponed from the schedule. The airport is target-ed to start operating partly in 2019.

President Director of PT Ang-kasa Pura I, Faik Fahmi, said that despite the protests from residents and a group of activ-ists, the process of land clear-ing and infrastructure devel-opment has started early this

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the installation of core breakwa-ters (1-5 kg) and toe protection breakwaters (100 - 160 kg).”

Arwin, Head of MNP Project Management Unit, added that the MNP development is divided into several stages, of which the Phase I consists of three packag-es of works A, B and C.

“The works in package A in-clude the construction of access road, dock and container termi-nal with a capacity of 1.5 mil-lion twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs),” Arwin said.

The works in package B in-clude the reclamation of 13 hect-ares area, building 1,276 meters causeway and 16 hectares con-tainer terminal, as well as dredg-ing the tailing pond of the port at 16.0 mean low water springs (mLWS).

The work in package C is the development of 1,310 meters breakwater.

According to Arwin, the pack-age A needs an investment of Rp326 billion, package B Rp1.06 trillion and package C Rp228 billion. (BSN/TPP)

To make the airport able to be operated immediate-ly, he called on the communi-ty to support the airport deve-lopment that is located not far from the southern coast of Ku-lonprogo. To those who still re-ject the project, Angkasa Pura I said it will keep trying to find a way to settle down through friendly discussions.

“We keep trying to find a so-lution,” Faik Fahmi said.

Meanwhile, Yogyakarta Go-vernor Sri Sultan HB X left the rejection problem to AP I and Kulonprogo Regency admin-istration to solve. The king of Yog yakarta Sultanate said he believed both parties will be able to solve the problem.

“I can’t do all, let Angkasa Pura and Kulonprogo govern-ment to settle it this time,” said Sri Sultan HB X. (TPP)

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The Beauty of Rp235 Billion Worth Petak Bridge in NTT

Chairman of the House of Representatives Commission V Fary Djemi Francis has inspect-ed the construction of the Petuk I Bridge in Kolhua Village, Mau-lafa District, Kupang City, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT).

The bridge was claimed to be the first in Indonesia to use pre-stressed concrete girder techno-logy.

In his working visit, Fary was accompanied by a number of offi-cials of the National Road Imple-mentation Center (BPJN) X Ku-pang NTT.

Fary was inspecting the prog-

ress of the bridge construction to make sure the works were done timely and will be functioned in 2018.

Currently, Fary said, he is try-ing to get the fund from the state budget 2018 for installing sup-porting ornaments at the top of the bridge.

“When I accompanied the Minister of PUPR to the Petuk Bridge recently, the minister asked me to put ornaments with NTT characteristics. It will make the bridge look distinctive and become a tourist attraction,” said Fary in Kupang on Thursday

(11/2/2017).Fary said the construction

of the bridge had been planned since 1980 and can only be re-alized now. He said he expect-ed the bridge to break down the congestions in Kupang City.

The bridge as part of out-er ring road of Kupang City will connect the road from Tenau Ku-pang Port, leading to the south-ern part of Kupang City, to se-veral districts on the mainland of South Timor, South Central Timor, North Central Timor, Belu and Malaka.

“We want to make the Petuk

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Bridge become an icon of Kupang City,” said Fary.

In the meantime, Head of BPJN X Kupang NTT, Hadria-nus Bambang Nurhadi Widihar-tono said that the bridge uses construction technology of pre-stressed concrete girder with the length of 320 meters.

“The bridge has been built since 2015 and once I become the Head of BPJN X, within eight months the construction has been completed,” said Bambang.

The fund spent on the cons-truction of the bridge is about Rp235.5 billion. (PU/TPP)

PT Ratu Prabu Energi (Tbk) has intended to build a transportation mode of 200 kilometers Light Rail Transit (LRT) in Jakarta and its sur-roundings by preparing fund amounting to Rp320 trillion.

The intention was re-vealed by the management of PT Ratu Prabu Energi while meeting with Vice Governor of DKI Jakarta Sandiaga Uno at the Jakarta City Hall on Thursday (1/4).

Sandiaga said the fund to be prepared was around US$25 billion or equivalent to Rp320 trillion. The cons-truction will take place for 5 years and begin in 2020.

“The total fund needed is around Rp320 trillion,” said Sandi.

Until mid-January 2018, the physical development of Pandaan-Malang toll road for the whole joint section has reached 42.104 percent.

The target is that the Pandaan-Malang toll road section will be ready to ope-rate by the end of this year.

‘’The land acquisition has been realized 80.60 per-cent,’’ said AVP Corporate Communications of Jasa Marga, Dwimawan Heru, on Sunday (1/14).

He said that the 38.488 kilometers highway is de-signed to have five sections and will be connected to the Gempol-Pandaan toll road.

The operation of the high-way is expected to reduce the congestion in the arteri-al roads. It will also cut the travel time from Malang to Pandaan and vice versa.

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completed by the end of 2018, so in April 2019 it will be ope-rational,” Faik said at Bangsal Kepatihan on Monday (1/15).

He added the construction of NYIA is divided into two parts namely the airside or the cons-truction of runway and land side which includes the sup-porting facilities such as termi-nal and waiting room.

“For terminal, it is targeted to finish in 2019,” he said.

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Soppeng Regent: We Serves the Community, not to be Served Instead

Soppeng Regent Andi Kas-wadi Razak said he would crack down on any official who want to be served by the com-munity. The reason is because officials are the people’s ser-vants.

Kaswadi said that du-ring the declaration of Map-padeceng Movement (Gema) of Soppeng while celebrating the turn of the year from 2017 to 2018.

According to Kaswadi, Gema is a strategic program with ac-tivities motivated to help the needy people.

“We will move them to achieve a decent and better life,” he was quoted by makas-sar.sindonews.com as saying.

Kaswadi added he hoped no single Soppeng person would feel to be left behind by the lo-cal government. He ordered his entire staff not to abuse their position. “We are serving the public, not to be served by the public. If there is any official

who asks to be served, I will punish firmly,” he said.

He further said that as long as he leads the region, the obs-tacles and challenges may al-ways come up but will not hinder his intention to build Soppeng Regency and realize a better government that is serv-ing well.

“It has proven, given during our administration the econo-my has increased significantly from 5.1% to 8.2% or up 3%,” said Kaswadi.

He also said the banks are now willing to provide cre dit for small business without dif-ficult conditions. “We as the government will facilitate to get such a credit,” he said.

According to Kaswadi, this year Soppeng government has been building a ring road (pi-oneer road) and in 2018 it will be paved. The construction of the new road is to access the Nature Reserve (KWA) of Lejja.

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Sandiaga Wants Pulogadung to Become Digital-Based Economy Area

West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan held a courtesy call with Shizouka Prefecture Vice Go-vernor Takashi Namba at Pakuan State Building, Bandung, on Monday (1/15).

“We discussed some issues, especially the coope-ration between Shizuoka Airport Mt. Fuji and West Java International Airport (BIJB) Kertajati,” said Aher, the nickname of Ahmad Heryawan.

The visit of Vice Governor Shizuoka to West Java returned the visit of Governor of West Java to Shi-zuoka in November 2017 for signing a joint agree-ment between West Java Province and Shizouka Prefecture in economy and human resource deve-lopment.

The cooperation, according to Aher, is related to the opening of Kertajati-Shizuoka direct flight and cargo shipments. One of the activities realized un-der the cooperation was the participation of Shizuo-ka Prefectural Government at the West Java Eco Marathon in Pangalengan, Bandung Regency in Oc-tober 2017. Other activities were sending internship participants from West Java to the Shizuoka Pre-fectural Government Office and participating in the Food Expo held in Shizuoka Prefecture.

“Next, we will initiate the cooperation between the Faculty of Nursing UNPAD and the Faculty of Nursing University of Shizuoka,” he said, adding both parties also explored the potentials in tourism, trade, and investment.

Aher said Takashi told him Shizuoka has na-ture tourist destinations like the ones in West Java. During his visit, Takashi paid a great attention to the Gedong Gincu mango. According to him, being in the Pacific Ocean with warm climate, Shizuoka City’s residents are very fond of the mango originat-

ed from Indramayu-Majalengka.Regarding human resource development in West

Java, the governor said he sought the opportunity of knowledge transfer by preparing high quality hu-man resources in West Java for hire by the compa-nies in Shizuoka.

In the meeting, Governor Aher also served the Waringin Pangalengan coffee to Takashi. This West Java origin coffee has been marketed worldwide. “The coffee is very rich in taste,” Takashi said with amazement.

According to Aher, the coffee is very special with a strong aroma. “When touching the tongue, it will feel a little fruity with medium acidity that spreads to all the mouths. In fact, at the end, there is a sweet sensation,” he said.

The serving of the best coffee of West Java aimed to honor the guests, he added. “West Java and Shi-zuoka Prefecture of Japan have committed to co-operate in various fields. The Sister Provinces MoU was signed in Hamamatsu in November 2017. So, all the hospitality is to venerate the guests and warm up the relationship between West Java and Shizuoka.” (TMP/TPP)

West Java and Shizuoka Explore Opportunities for Strategic Cooperation

East Java Governor Dr. H. Soekarwo has offered Ja-pan to build a car factory in East Java, considering the bright prospect of its econo-my. Besides, having a factory in East Java will cut the dis-tribution cost.

The offer was presented by Pakde Karwo, the nickname of the governor, while receiv-ing the visit of Japanese Con-sul General in Surabaya, Masaki Tani in Surabaya on Tuesday (6/6/2017).

Pakde Karwo said the bright prospect of East Java economy is evidenced by the relatively stable econo-mic growth from 6.08% in 2013, 5.86% in 2014, 5.44% in 2015, and 5.55% in 2016

while until the first quarter of 2017, the economic growth in East Java reached 5.37% (YoY).

The income per capita in East Java also continues to in-crease to US$3,600 in 2016 from US$2,100 in 2009. In 2017 it is expected to reach US$3.900 and in 2020 is targeted to reach US$5000.

“When the income per ca-pita rises, the middle class also grows. So, the purchasing po-wer is stronger, including in buying a car. That’s the poten-tial that can be utilized,” said Pakde Karwo.

Currently Japan puts its car manufacturers in Thailand for the distribution in Southeast Asia. “If they build a factory here, the car price will be cheap-

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Andi Tenrisessu in his report said Gema is a movement born from the anxiety and optimism towards poverty alleviation in Soppeng Regency.

“Although poverty in the re-gency is not that severe com-pared to other regions, but we want to accelerate the equa-tion and better prosperity for the society in Soppeng Regen-cy,” Tenrisessu said on Sunday (12/31) night at Watansoppeng.

The secretary added based on the data from the Soppeng Central Bureau of Statistics, the number of poverty in 2016 reached 8.45% of the total po-pulation in the regency fa-miliarly called Latemmamala Land.

Gema Soppeng 2018 was signed by Soppeng Regent Andi Kaswadi Razak, Soppeng Vice Regent Supriansah, together with the leaders of Forkopim-da and all Heads of Local Go-vernment Work Units (SKPD) in Soppeng Regency. (TPP)

er and there will be more people who can afford to buy it. More-over, East Java is the economic center of Eastern Indonesia with 120 million population,” Pakde Karwo added.

He also discussed about 40 Japanese companies who have the principle permit but have not realized their investment plan yet, reaching Rp2.5 trillion. “We told Masaki that we are ready to help if there is any obstacle.”

Pakde Karwo proposed to have a meeting with the 40 com-panies, accompanied by the Consul General, whether in Ja-pan or in East Java. Such a meeting was ever done with the result eight big Japanese com-panies expanded their business in East Java, one of which is PT Ajinomoto.

“Investing in East Java is guaranteed to be profitable. We guarantee the availability of land, sufficient electricity sup-ply, ease of licensing, and quali-fied workers,” he said.

Responding Pakde Karwo, Masaki said he would invite the leaders of major automotive companies to discuss further the possibility to set up a factory in East Java.

“We will also talk to the 40 companies whether they face any difficulty,” he added.

According to Masaki, Japan and East Java have established long-term cooperation, in cul-ture, education, social and hu-manity. Therefore, he said he is optimistic the cooperation in the economy will further strengthen the relationship. (DLK/TPP)

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the Bupati Award.She and 7 other award receiv-

ers also performed on the stage as part of New Year 2018 cele-bration held in Kendal Regency.

“We are also asked by Ken-dal Regent to teach waste man-agement in some other villages,” Imamatul was quoted by tri-bunnews.com as saying.

The Bupati Award is given in eight categories, namely art, culture, education, environ-ment, creative economic deve-lopment, social restoration and integrity, agriculture-fishery-food security, health, and qua-lity of life.

Regent Mirna Annisa also gave the CSR Award to 3 lo-cal SOEs/BUMD and 3 private

Kendal Regent Mirna Annisa at the end of the year present-ed the Bupati Award, witnessed by thousands of residents in the Kendal square on Sunday (12/31) night.

With a big smile on her face, Imamatul Kutsiah received the award. She and her aunt won one of the eight categories for the Bupati Award.

Both were rewarded for their efforts to spread the love to the environment.

“We teach the community, es-pecially the women in the com-munity groups of PKK, how to manage the waste better. Not only manage but also make the waste into other useful objects,” Imamatul said after receiving

Vice Governor of DKI Jakarta Sandiaga Uno has said that he intended to develop Puloga-dung as a digital-based economy area and con-nect it to the other economic growth centers in Jakarta.

“We discussed thoroughly just now about the state-owned Jakarta Industrial Estate Puloga-dung (JIEP). We want to make it a township, a digital-based economy area which is eco-green and linked to other growth centers in the city,” Sandiaga said after meeting with SOEs Minis-ter Rini Soemarno at the Bubur Kwang Tung, Jalan Pecenongan, Central Jakarta, on Mon-day (1/8).

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companies considered having contributed to the social prog-ress in Kendal.

Muryono, Head of Bupati Award Section, said this award aims to reward their services in promoting and developing Ken-dal.

“The award presentation is deliberately done in the Ken dal square so that the people can watch it. The hope is that it will motivate them to do the same,” said Muryono.

Kendal government also ce-lebrated the anniversary of Per-sik Kendal which coincidentally falls on January 1st.

Mirna congratulated the soc-cer club, the pride of Kendal people, for its anniversary. (TPP)

the estate will be carried out by the Pro-vincial Government of DKI with SOEs Mi-nistry. Through the digital-based develop-ment, the Pulogadung estate is expected to become a new center of economic growth in Jakarta.

“We believe with better cooperation, in the future the Pulogadung estate will be-come a new growth in Jakarta,” he said.

In the meeting, Sandiaga and Rini dis-cussed a number of issues, including the construction of several Transit Oriented Development (TOD) projects. They also dis-cussed about the plan of LRT development by PT Ratu Prabu Energi Tbk.

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The lack of appreciation that many people have over how their country came about before their life times is com-mon in most countries but particularly so in Indonesia. This is why the early chap-ters of S.D. Darmono’s book, Building a Ship While Sail-ing, when he talks about the Founding Fathers, is impor-tant to today’s younger gene-ration. I was sharply remind-ed of this again when I picked up a book about The Founda-tions of Scotland – from the earliest times to 1286, which was written 80 years by Dr Agnes Mure Mackenie.

In the preface she writes “History is more than a study of things past. It is a study of the roots of the present, of the seeds of the future. No man can guide present or future who forgets it, and one major cause of Scotland’s unhappy present (1930s) is that, though her sense of the past is still keen and vivid, she recalls it confusedly and in part. If she is to shape her future worthi-ly, that past must be recalled and understood, not as a se-ries of highly cultured stories but as a consecutive process of event.” This remains valid today and tomorrow, and can be applied to many emerging new nations.

In the case of Indonesia, there is a huge rich cultur-al history across the archi-pelago, much of it still need-ing enlightened scholarship. How ever, it is safe to say that History as a subject will bare-ly feature in today’s national school curriculum. Neverthe-less, a proper understand-ing of a nation’s history pro-vides the necessary glue for its foundation and how it per-ceives itself as it interacts with other nations and how it can help maintain peace among the commonwealth of nations, many still in a fractious state. Nearly every, if not every, na-tion that is deemed to be ma-ture and developed did not

achieve that condition without a lot of strife and soul search-ing over hundreds of years,

With modern systems of communication accelerating at a frightening speed for older generations, it is very easy for younger people to spend time thinking about their immedi-ate needs and forget the social graces from interacting with fellow human beings. Tak-ing ‘selfies’ is not a deep, seri-ous form of social interaction! (Subject for a debate? Where does analog fit in the future digital world?)

But the future is going to be even more challenging than the past, and how are we go-ing to appreciate our history if our education is lacking, and falls short of what we need to play our part in making the story of the future.

It is generally understood that infant brain development needs to be nurtured, with most responsibility falling on the parents, but the diffi-culty then lies in the abi lity of parents to recognise this and provide the necessary en-couragement, if they ae not adequately educated them-selves. It is said that the foun-dation of each of our beings is set in the first 5-7 years of our lives – the Jesuit man-tra was “give me the boy until he is 7, and I will give you the man”; by then, we should have learned 50% of our life skills and what we need for the rest. The very young brain, perhaps unwittingly, is like a sponge as it grows, absorbing what it sees and senses. Just watch today’s child with a smart phone or tablet!

However, there is a long tail across the Indonesian po-pulation. There are too many adults and children, who are deprived and do not have the opportunity to be able to de-velop their personalities to their full potential. Just sur-viving is enough and under-standing history for natio nal development – well that has

to be someone else’s problem! And where is education?

While infrastructure looms high, and correctly so, on the list of imperatives for govern-ment attention, the pauci-ty in the quality of education in too many locations is argu-ably even more important. The World Bank and several large monitoring institutions have assessed Indonesian educa-tion, especially at elementary and junior high levels, as one of the poorest in the world. Evidence of this can be seen across the archipelago, par-ticularly when moving away from administrative centres. The budget applied directly to the Education Ministry, IDR 419 trilllion in 2016, and some double that of 6 years earli-er, was not inconsiderable, but there is little sign of ex-penditure converting into an overall improvement in quali-ty. Some would even say that, while the number of children requiring good edcuation is increasing, the quality is de-clining and this raises anoth-er challenge in terms of the Indonesian workforce compet-ing with ASEAN counterparts in the years ahead.

There are still thousands of locations where little or no teaching is provided, and then of variable quality. The mat-ter is often exacerbated by the lack of access to electricity a problem which could be solved quickly in thousand of loca-tions by the installation of so-lar panels with small battery storage capability in school buildings. This would allow connection for more than half a day and the ability to allow computer hook up. Further, because there is also a dire shortage of qualified teach-ers, prepared lessons cover-ing the national curriculum and more, because the curri-culum is far from challenging for young eager minds, can be brought onto large monitoring screens and thus the quality of content assured. The class

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minder/ teacher can also learn.

We know this can be done from more than 19 years ex-perience on the East Bali Po-verty project where, for a mostly illiterate community of 17,000 people across 19 villag-es, the project yayasan had 6 schools built by the commu-nities themselves, with each powered through solar. In the beginning, most children were not at school and did not have proper access to one. Over the past ten years the project has taught an average of 300 chil-dren a year, and produced its first university graduates. E-very effort is made to expand the teaching beyond the na-tional curriculum and en-courage the natural talents of young minds They are also taught about their immediate natural environment and how to use it and appreciate it and, in this way they have learned to use the land to wi den the cultivation of crops and im-prove diets, teacning their parents in the process.

The solutions offered to quickly widen the access to school education of the huge mass of children currently deprived are not ‘rocket’ sci-ence and not expensive to car-ry out. What a difference this could make to the future of the country! Just a change in mindset and determination to win. Then the future leaders of the country can really ap-preciate the foundation of the nation that their forefathers fought for.

There are probably over 4 million thildren with IQs of 130 and above – gifted to ge-nius – and only a small frac-tion of those is having access to proper schooling.

lProfessor J Scott Younger OBE DEng(Hon), International Chancellor, Pre-sident University; Director Nusantara In-frastructure Tbk; Commissioner, East Bali Po-verty Project

Indonesian Tourism Wins ASEANTA 2018

To Boost Tourism, Bantaeng Regency Cooperates with PATA

The Indonesian tourism is entering the year 2018 with pride as it came out as the over-all champion of ASEANTA 2018 held in Chiang Mai, Thailand. From the 6 categories contest-ed, Indonesia managed to grab three awards and proved the dominance of Indonesian tour-ism in Southeast Asia.

The three awards are Best ASEAN Tourism Photo for “Melasty Ceremony” by Agung Prameswara, ASEAN New Tourism Attraction in the re-gion for “Surfing the Sand Dunes of Bantul, Yogyakar-ta” by Lintang Buana Tourism Services, and Best ASEAN Air-

lines Program for “Come Holi-day” by Garuda Indonesia.

Meanwhile, the BEST ASE-AN Cultural Preservation Ef-fort category went to Cambodia for “Sambor Prei Kuk Conser-vation Project”.

The Best ASEAN Travel Ar-ticle was won by Malaysia for “Seeking Sanctuary at the Land of Below the Wind” and the Best ASEAN Marketing & Promotional Program went to Singapore for “Singapore Air-lines Safety Video”.

Additionally, Indonesian tourism also received 15 other awards at the ASEAN Tourism Awards.

In the category of ASEAN Green Hotel Standard Award, the winners are Hyatt Regen-cy Yogyakarta, Prime Plaza Ho-tel, The Dharmawangsa Jakar-ta, Melia Purosani Yogyakarta and Turi Beach Resort Batam who took the award represent-ing Indonesia.

In the ASEAN MICE Ve nue Standard Award category, In-donesia was represented by Bali Nusa Dua Hotel, Raffles Jakarta, Four Season Hotel Ja-karta, The Trans Resort Bali and Ayana Midplaza Jakarta.

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ID42NER Holds Family Touring to Tanjung Lesung

Borobudur Temple to Become Cultural Art Performance Center in 2018

The Tourism Ministry has set out the tourist agenda for 2018, covered in the Calendar of Events 2018. In January, the Calendar of Events fall on 29 to 31 entitled Festival Indonesia Festival or Fest In Fest to pre-pare agenda for February.

“There are two events name-ly Kepeng Penyengat Island Fes-tival (Riau Islands) on February 14 to 18, and Festival Bau Nyale Mandalika Lombok on February 20,” said Tourism Minister Ari-ef Yahya in Jakarta on Tuesday (1/17).

Arief said every event will be used to promote the next one. So, the February events will be used to promote the various cul-

tural art performances in Boro-budur, Central Java, from March 6 to May 6. The visitors will be invited to witness the procession of Ruwat-Rawat Borobudur (tra-ditional maintenance ceremony) which this year will be the 15th edition.

Sucoro, Ruwat-Rawat Boro-budur 2018 organizer, said this procession aims to strengthen public awareness on tourism de-velopment in Borobudur Tem-ple. This annual event will com-mence with activities of Memetri Candi and Nguri-Uri Tradisi, which are the pre-activity. The main procession will be held in the Ringin Putih, Giritengah, and Gleyaran areas.

The procession will be fol-lowed by Sesaji Menoreh on March 7, featuring Kidung Kar-ma Wibangga in Tuksongo, then on March 10 art performances will be staged followed by Pitu-tur Luhur on March 13 at Wa-rung Info Jagat Cleguk.

“From 17 to 29 of March, the People’s Arts Festival will take place in several areas of Kle-dung, Tempuran, Cebuntan, Jambewangi, Tanggulangin and Ngluwar,” said Sucoro.

The detailed schedule of Ru-wat Rawat Borobudur 2018 events is in Kledung (March 17-18), Tempuran (March 19-20), Cebungan (March 21-22), Jam-bewangi (March 23-24), Tang-

ulinulin.comgulangin (March 25), Mad-jogondha Ngablak (March 26), and Ngluwar (March 27), while in Menteng an (March 28-29) in the form of Ri-tual Badhut Seja-ti and on March 31 Art Perfor-mance Cultural Dia logue at Ta-man Wisata Candi Borobudur (TWCB).

The opening of Ruwat Rawat Borobudur, coincided with the World Heritage Day celebration on April 18, will be filled with Festival Sanggar 2018 in Boro-budur Temple Hall B.

Prior to that, workshop of Tra-ditional Art will be held on April 4 at the Borobudur Conserva-tion Center. On April 7-11 the People’s Festival of Folk Arts will take place at TWCB with Kid-ung Karma Wibangga on (4/17), while Ngiwak Tradition will be held on April 25 and other stage performances will presented un-til April 28.

In May, Ruwat Rawat Boro-budur agenda begins with a se-minar (2/5), followed by ‘Moun-tain-City Activities for Cultural Heritage” (5/5) at the Lumbini Stage, TWCB.

Ruwat Rawat Borobudur will be closed on May 6, 2018 with a parade starting from TWCB Parking Lot going through Me-dangkamulan Street, Badrawa-ti Street, Gate 7 and Borobudur Temple.

“A number of cultural attrac-tions are ready to be enjoyed by tourists, ranging from Jama-san Ritual, Kai Cebungan alms, Mbah Ndoko Tomb alms, Bad-hut Sejati Menthengan Ritual, and Cultural Parade,” said Su-coro.

Ruwat-Rawat Borobudur was first held in 2003 by the com-munity of Warung Jaya Cle-guk Borobudur. “The activities of Ruwat-Rawat Borobudur aim to strengthen the awareness of tourism potential of Borobudur Temple,” he added. (GTR/TPP)

Bantaeng Regency and the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) signed a cooperation agreement on tourism develop-ment at the President Lounge Menara Batavia, Jakarta, on Friday (1/26).

The signing ceremony was at-tended by Bantaeng Regent Prof. Dr. Ir. H.M. Nurdin Abdullah, Head of Bantaeng Tourism Of-fice Subhan, President Director of PT Jababeka Tedjo Budianto Liman and CEO of PATA Indone-sia Chapter Poernomo Siswopra-setijo.

In his speech, Budianto Li-man said the cooperation hope-fully would increase the tour-ist visits and attract investors to invest in Bantaeng. “This is the follow-up of our visit several

months ago to Bantaeng Regen-cy, South Sulawesi. We are ready to support the tourism develop-ment in the region.”

Meanwhile, Regent Nurdin Abdullah expressed his grati-tude to Jababeka and PATA for the cooperation in developing Bantaeng Regency, especially on the tourism and in attracting foreign investors to invest.

“Hopefully this cooperation will be realized and of course we are grateful to Jababeka Group for its support,” he said.

According to Nurdin, Ban-taeng Regency used to be un-privileged region, but with a bet-ter governance in managing the abundant natural resources, in 10 years the regency has been improving significantly.

“Bantaeng is indeed one of the smallest regencies in South Su-lawesi, but we are grateful for having beautiful area from the beach to this plain. We manage all to the fullest. In 2008 Ban-taeng ranked 199 or a disad-vantaged area but 10 years later Bantaeng is no longer a lagging region,” he added.

Meanwhile CEO PATA Poer-nomo said he hoped the coope-ration between Bantaeng and PATA would generate the best re-sults in tourism and investment.

“We have been working to-gether with several regions that have tourism potentials. Hope-fully it will give the best results,” he said.

Established in 1951, the Paci-fic Asia Travel Association (PATA) is an internationally recognized nonprofit association as it acts as a catalyst for responsible tra-vel and tourism development to, from and within the Asia Paci fic region.

Members of PATA consist of 95 state tourism agencies, 25 inter-national airlines and airports, 108 hospitality organizations, 72 educational institutions, and hundreds of travel industry com-panies in Asia Pacific and be-yond. (TPP)

The Toyota Fortuner Club of Indonesia (ID42NER) has held a family touring to Tan-jung Lesung, Banten. The tour-ing was organized to strength-en the relationship and kinship among fellow members.

The first ID42NER touring in 2018 was participated in by

about 50 vehicles. The attrac-tive tourism site of Tanjung Lesung Beach Resort Banten was chosen as the final desti-nation.

“Banten was chosen as the location for the first ID42NER touring this year because Ban-ten is one of the favorite tour-

Tourist City Standard Award category, Indonesia was represented by Ban-dung, Surabaya and Banyu-wangi.

In the ASEAN Sustain-able Tourism Award catego-ry was won by Nglanggeran Tourism Village, Yogyakarta and The Nusa Dua, Bali.

The awards were handed over by Indonesian Tourism Minister Arief Yahya at the closing ceremony of ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) 2018 at the Shangri-La Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

According to him, the ASEANTA Awards for Excel-lence is very important in encouraging tourism play-ers in the ASEAN member countries.

“The awards have 3 meanings, which I often re-fer to as 3C. The first C is improving the Confidence of nation, raising the Credibi-lity of country, and serving as Calibration to show how wonderful Indonesia is. How far we have met the interna-tional standards. It turned out we are competitive,” said Arief Yahya on Friday (1/26). (LPT6/TPP)

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To Attract More Visitors, KIJA Will Add Hotel Rooms to 10,000 in Tanjung Lesung

Triponyu: Solo Tour Marketplace Offers Local Solutions

overseas, to visit Tanjung Lesung. KIJA still opens the opportunity for other par-ties to invest in and support the development of Tanjung Lesung which has become one of the 10 National Tour-ism Strategic Areas (KSPN).

According to S.D. Dar-mono, to develop Tanjung Lesung to its optimal poten-tials, it would need a huge in-vestment of more than Rp10 trillion. He said that his company will add the public facilities and entertainment spots in the tourism area.

“We have to build and build, add hotel rooms, build more hotels, add public fa-cilities, build a golf course, Marina, shopping mall, a zoo, as well as painting gal-lery and cultural center. All should continue to be added up,” he concluded. (IND/TPP)

the region, to help the small business community, to cre-ate self-employment, and to increase awareness of the diversity of culture and na-tural beauty of Indonesia.

“What makes us different is because we are the first startup that carries the con-cept of feel the experience with locals. So far, the tour packages offered are very conventional that we don’t think interesting, exciting, and fun enough,” said Adit.

“Local people know bet-ter the area, so as tour guides they can make the tour more interesting while helping the economy of lo-cal community. In Triponyu, everyone can become local guides and their reputation will be determined by their creativity in creating unique tour package,” he added.

Triponyu, Adit further said, is open for investment and cooperation with oth-er parties and targets to grow significantly year to year. “We need investment to build infrastructure and carry out our next plan. Ca-pex will be mostly focused on the infrastructure deve-lopment. We will also seek cooperation with third par-ties to improve our services.”

He also said that the com-pany targets to increase the number of tourist visits through Triponyu by 5% in the first year and will grow further by 17% in the fifth year. “In the meantime, our target for gross profit is be-tween 27% to 30% per year.” (DAILY/TPP)

The management com-pany of Special Econom-ic Zone Tanjung Lesung, PT Kawasan Industri Jababeka Tbk (KIJA), will increase the number of hotel rooms there to 10,000 in the next three years.

“We believe the target of 10,000 rooms in three years will be achieved. We need the technology from China since it can build 1 tower of 100 floors in 15 days. We have to cooperate with Japan, Chi-na, Europe and Indonesian parties as well. Jababeka cannot do it all alone, must be together,” said Chair-man of Jababeka Group S.D. Darmono in a press confe-rence in Jakarta on Thurs-day (1/4/1).

The additional rooms are expected to attract more tourists, either local and

The Indonesian tour-ism industry has welcomed a new digital startup from Solo that offers local solu-tions for travelers, named Triponyu. Founded by Agustinus Adhitya Pramo-no (CEO), Onny Suman-tri (COO), Samuel Joshep (CTO), and Alfonsus Aditya Prabowo (CFO & CBDO), the company was launched in July 2016.

According to Alfonsus Aditya Prabowo (Adit), Tri-ponyu is basically a busi-ness platform that gives travelers and local guides access to connect to each other. The local guides can offer their tour packages through Triponyu. Adit said it would create unique and customized tour for every traveler.

“In Triponyu, the lo-cal guides can be travelers and travelers can be local guides. These local guides are hosts located in a tourist destination able to provide attractive tour packages. They will arrange tour pack-ages with their own prices. To become a host, there will be a process of data verifi-cation and tour package checking to provide certain-ty, security, and comfort for the travelers,” Adit said.

Triponyu’s vision of con-necting people and happi-ness is expected to provide an opportunity for everyone to have friendships and ex-perience an unforgettable tour.

Meanwhile its mission is to utilize the potentials of

ist destinations in Indonesia. Banten is famous for its natu-ral beauty, cultural richness, as well as the beauty of the beach and its culinary,” said Vice President of ID42NER Duta Aerlangga.

“Besides, Banten is also known for its adventurous

landscapes so we can prove that Fortuner is a powerful and reliable SUV vehicle in its class. So, hopefully more and more people are interested to drive it,” he added.

According to touring Chair-man Jhony Nyamcun, the ac-tivity has become a tradition for ID42NER clubs all over Indo-nesia. Every activity always in-cludes some things that bring positive influence, meaning in realizing various club agenda, ID42NER is always committed to contribute in the form of so-cial awareness to the surround-ing environment and society.

“This event is no different. We are doing a social service with the help of members who finance the occasion of inviting the orphaned children to enjoy the beauty of one of the beach-es in Banten as well as giving away gifts and donation from the members of ID42NER to them,” Jhony said.

Toyota Fortuner Club of In-donesia (ID42NER) was found-ed on May 13, 2007 with 1,500 members across Indonesia consisting of 4 regions and 18 chapters. (DTK/TPP)

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Infrastructure Complete, Jababeka Prepares New Lot for Investors

Standard Chartered Bank launched the Global Focus - Economic Outlook 2018 report on Monday (1/22) during the an-nual Global Research Briefing, attended by the government re-presentatives and company lead-ers at the Mandarin Hotel, Ja-karta.

Deputy Governor of Bank In-donesia Perry Warjiyo, Execu-tive Director of Indonesian Po-litical Indicator Burhanudin Muhtadi, Head of ASEAN Eco-nomic Research Standard Char-tered Bank Edward Lee, Stan-dard Chartered Bank’s Head of Thematic Research Madhur Jha, Standard Chartered Bank Indonesia Chief Economist Al-dian Taloputra, Asia FX Strate-gist of Standard Chartered Di-vya Devesh, and Head of Rates and Credit Research of Standard Chartered Bank Kaushik Rudra became speakers in the event.

With the theme of Beware of The Dog, based on the global re-search the report highlights the global, regional and national economic growth as well as geo-political events.

Edward Lee said the glo-bal economic growth this year is expected to rise by 3.9 per-cent year-on-year compared to

2017, while infrastructure de-velopment and government-run structural economic policies will continue to support the growth in ASEAN.

Regarding the Indonesian economy, the bank predicts it will continue to grow driven by the government infrastructure projects, recovery in private in-vestments due to improved in-vestment climate and exports.

“The policies in safeguarding the inflation and boosting the purchasing power through in-creased social spending, subsi-dies, and village funds will curb the weakening consumption of the private sector,” Aldian said, adding the investment in the pri-vate sector is expected to play a more active role this year, gi-ven the infrastructure spending would only increase by 6 percent in 2018.

Global Research Briefing is a platform where stakeholders - governments, industry leaders and business people can inter-act and gain the latest insights that can be an important consid-eration in taking strategic steps in business and collaboration.

The key points about Indone-sia’s economy in Global Research Report - Beware of the Dog:

Standard Chartered Bank: Indonesia Achieves Momentum Amidst Moderate Economic Growth

As a pioneer of private indus-trial estates in Indonesia, Jaba-beka (KIJA) is supported with complete infrastructures. There are currently more than 1,650 multinational companies from 30 countries as the tenants of Jababeka Industrial Estate in Cikarang, Bekasi, with 730,000 workers and 10,000 expatri-ates.

“For the investors, the Jaba-beka Industrial Estate is now offering a new phase of stage 8 where 20 ha of land plots are ready to use at the beginning of this year,” said Rudy Subra-ta, General Manager of Indus-trial Sales & Marketing Dept of

PT Grahabuana in Jakarta on Thursday (1/25), as reported by Industry.co.id.

According to Rudy, the stage 8 will cover 100 ha with the size of land plots starting from 8,000 m2. In addition to the land plots, KIJA also offers multi-purpose industrial buildings.

The newest product launched in 2018 is Jababeka BizPark 2 to continue the success of the Ja-babeka Bizpark 1 that has been sold out in 2017. “This is a mul-tipurpose and modern building sized at 162 square meters with the prices starting from Rp1.8 billion,” he said.

Rudy added larger industrial

1. GDP growth is expected to increase 5.2% y/y in 2018 from 5.1% y/y in 2017 due to stronger investment and ex-ports and stable private con-sumption.

2. The government tends to refine policies to support household purchasing po-wer, while keeping infra-structure spending a top pri-ority. The fiscal deficit target of 2.2% of GDP will face risks due to the potential shortage of revenues.

3. Inflation is expected to be slightly higher at 4% y/y in 2018 due to normalizing food inflation and higher fuel prices.

4. A manageable inflation, C/A deficit, and a weak USD en-vironment leave room for BI to keep interest rates un-changed this year.

5. Rupiah is reviewed as Neu-tral; sustained inflows may compensate for the widening current account deficit.

6. Political factors tend to be a more prominent consider-ation in policy-making du-ring the electoral years. But historically, there is lack of political risks to economic performance. (TPP)

Kota Jababeka has been developed since 1989 on 5,600 hectares of land area, making it the largest township in Southeast Asia. Jababeka builds and operates its own power plant, dry port, water treatment plant, wastewater treatment facility, roads, high

speed connectivity for communication, and also provides gas supply.

buildings are also offered, like the Premium Standard Factory Building (SFB) with the size of 1,035 m2 on 1,426 m2 of land plot and the prices starting from Rp13 billion. The SFB is suitable for manufacturing, electronics and automotive industries.

There is also a building with 3 in 1 concept called the Three in One Building (TOB) which can function as office, ware-house, and workshop at once. The size of building is 453 m2 on a land plot starting from 540 m2. The TOB is offered at Rp4.5 billion.

“For home industry, the Sup-porting Industrial Building

(SIB) will be suitable with the size of building at 155 m2 and the land plot at 411 m2, while the prices starting from Rp3 bil-lion,” said Rudy.

The complete facilities in Kota Jababeka make it ideal for in-vestors to run their businesses. After 27 years, there are more than 1,650 multinational com-panies operating there. The big companies such as Mattel, Uni-lever, Samsung, LOreal, Kao, AkzoNobel, Kawan Lama, and many others have contributed to convince the investors to invest in Indonesia.

“The development in the Ja-babeka Industrial Estate shows

a very good progress. This can be seen on the complete com-mercial facilities and a wide va-riety of property products for both residential and investment in KIJA. This is certainly ac-cording to the long-term plan of the company to make Kota Ja-babeka Cikarang as an inte-grated environmentally friend-ly township,” said Director of PT Jababeka Tbk, Sutedja S. Dar-mono.

Therefore, he added, the Ja-babeka Industrial Estate which has turned into a self-sufficient township will continue to be de-veloped to keep it growing to at-tract more investors. (TPP)

First Stage Sold Out, Jababeka

Residence Markets Kawana

Golf Residence Apartment Phase

TwoAfter successfully Sold Out

in the first stage of marketing sales in the end of 2017 with a record of property selling price at Rp28 million/m2 in East Jakar-ta, PT Grahabuana Cikarang as the developer of Jababeka Resi-dence has re-launched the top-class apartment of Kawana Golf Re sidence phase two.

“Seeing the extraordinary res-ponse from the buyers, we re-open the opportunity for poten-tial investors to buy Kawana Golf Residence phase two,” said Pre-sident Director of PT Graha Bua-na Cikarang, Sutedja S. Darmo-no, in a Media Gathering & Press Conference on Jababeka Re-sidence Outlook 2018 & Grand Product Knowledge of Kawana Golf Residence Phase Two in Ja-karta on Tuesday (1/16).

Sutedja said, in the first phase

in December 2017, 130 units of the premium product were sold out; from the initial target of 6 floors, it turned out 10 floors were sold.

“This is very extraordinary, we create a new breakthrough, a new property market in Indone-sia. Amid the slow market con-dition, it was sold well. Hopeful-ly the phase two will be sold out too,” he said.

The high interest of buyers, according to him, cannot be se-parated from the consumer con-fidence in Jababeka Residence property products. Besides any project always completed on time, the capital gain offered with the yield of 12% per year is also a factor for the success of the sales of Kawana Golf Resi-dence Apartment.

Additionally, the extensive

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development of infrastruc-ture in the East Jakarta area such as the elevated toll road to be completed in 2019, MRT in 2019, and LRT from Jakar-ta to Cikarang will boost the investment value of Jababeka Residence property products.

To meet the target of the second phase sales while pro-viding convenience for poten-tial investors, Jababeka Re-sidence has cooperated with leading property marketing agents in Indonesia such as ERA, Century21, Ray White, LJ Hooker, Harcourts and PROMEX to marketing the Kawana Golf Residence.

“We are targeting the 104 units will be Sold Out in Feb-ruary 2018 with estimated sales value of Rp150 billion,” Sutedja said. (IND/TPP)

PT AKR Corporindo Tbk to Build 350 Gas Stations in 10 Years

PT AKR Corporindo Tbk plans to build 350 gas sta-tions (SPBU) for the next 10 years from now.

President Director of AKR Corporindo, Haryanto Adikoesoemo, said that the installation of 350 gas sta-tions will be done in coope-ration with the British com-pany Bibby Offshore.

“The plan is AKR will ope-rate 350 SPBUs in coopera-tion with British company Bibby Offshore in the next 10 years,” Haryanto said at the Ministry of Energy and Mi-neral Resources, Jakarta, on Monday (1/8).

Haryanto said in the first stage of the project, 17 gas stations will be built in 2018.

“This year we will operate 17 gas stations first,” he said.

Regarding the location, Haryanto added, the 17 new gas stations will be built in Jakarta, Surabaya and Bandung.

As for the oil fuels (BBM) to be sold, according to Haryan-to, will be the RON 92 which is equivalent to pertamax, and biosolar.

“Only biosolar and RON 92 in Jakarta, Surabaya, Ban-dung. Both are non-subsi-dized fuels,” he said.

The government has ap-pointed AKR Corporindo and Pertamina as the distribu-tors for the subsidized fuels of premium and solar (diesel fuel). The government gave 5 years contract of distribution to provide certainty in invest-ment for the investors who have to build gas stations in the remote areas. (DTK/TPP)

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PLTB Sidrap I Ready to Operate

After 50 Years Managed by Foreign Company, Mahakam Block Finally Taken Over by Pertamina

After a long time controlled by Total, the Mahakam Block has finally been taken over by Pertamina. According to Secretary General of Cen-tral Executive Board (DPP) PDI P Hasto Kristiyanto, the move will strengthen the so-vereignty of domestic energy.

Hasto said his party be-lieved Jokowi’s government will not need to make a de-cision to raise the fuel prices due to the thorough revamp-ing of the energy sector.

“The steps to make the ener -gy sector more efficient and competitive, especially on oil and gas, have shown an encouraging result. To avoid unnecessary political pressure, the fuel prices do not need to be increased, es-pecially with the Pertamina’s

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growing potential profits,” Hasto said recently.

The belief was based on the success of President Jokowi’s government in strengthening the national energy sovereign-ty. The national energy policy is now increasingly prioritizing the national interests, through more just business agreements in the oil and gas sector.

The various policy revisions made by Energy and Mineral Re-sources Minister Ignasius Jonan have also increased the invest-ment attractiveness in that sec-tor which affects the livelihood of the people greatly.

“The operation of the oil-rich Mahakam Block by Pertamina since January 1, 2018 not only reinforces the national capabili-ty in managing the upstream oil and gas sector, but also shows a

The Wind Power Plant (PLTB) of Sidrap I will be operation-al soon after an interconnec-tion trial with PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (Persero) net-work showed a good result. A total of 20 out of planned 30 wind turbines and a substation have been ready to be connect-ed with the PLN network.

Each turbine has a capaci-ty of 2.5 Megawatt (MW) or 50 MW in total for the 20 ready turbines. This wind farm is ex-pected to support the national supply of electricity.

Energy and Mineral Re-sources (ESDM) Minister Ig-natius Jonan said he support-ed the operation of the Sidrap wind power plant. Jonan said

the electricity tariff from PLTB Sidrap is affordable. The ta riff of the first stage is 11 cents US dollar per kWh flat. Then for the second stage, he will nego-tiate again.

“The tariff of PLTB stage one is 11 cents US dollar per kWh flat; how about the second stage? We will negotiate again, I will ask the price to be lower,” said Jonan in Jakarta on the official website of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resourc-es on Monday (12/8).

Sidrap I is the first commer-cial wind power plant (PLTB) in Indonesia. Once the project with an investment of US$150 million or approximately Rp2 trillion starts operating by PT

significant progress towards na-tional energy sovereignty,” Has-to added.

He appreciated the govern-ment through all levels of the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Special Task Force (SKK Migas) and Pertamina for the breakthrough and their hard works.

By controlling the oil block, Pertamina’s assets increase to Rp122 Trillion, Pertamina’s re-venue certainly will increase as well as its profit. The increase in Pertamina’s assets and profit will support the SOE financial-ly in running the country’s po-litical economy. PDI Perjuangan, Hasto said, is proud that now the Mahakam Block is managed by Indonesian people. (AKR/TPP)

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UPC Sidrap Bayu Energi, it is estimated to be able to supply about 70,000 households in South Sulawesi.

As it is known, Sidrap PLTB is located in the hilly area of Mattirosari Village and Lainu-ngan, Watangpulu Subdis-trict, Sidenreng Rappang Re-gency (Sidrap), South Sulawesi, whose wind has the speed of 7 meters per second at a height of 80 meters.

The total number of turbines to be installed is 30, each has a capacity of 2.5 MW with the height of 80 meters. The tur-bine is Class IIA with the pro-peller 57 meters long, bringing the total height of the turbine pole to 137 meters. (MTR/TPP)

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Pelni Logistics, a subsidiary of PT Pelni (Persero), targets to earn profit at Rp49 billion in 2018 or an increase from Rp45 billion in 2017, considering the national lo-gistics is predicted to grow well in the upcoming years.

“Yes, that is our target,” said Pelni Logistics President Director Suharyanto in Jakarta on Sun-day (1/7).

That target, according to him, will be achieved by increasing the dry bulk loading and unloading as well as cooperating with other state-owned enterprises.

“The dry bulk loading and unloading will grow positively, thanking to the “maritime high-way” (short-sea shipping) pro-gram launched in November 2015 which has improved the distribution in the eastern Indo-nesia,” Suharyanto said.

He added the company’s busi-ness development is still wide open with the occupancy rate of Pelni’s cargo ships is still about 70 percent today.

Suharyanto also said he will increase the loading and unload-ing activities from non-captive sector of coal and other general cargoes as much as 5.3 million tons this year.

Pelni Logistics Targets Profit of Rp49 Billion in 2018

“That’s a significant rise from only 1.8 million tons in 2016,” he said.

Pelni Logistics, established on March 31, 1986 under the name of PT Sarana Bandar Nasional, started to provide shipment ser-vices using the ships owned by its holding company and others.

The services include the load-ing and unloading of goods from and to the ships (stevedoring), removing and transporting the goods from the pier to the ware-house and vice versa (cargo-doring), as well as receiving and delivering the goods from the warehouse to the addressed re-cipient (receiving delivery).

The cargoes shipped by the company include containers, gen-eral cargo, bulk fertilizer, cement, vehicles and heavy equipment.

The company also serves load-ing/unloading bagged cargo such as rice, fertilizer and flour, as well as palletized cargo like plywood and ceramics.

Loading and unloading of dry bulk such as coal and nickel, as well as liquid bulk such as palm oil (CPO) are also served by the company. It even serves door-to-door transportation services to support the main business.

In fact, since 2013 the compa-ny has established two subsidiar-ies running multimodal and port transportation business, and cur-rently is developing its distribu-tion channels under the brand of Pelni Mart.

Pelni Logistics also plans to in-crease the number of containers to 1,200 from 980 right now.

The company has intensified its cooperation with Haka Aston, Pos Logistics, Pupuk Indonesia, and Semen Indonesia.

“Since August 2017 we coope-rate with Semen Indonesia by shipping its cement from Makas-sar Port to Pomako Port in Timi-ka,” Suharyanto said, adding that together with PT Perusahaan Perdagangan Indonesia, Pelni Lo-gistics shipped tens of tones of staple goods to Wamena Regency in Papua to be sold at 25 percent below the market price as target-ed by the government.

Pelni Logistics booked Rp270 billion revenue in 2017. It has provided online services to facili-tate the customers.

“The application is also expect-ed to increase the contribution of subsidiaries to the parent com-pany by 15-20 percent in 2018,” said Suharyanto. (ANT/TPP)

The Ministry of Trans-portation plans to reduce the Non-Tax State Revenue (PNBP) tariffs for the logis-tics sector early this year.

At first the government will conduct a pilot project in Tanjung Priok Port as it accommodates 50% of the total of national logistics.

Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said the tariff reduction aimed to accelerate the improve-ment in the ease of doing business (EoDB) in Indo-nesia to be more compe-titive. The Transportation Ministry has been focus-ing on the three matters to support it, namely the use of online applications, the reduction of tariffs and time.

“We must reduce the

PNBP Tariffs for Logistics Down Early this Year

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tariffs, but it should be done cautiously. We have agreed to lower the tariffs, both corpo-rate and non-tax revenues, so that the figure will be more competitive. If there is a dif-ference it’s not that big,” he said at the Coordinating Min-istry for Economic Affairs on Monday (1/15).

Unfortunately, Budi re-fused to say the exact reduc-tion will be, given he has to wait for approval from the Ministry of Finance. Hopeful-ly the tariff reduction will in-crease the volume of transac-tions, he said.

Regarding the EoDB rank, Budi said he did not set an ex-act target. The most important thing to him is to improve the quality of service so that the rank will certainly increase.

To reduce time, according

to Budi, online applications should be used more to make the delivery of goods more ef-fective and easy.

The government has pro-vided the facilities but are not utilized maximally, he said, adding that they will be im-proved to attract more users.

In the meantime, about the three-day dwelling time at the port Budi said 30%-40% of goods still stay longer due to various reasons.

Most of the cases are be-cause the inspection is unfin-ished yet, while some others are because the owners have yet to find any warehouse to store or buyers. To deal with the problems, Budi has asked the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs to synergize the collaboration among the related parties. (BSN/TPP)

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Shinta Dhanuwardoyo Encourages Indonesian Arts Exhibition Go International Through E-Gallery

KOWAS 2018 Anniversary, Panel Discussion and Jack Ma’s Wisdoms

The world-class Indonesian Arts Exhibition (IAE) was offi-cially opened by Land and Spa-tial Planning Minister Sofyan Djalil accompanied by Found-er and Chairman of Jababe-ka Group S.D. Darmono on Wednesday (1/17). The event run for five days from January 17 to 21, 2018 in Jababeka Conven-tion Center, Cikarang.

In her written statement, Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PT Bubu Krea-si Perdana (bubu.com) Shinta Dhanuwardoyo said, “This event brings out the legacy of Indone-sian artists’ phenomenal works which have been forgotten for long as if they did not exist. One of my favorite maestros is Af-fandi with his famous works of Potret Diri (Self Portrait) and To-peng Topeng Kehidupan (Masks

of Life).”Shinta said that although she

has been working as Tech/Di-gital Entrepreneur for 22 years, but her background is architec-ture so that she has a high ap-preciation to the works of arts, especially by the domestic ar-tists.

Unfortunately, amid the ra-pid development of information technology, their phenomenal works have never been promoted through the social media.

Indonesia has many good and powerful painters recognized by the international communi-ty but in their own country they seem to be forgotten and not even come up in people’s conver-sation. According to Shinta, the event can be a momentum to see and appreciate their works.

Shinta has asked the Chair-

Jack Ma’s phenomenal fi-gure has made KOWAS to choose him as the topic of this year’s anniversary. Founded on January 18, 2009, the com-munity of senior entrepreneurs

man Jababeka and the Indone-sian Arts Exhibition to also set up E-Gallery which publishes works of the maestros, so that their paintings can be enjoyed by wider communities world-wide.

“With the current sophisticat-ed digital platform and the ease of social media, we all can more easily share the works of Indone-sian maestros to be enjoyed by anyone and anywhere,” she add-ed.

According to her, the techno-logy development must be uti-lized to make it easy for anyone to see, admire and enjoy any-where and anytime the works of Indonesian maestros through a digital platform like E-Gallery or E-Museum.

“So, it will provide access to people all over the world to the

at pension ages but still active-ly working holds an event in every 2 months.

The event on Saturday (1/20) was to celebrate its 9th anniversary at Kalbis Insti-

paintings, while promoting the name of Indonesia to the inter-national community. It also to prove that the art works of Indo-nesian artists are as good as the others in the world,” Shinta said.

Indonesian Arts Exhibition displayed paintings by Indo-nesian maestros, hundreds of years old ceramics from China, NU gallery, Ancol artists, super-selected bonsais and humanoid from Jakarta Old City.

The exhibition was held in collaboration with the Study Program of DKV (Visual Com-munication Design) of President University. It also featured the President University Student Or-chestra, the Marching Band of the boarding high school of SMA Presiden, and various dances by the students of SMP/SD Pre-siden. (TPP)

tute Pulo Mas Jakarta, pre-senting the panelists of Dr. Boenjamin Setiawan, found-er of Kalbe Group; Dr. AB Su-santo, founder of the Jakarta Consulting Group; and Mr. In-

In 2030 Indonesia to Become 5th Largest Economy in the World

Communications and In-formatics Minister Rudian-tara has called on the in-dustry players to anticipate the disruptive innovation in industrial development.

“It is not the technology but the power of thinking that utilizes the technology. The technology itself is only an enabler, what changes is the way of thinking. So, tell people and talents to always find new ways that can make their business resi lience against the com-petition,” the minister said in the Event of CEO Gath-ering 2018: 15 Years of PFI Building Competitiveness-Anticipating Disruptive In-novation in Industrial De-velopment at Balai Kartini Jakarta on Thursday (1/11).

According to Rudiantara, there are several technolo-gies that can be used as an enabler such as advanced robotics, artificial intelli-gence, Internet of Things,

cloud computing, big data analytics, 3D printing, and digital payment systems.

“The year 2030 will be-come the benchmark, be-cause we will get a de-mographic bonus. Our economy will 2.5 times the current economy and Indo-nesia will be the 5th largest economy in the world. The most important thing is how to change our mindset while looking for new processes. All the companies with mo-nopolistic and oligopolis-tic styles will be disrupted by the way of thinking,” he added.

Minister Rudiantara also said that currently there is a shift in the Indonesian economy. “Our economy shifted to services, while the behaviors of our young peo-ple are changing too. Now the young people rarely buy new clothes, they prefer lei-sure like watching movies and traveling.” (TPP)

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ing a company/organization today. With the development of health technology, the hu-man age becomes longer. Therefore, in a company some-times there are 4 - 5 gene-rations with different traits and thoughts. There are old-er generation (born before In-dependence Day), baby boomer generation (1946-1964), gene-ration x (1965-1976), genera-tion y (1977-1997) and genera-tion z (1998-2010). Surely, it’s challenging to manage such a company to run fast, efficient and effective in the current era of competition.

Closing the panel discus-sion, Erik Tapan was asked to share his experiences in run-ning his online store. As we all know, one of the starting points of Jack Ma’s company comes from e-commerce or market-

dra Gunawan, Commissioner of Gramedia Group.

In his speech, Chairman of KOWAS Mr. Indra Gunawan ex-plained about the uniqueness of Jack Ma who has not been widely known yet. He likes to practice meditation/yoga with the position of inversion/sir-sasana. Maybe because Jack Ma gets used to look the world from different angle than most people. That’s why his think-ing is often out of the box.

Dr. Boenjamin Setiawan, in his presentation said in prin-ciple he agreed with what be-came Jack Ma’s inspirational values. He did not agree only in one thing that when getting old, people must stop working and start to have fun. For Dr. Boen, working is a pleasure.

Dr. AB Soesanto highlight-ed the complexities of manag-

place. His advice to the par-ticipants (mostly young people and students) was to act im-mediately. Without action they will go nowhere. Quoting Jack Ma, he said young age should not be easily to give up, when falling just get up.

After the discussion, the participants were welcomed to taste the dishes that can be cooked according to the genes. It’s true, the food ingredients can be adjusted to the gene-tic condition of each person, so that the body will be healthier and not easy to get sick.

During the event, various health checks were given for free, including the examina-tion on body age, skin health, cholesterol and stress level.

A big number of participants were going home with a door prize. (TPP)

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Entrepreneur University, What is The Measurement?Many higher education ins-

titutions in Indonesia claims their institutions as Entrepre-neur University. However, if being asked what are the in-dicators towards the claims, the answer is still vague. One of the most popular indicator used is using the total amount of university graduates that becomes an enterpreneur. But, how many?

Referring to some abroad universities, the total amount is quite high. According to Fi-nancial Times (2015), there are 46% MBA alumni from Babson College in the Unit-ed States open their business right after they graduate. The number is increasing three times since 2012 which was only 17%.

The same situation is also occur in other higher educa-tion institutions. For instance, in Ipade Business School in Mexico City, Mexico, 46% of its graduate build start-up busi-ness. It has been increased by 70% compared to 2012 which was only 6%. Or in Stanford’s Graduate School of Business right after graduate, 34% of the alumni (14% in 2012) open their business.

Same thing goes with Har-vard Business School (28% in 2015 increased by 6% from 2012), Oxford (27% – 5%), and some other universities. In conclusion, average num-ber of alumni who set up their own business since 2012 un-til 2015 grow more than three times.

Is this the indicator of an Entrepreneur University? Or is there any other parame-

ter that can be used to mea-sure how far a university de-velop its potency to innovate the entrepreneurship? To an-swer some of the questions, University of Gloucestershire (UoG), England, collaborat-ed with Pre-sident University (PresUniv) to hold a workshop which discuss this matter. The topic is “Growing Indone-sia – A Tri angular Approach (GITA)”.

A Workshop which was held in Celecton Hotel, Ci-karang, West Java, on 7 – 12 December 2017, involved by seven higher education insti-tutions from Indonesia and three from Europe. They are; Universitas Padjajaran, Ban-dung; Universitas Brawijaya and STIE Malangkucecwara

from Malang, East Java; Uni-versitas Negeri Semarang, Semarang, Central Java; Uni-versitas Ahmad Dahlan and Universitas Islam Indonesia from Yogyakarta; Dublin Ins-titute of Technology, (Ireland); Fachhochschule des Mittel-stands (Germany); The Uni-versity of Innsbruck (Austria).

According to Adhi Setyo Santoso, Director of Setsail Biz Accel, a business incu-bator under PresUniv, “GITA can be used to maintain the capacity of students, alumni, lecturera, and civitas acade-mica of the university in de-veloping Entrepreneurial Uni-versity. This is important for higher education institutions and other organizations in or-der to face the rapid and dis-

Achievements of Yoga Rivaldi, Student with Perfect GPA of 4.00Yoga was reported winning his first award in a science de-bate at Diponegoro Universi-ty two years ago. The following year, he was sent as a delegate at the Indonesia-Malaysia vet conference, 2nd winner of na-tional technology debate com-petition at Kalimantan Insti-tute of Technology, delivering a scientific paper at the Program Committee of ASEAN Islam-ic Economic Summit in Kua-la Lumpur, participating in the scientific work of International Paper Competition Program of Veterinary and Animal Scienc-es in Japan, 3rd Winner of Na-tional Scientific Competition at Hasanuddin University, and fi-nalist of Top 60 Best Youth In-novation at National Student

Scientific Week (Pimnas).His last achievement was

being sent to Taiwan to pro-mote his scientific paper. He seems to always be successful, in fact Yoga also experienced some failures. But he never gives up, rising again while in-trospecting himself. Yoga then remembered the message of his Qur’an teacher saying, ‘If our worship is good, our rela-tionship with God is good, God willing all our businesses is good’.

The student, who became the Institute Ambassador (DI), started to improve his rela-tionship with God by praying diligently and recognized the changes that follow. “Alham-dulillah, after improving the

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Yoga Rivaldi is a student of the Faculty of Veterinary Me-dicine, Bogor Institute of Agri-culture (IPB) who once scored a perfect GPA of 4.00. Thanks to his achievements, the label of ‘outstanding student’ is pre-sented by the institution that gave him the scholarship.

The recipient of Regio nal Representative Scholarship (BUD) is indeed known for his outstanding achievements. He won many titles both from na-tional and international com-petitions. Every year Yoga seeks chances to score new achievements. So, it’s no won-der if a series of awards has been collected by him.

Published on the IPB homepage on Thursday (1/4),

Ruangguru Founder: Received Scholarship as Student of SMA Presiden in the Past, Now in Cooperation with President University to Select

Students of Rp66 Billion Scholarship Receivers presidentpost.com

President University is pre-paring a scholarship fund of Rp66 billion for 1,440 graduates of general high and vocation-al schools to study at President University.

The university is cooperating with a technology-based edu-cation service provider, Ruang-guru, for online selection of the scholarship receiver students.

The MoU on the coopera-tion was signed at the Presi-dent Lounge, Batavia Tower, Ja-karta, on Wednesday (1/10) by President University Rector Jony Haryanto and CEO of Ruang-guru Adamas Belva, attended by Founder of President Univer-sity S.D. Darmono, Chairman of the Presidential Foundation Prof.

Budi Susilo Soe pandji and his staff.

In this partnership, Ruang-guru as a provider of educa-tional services already used by 6 million students in Indonesia will be the exclusive organizer to conduct online test to select the pros pective receivers of Pre sident University scholarship. The on-line exam will be used by XII graders to compete for over 150 full scholarships and thousands of partial scholarships.

S.D. Darmono in his speech said, “The most important edu-cation is practice education, you can study how to swim for 10 years to get Phd degree, but if you never swim then you can-not swim.”

According to him, the develop-ment of industrial estates is an answer to make school gradu-ates able to work in industry.

“I am very proud Belva studied at SMA (High School) Presiden, the first batch graduate. They (Belva and Isman) are young In-donesian leaders who will change the educational landscape in In-donesia,” S.D. Darmono added.

Responding to S.D. Darmono, Belva said, “My 3 years in SMA Presiden and lived in the dormi-tory had shaped me into like this. I got a full scholarship to stay, eat and uniform for free. After gra-duating from the school, I got a scholarship to study in Singa-pore, then worked at Mckinzey and Presidential Work Unit.

I just got another dual deg-ree scholarship at Harvard and Stanford and I’m the first Indo-nesian to get the dual degree. It all only possible thanks to your services, Mr. S.D. Darmono and others.”

Belva added, “Now we have 400 employees with offices in Jakarta, Jogja, Medan, Sema-rang and others. We are partner-ing with local governments in 32 provinces and 300 cities and re-gencies. We will coordinate with them how the selection for receiv-ers of scholarship worth Rp66 billion from the President Uni-versity can be held in every pro-vince.”

According to him, the online selection opens the opportunity to all students in Indonesia, both in big cities and remote areas to

get into the good and quality university.

The online selection pro-vides major studies that can be selected such as account-ing, business administra-tion, management, informa-tion technology, information systems, industrial engineer-ing, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, de-velopment techniques, inter-national relations, commu-nication, law and education of primary school aged chil-dren.

The registration for the scholarship is open from Ja-nuary 10, 2018 to February 9, 2018 and will be conducted in 4 stages. The selection result will be announced on March 28 – 30, 2018.

Founded in 2014, Ruang-guru currently has more than 6 million users and has been developing a variety of technology-based learning services such as online study rooms with learning videos, practicing exam as well as discussion and module sum-maries, marketplace for pri-vate tutorials, on-demand learning guidance, test room for online exam tryout and digitalbootcamp for learning in group with standby tutor.

For more details, please access https://ruangguru.com/belajar and download the Ruanguru mobile app on the Play Store, App Store. (TPP)

quality of my worship, God allowed me to get a beauti-ful victory,” he said.

After the condition im-proved, Yoga actively par-ticipated in various com-petitions. He is also active in intra and extra campus. Originating from Pabalong, South Kalimantan, Yoga was listed as a recipient of scholarship from Lead-ership Home Nurul Fikri when he was a child.

His care in environment is realized by joining the Green Active Forum (IGAF). Yoga also devoted himself as a mentor in the Propelan community to guide those who want to excel like him-self. (OKZ/TPP)

Unair Student Wins Competition of Asean + Unet Logo Design

Adi Wisnu Nugroho, a stu-dent of Economics and Business (FEB) Faculty, Airlangga Uni-versity (Unair) Surabaya, must make his campus proud. He has successfully won the competition on designing the logo of ASEAN + 3 University Network (ASEAN + 3 UNet).

According to Wisnu, when he was acknowledged that he won the competition, he could not be-lieve it. The competition was held relatively long time ago and Wis-nu almost forgot that he parti-cipated in the prestigious compe-tition.

“At first, I thought I did not win, especially because the time from the opening of the competi-tion to the announcement is too long, from June 2017 to January 2018. I almost forgot it, then sud-denly I got the acknowledgement that I won,” said Wisnu on Thurs-day (1/11).

The student, majoring in ma-nagement, said he participated in the ASEAN + 3 UNet Logo De-sign Competition was just to fill

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the spare time. Wisnu got the info about the competition from Un-air account at the social media of Line.

“With the help of several friends, I finally sent ten logos to the competition,” said Wisnu.

To get ideas for his designs, Wisnu was studying logos that became trendy and widely used by educational institutions. The student of class 2014 then com-bined the flag colors of three ASE-AN + 3 Unet countries, namely China, Japan, and Korea.

“I took the colors of country flags, yellow for China, blue for Korea, and red for Japan,” said Wisnu.

He added that he never parti-cipated in such a competition be-fore. However, he does have de-sign skills he usually uses in the campus activities as an organizer of a member of committee.

“I won the prize of US$800 (eight hundred dollars) in cash and a certificate of recognition from ASEAN + 3 Unet,” he said. (TPP)

ruptive changes.”Meanwhile, Nadine

Sulkowski from UoG stat-ed, “In Indonesia with more than 260 million popula-tion, as a country with the highest economy growth in Southeast Asia, the sup-port for start-up business is still fragmented. It need a more coordinated ap-proach by involving edu-cation sector, government, and Industry to build the capacity of entrepreneur-ship.”

How GITA can accom-modate higher education institutions’ effort to be the real Entrepreneur Uni-versity, not only a baseless claim? Follow the next arti-cle. (JBS/TPP)

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President University Opens Registration for Dharmasiswa Scholarship, Introducing Indonesia Through Nature and Culture

President University proudly announces to host the Darma-siswa scholarship for 2018-2019 program. The registration of this program is open until February 18, 2018.

Darmasiswa is a scholarship program offered to foreign stu-dents from other countries that have diplomatic relations with In-donesia, aiming to promote and increase the interest of the youth in other countries in the Indone-sian language and culture.

Later, the students will stay for 1 year in Indonesia to gain a valuable living experience.

Vice Rector of President Uni-versity for Communication and Cooperation, Handa S. Abidin, SH, LL.M., Ph.D., said he hoped the Darmasiswa participants will not only be able to mas-ter the Indonesian language but also become the “ambassadors” of Indonesia in their respective countries.

“Hopefully they can promote Indonesia and bring Indonesia closer to their respective coun-tries,” Handa said.

“We are open to receiving Dar-masiswa participants from any country in the world,” he added

Upon admission into the Dar-masiswa program, the foreign students will be given a place to stay at the President University’s dormitory for 1 year.

At President University, the participants will learn Bahasa Indonesia in some socio-cultur-al activities such as Pencak Silat, and traditional dances held once a week. Each participant will be accompanied by a student buddy to assist them in technical mat-ters and improve their Bahasa Indonesia skills.

“The Darmasiswa partici-pants also have the opportunity to visit Tanjung Lesung and Mo-rotai to see and feel the beauty of Indonesia,” Handa added.

Tanjung Lesung and Morotai are the Special Economic Zones of Tourism included in the 10 New Balis for development pri-ority by the Indonesian govern-ment. Tanjung Lesung and Mo-rotai are managed by Jababeka Group, the parent company of President University.

President University is a 100% English-speaking higher educa-tion institution in Indonesia, es-tablished to become a center for research and development in In-donesia and to set new stan-dards in higher education in In-donesia.

The President University is also meant to create a learning institution which will prepare fu-ture industry and community leaders by giving them the skills and experiences needed to excel upon the graduation. (TPP)

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SENIOR LIVING

D’Khayangan Invites Bonsai

Maestro to Teach Bonsai Design

Techniques

The event was attended by Rosylawati Dewi, the wife of Chairman of Jababeka S.D. Darmono, along with her friends, while the speaker was In-donesian bonsai maestro Budi Sulistyo.

The event began with a presentation about the species of plants can be made as bonsai, such as Ficus virens, Ficus glauca, Pemphis acidula, Casuarina equisetifolia, Triphasia trifolia, Euge-nia uniflora, Bucida spinosa, Plectronia horida, Premna, Celtis, Blue bell (desmodium Sp), Bou-genvillia, Feronia Lucida, Dombeya rotundifolia, Jacquinea aculeata and others.

It was followed by Budi’s explanation about de-sign techniques, including Rain Tree (samanae saman in nature), From Cutting, The Roots, Root Wiring, Root Splitting, The Recovered Root.

After the presentation, the author of “Galeri Bonsai” (Bonsai Gallery) showed the audience how to make a bonsai with the available tools and materials, such as a scissor, a wire coil, chop-sticks, a pot, fertilizers, and of course the tree to be formed a bonsai.

Budi showed some techniques using the wire coil. He shaped up the tree using the wire which according to him was easier to make various beau-

tiful shapes, although it has to be done carefully.“This wire actually makes the tree suffer, but

in this case its suffering produces beauty. Like someone who has a plastic surgery would have been initially in pain but ended up beautiful. It needs sacrifice to be beautiful and good looking. That’s the concept of bonsai with this wire,” he said.

After he finished working on the stem and wire, Budi proceeded with beautifying the leaves by cutting some twigs. Then using the chopsticks, he punched the soil off to be replaced with new ferti-lized soil with more nutrients.

In the pot, Budi mixed 4 materials of gravels, sand, humus and topsoil with the composition of 1:1. Then he put the tree into the pot and stirred the media with chopsticks so there is no empty space in the pot. The bonsai must be watered suf-ficiently every day.

After watching the demo of how to make a bon-sai, the audience were served a lunch, then they went to the Indonesian Arts Exhibition at Jaba-beka Convention Center where various models of bonsai were on display. Photo by Presidentpost.com (Risma/TPP)

Bonsai is a tree grown in a pot to make it an artistic miniature

plant. The Senior Living D’Khayangan held “Sharing Bonsai” event on Thursday (1/18) at the Activity Room

D’Khayangan, Jababeka, Cikarang.

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ART

The Indonesian Arts Exhibition was officially opened on Wednesday (1/17) by Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister Sofyan Djalil at the Jababeka Convention Center, Cikarang.

The opening ceremony was attended by Chairman of Jababeka S.D. Darmo-no, the owner of OHD Museum in Magelang dr. Oei Hong Djien, and one of Indo-nesia’s top designers Harry Darsono.

In his speech, S.D. Darmono said he wanted to help the tenants in Jababeka to increase their company’s competitiveness. And design is one way to rise the added value of a product.

Based on the data from Education and Culture Ministry, Indonesia has more than 700 ethnicities and cultures, also more than 1,000 languages from 17,000 islands which will be able to make Indonesia lead the world in fine arts. So, these arts will attract tourists and making Indonesia more competitive in the world.

S.D. Darmono also called on the government to promote the strong competi-tiveness of Indonesian arts. “By combining the arts with tourism, innovation and design, Indonesian products will stand out in the world. The Indonesian brand-ing then will improve.”

Minister Sofyan Djalil said he hoped the exhibition would be held yearly to ac-commodate the artists and provide the opportunity for the public to appreciate their artworks. “Such an event will inspire other artists to develop arts and cul-tures for the future, especially in the product design.”

dr Oei Hong Djien, in the meantime, said he considered the exhibition very successful because the displays were as good as in the international exhibitions. “With our limitations, we are able to present Indonesian Arts Exhibition with 5 themes of landscape arts, politics and roles, social life, symbolism and mytho-logy.

During the event, Indonesia’s top designer, artist and musician Harry Darso-no performed with his piano playing music of struggle songs which astonished the audience.

The Indonesian Arts Exhibition is the first held in Indonesia to promote the works of Indonesian artists of all periods, starting from the 19th century pio-neered by Raden Saleh and his peers. The event run from January 17 to 21, 2018. (Risma/TPP)

ARTSINDONESIAN

EXHIBITIONThe Indonesian Arts Exhibition was officially opened on Wednesday (1/17) by Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister Sofyan Djalil, accompanied by Founder and Chairman of Jababeka Group S.D. Darmono and CEO Jababeka Budianto Liman held at Jababeka Convention Center (JCC) Jababeka Industrial Estate Cikarang

Such an event will inspire other artists to develop arts and cultures for the future, especially in the product design,“ said Sofyan

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GOLF

Pertamina Central Java Holds Golf

Tournament at Borobudur

International Golf & Country Club

PT Pertamina (Persero) Mar-keting Region IV Central Java & DI Yogyakarta held “Marketing Golf Club Tournament” at the Borobudur International Golf & Country Club, Magelang, on Saturday (1/20). About 70 golf-ers from Pertamina and partner institutions participated in the tournament.

They played for grand priz-es of two 43-inch televisions, one smartphone iPhone X, one smartphone Samsung Galaxy S8, and one smartphone Hua-wei.

Here is the list of the winners:For the Skill Category, the

nearest to the pin was won by Heri Sulistiyono with a distance of 400 cm. The nearest to the line was achieved by Syafrizal with a distance of 49 cm and the longest drive was triumphed by Fikri with a distance of 220 cm.

In the Category of Flight B, the

best nett II was grabbed by Arif Riyanto with handicap 18 and nett 72, the best nett I was won by Dwi Wahyu Daryanto with handicap 16 and nett 71, while the best gross was achieved by Yoni with handicap 19 and gross 91.

For the Category of Flight A, the best nett II was obtained by Yoyok with handicap 16 and nett 73, the best nett I was triumphed by Fairy Ananda with handi-cap 15 and nett 72, and the best gross was achieved by Nyoman with handicap 14 and gross 86

In the Overall Category, the best nett was won by Heri Su-listyo with handicap 17 and nett 71 while the best gross was achieved by Titok with handicap 14 and gross 85

The Borobudur International Golf & Country Club lies between the richness of natural beauty of the mountains, refreshing clean

air, and the charm of Javanese culture. The 18-hole golf course is adorned with bumpy lawns, manicured greens, tees and co-lorful contrasting landscapes that makes your golf game fun.

The Borobudur Internatio-nal Golf & Country Club is open to members as well as local and international visitors. It is a 45-minute drive from Yogyakar-ta and easy to reach from Sema-rang and Solo. The warm hospi-tality of Javanese culture can be felt by all visitors, making people hard to decline the joy experi-ence of golfing at Borobudur In-ternational Golf & Country Club.

The Borobudur Internatio nal Golf & Country Club is locat-ed in the center of Magelang, a town in the valley of Mount Ti-dar. Magelang is known for its cool climate, as well as fresh and beautiful scenery. About 40 km north of Yogyakarta and 60

km south of Semarang, this ele-gant golf course was designed by Douglas Duncanson, a world-class golfer, and worked on by experts in building a golf course from PT Jababeka Golf Cika-rang.

The golf course is also equipped with a luxurious club-house that offers many facili-ties. The pro shop provides a va-riety of famous golf brands that gua rantees satisfaction. There is also ample space for parking and it provides easy entry and exit access. For the beginners and professionals, the Borobudur In-ternational Golf & Country Club offers a driving range that is su-pervised by experienced instruc-tors and accompanied by friend-ly caddies who are ready to help anyone who comes to practice driving. Photo by Borobudur In-ternational Golf & Country Club (TPP)