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Indonesian Population to Reach 321 Million in 2045

They are very progressive, very attractive, especially in promoting various investment facilities and they also offer a lucrative incentive scheme to the investors.”

President Joko Widodo

“I want to empha-size that our mo-mentum is very good. Our compet-itiveness continues to increase”

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President Jokowi Instructs Deregulation and Evaluation of Investment Incentives

The instruction, accord-ing to Jokowi, was to ensure the flow of foreign investments would not disrupted in enter-ing the country despite the in-creasingly tight global eco-nomic competition.

“I want to emphasize that our momentum is very good. Our competitiveness continues to increase, the Global Com-petitiveness Index 2017-2018 is in the rank 36. This mo-mentum should be followed by breakthroughs, innovative steps to attract more invest-

ments into our country,” he said at the Presidential Office on Tuesday (2/20).

The thing is currently some other countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka have also been trying to make many breakthroughs to attract foreign investors.

“They are very progressive, very attractive, especially in promoting various investment facilities and they also offer a lucrative incentive scheme to the investors,” the head of state added.

Jokowi further said if Indo-nesia does not make any im-provement, does not innovate in licensing services, does not cut the hampering regula-tions, then Indonesia will be left behind.

Earlier, Coordinating Minis-ter for Economic Affairs Dar-min Nasution predicted that the Single Submission prog-ram could be piloted in March 2018. The integrated licensing is a solution offered by the go-vernment over the lengthy in-vestment processes right now.

The trial will be conduct-ed in all government agencies starting from the ministries, provincial, and municipal/re-

209.5 million will be in the pro-ductive age between 15-64 years and about 66.8 million will be the youth under 15 years old.

At that time the total fertili-ty rate (FTR) is expected to be 2.1 per family, life expectancy to be 72.8 years, the elderly num-ber to be 62.85 million, and the urbanization or people living in the city will reach 67.1%.

“In 2045 the vision of Indone-sia is a country whose popula-tion is scientific and technolo-gically minded, its development has been advanced, the politi-cal conditions are increasing-ly democratic, strong, and free from corruption,” Bambang said.

“The young citizens may pre-fer to seek employment abroad,

The Ministry of National De-velopment Planning (PPN/Bap-penas) has stated the popula-tion of Indonesia will be 321 million at the commemoration of 100 years independence or in 2045.

National Development Plan-ning Minister/Bappenas Head Bambang Brodjonegoro said that while delivering his presen-tation as the keynote speaker at the Kick-Off Meeting on Popu-lation Census 2020 at the BPS Head Office, Central Jakarta, on Wednesday (2/14).

“When the population reach-es 321 million in 2045, how many of them will contribute to the nation?” asked Bambang.

According to him, out of the 321-million population, about

Go-Jek Gets Capital Injection from Temasek, Google and Others Totaling Rp16 Trillion

PT Astra International Tbk (ASII) has said to have injected funds amounting to US$150 million or about Rp2.025 trillion into Go-Jek. This capital injection is a portion of fund invested by a group of giant companies into Go-Jek

Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Go-Jek, Na-diem Makarim, said that As-tra’s funding is part of an investment at approximate-ly US$1.2 billion or around Rp16 trillion. According to Nadiem, Astra is the largest investor among the group, although he did not mention what percentage of the por-tion.

“I cannot mention the per-centage, but what I can say is yes, it is the same contribu-tion round and Astra Inter-national is the largest inves-tor in this round,” he said at

the Press Conference of As-tra X Go-Jek at the Fairmont Hotel, Jakarta, on Monday (2/12).

Previously big companies from all around the world were reported to inject capi-tal into Go-Jek. Among them were Google Alphabet, Singa-pore-based investor Temasek Holdings and China-based online platform company Meituan-Dianping.

Go-Jek’s existing inves-tors such as global private eq-uity firms KKR & Co LP and Warburg Pincus LLC also participated in this funding round. Other national com-panies, like Djarum Group, was also reported to invest in Go-Jek, but the company later denied it.

“Astra International is in-deed the first national com-pany investing in us. The others have not yet,” Nadiem said.

Astra International in-vests in Go-Jek under the banner of parent company. The funds for the capital in-jection came from its internal cash. (DTK/TPP)

gency administrations.A task force is also estab-

lished in each ministry, pro-vincial, and municipal/regen-cy governments to ensure the smoothness of the program. The task force will be head-ed by the Secretary General of the ministry, while in the re-gion will be led by the Regio-nal Secretary.

“It’s [supervised] by the sys-tem, so we all know exact-ly where the permission pro-cess is halted. Yes, it’s online,” Jokowi said. (KBR/TPP)

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President Joko Widodo has instructed all relevant ministries to continue the deregulation, evaluation of incentives, and overseeing the existing policy packages.

but we expect them to be more skillful,” he added.

With the high demographic bonus, Bambang said, the go-vernment should be able to use it by maintaining the TFR at the 2.1 level per family and reducing the infant mortality rate (IMF) to 3%.

“If these two things can be done, the demographic bonus can be extended. Recently I pro-posed to change the campaign from previously ‘2 children are enough’ to become ‘maximum 2 children’. Don’t let Indonesia to be dominated by aging po-pulation before becoming deve-loped country. That happened in Japan today, and so in Rus-sia and Singapore,” he conclud-ed. (DTK/TPP)

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President Jokowi Inaugurates Groundbreaking of Padang-Pekanbaru Toll Road

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has inaugurated the groundbreaking of Padang-Pe-kanbaru toll road first phase construction which will con-nect Padang to Sicincin.

“Alhamdulillah (thank God) we can start the 254-kilometer Padang-Pekanbaru toll road,” said President Jokowi when ina ugurated the construction of Padang-Sicincin toll road at the Bypass Street Kilometer 0, Padang, West Sumatra, on Fri-day (2/9).

The president said that once the construction of this toll road finished, the travel time from Padang to Pekanbaru and vice versa will be shortened from currently 9 (nine) hours to become only 3 (three) hours.

Therefore, the president said he believed the construction of

the toll road will be able to fa-cilitate the movement of people and business world so that the economic growth will rise.

“If we want to win the com-petition with other countries, the very fundamental and very basic thing we must do first is building the infrastructure. That’s because the infrastruc-ture will make the transporta-tion and logistics costs much cheaper,” said Jokowi, add-ing when the costs of logistics and transportation drop, Indo-nesia’s competitiveness will in-crease.

The head of state also af-firmed that the infrastructure will strengthen the promotion of tourism in West Sumatra. He said the beautiful scenery of West Sumatra has the poten-tial to be developed, especially

with the support of good infra-structure.

“With good infrastructure, the number of visitors may be-come double, triple, even four or five times. It speeds the mobili-ty of people from one city to an-other, traveling from one regen-cy to another region becomes faster,” said the president.

Meanwhile Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) Minister Basuki Hadimuljono in his re-port said that the construction of the Padang-Pekanbaru toll road requires an investment of around Rp78 trillion.

“The project is planned to be carried out in 2018-2023. There will be a 7-kilometer tun-nel done with the JICA (Ja-pan International Cooperation Agency) loan,” Basuki said.

The construction of the

Padang-Pekanbaru toll road will be conducted in three stag-es, namely Phase I of Padang-Sicincin with a length at 28 kilometers, Phase I of Bangki-nang-Pekanbaru at 38 kilome-ters, and Phase III of Sicincin-Bangkinang at 189 kilometers. (SETKAB/TPP)

President Jokowi Inaugurates 17 New Indonesian Ambassadors

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo inaugurated and took oath of 17 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipo-tentiary of the Republic of Indonesia to friendly coun-tries, at the State Palace, on Tuesday (20/2) morning.

The inauguration was held based on Presidential Decree Number 30/P/2018 and 31/P/2018 on the Ap-pointment of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipo-tentiary recited by Deputy to the Minister of State Sec-retary for Administrative Af-fairs and Apparatus, Cecep Sutiawan.

Among those 17 ambas-sadors are former Chairman of Indonesian Financial Ser-vices Authority (OJK) Mu-liaman Darmansyah Ha-dad, who was inaugurated as Indonesian Ambassador to Switzerland accredited to Liechtenstein, and law-yer Todung Mulya Lubis as Indonesian Ambassador to Norway accredited to Ice-land.

The list of the new 17 Am-bassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary are:l Drs. Ade Padmo Sarwoni

MA, Indonesian Ambas-sador to ASEAN;

l Arif Havas Oegroseno SH, LLM, Indonesian Ambas-sador to Germany;

l Drs Djauhari Oratman-gun, Indonesian Ambas-sador to China;

l Drs Hermono MA, Indo-nesian Ambassador to Spain accredited to The World Tourism Organiza-tion (UNWTO);

l Hersindaru Arwityo Ibnu Wiwoho Wahyutomo SH, LLM, Indonesian Ambas-sador to Portugal;

l Inspector General Prof-fesor Dr Iza Fadri, Indo-nesian Ambassador to Myanmar;

l Inspector General Drs M

Vice President Jusuf Kalla Receives Honoris Causa Doctorate Degree from Hiroshima University

Vice President Jusuf Kal-la was conferred the Honoris Causa Doctorate Degree on Development and Peace by the Hiroshima University, in Japan, on Wednesday (2/21).

Hiroshima University President Mitsuo Ochi hand-ed the Honoris Causa Doc-torate to the Vice President Jusuf Kalla at the campus, said Deputy for Communi-cations and Public Informa-tion Assistant Secretary of the Vice President Rusmin Nuryadin.

Vice President Jusuf Kal-la has received HC Doctor-ate degrees in various dis-ciplines, including politics, economy, management, go-vernment and decentraliza-tion from home and abroad,

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among which in 2007 he was bestowed two HC Doctorate de-grees by Malaya University, Ma-laysia, and Soka University, Ja-pan.

Then Pendidikan Indone-sia University and Hasanud-din University awarded him the same HC Doctorate degrees in 2011, and Brawijaya University in 2013, University of Indonesia in 2015, Syiah Kuala University and Andalas University in 2016.

In addition to them, the Vice President also received the same degrees from Rajamanga-la University of Technology Isan in Bangkok, Thailand in March 2017. Beginning in 2018 he was again granted the Doctorate HC in Sociology of Religion by Alauddin Islamic University of Makassar. (OKZ/TPP)

Amhar Azeth SH, Indone-sian Ambassador to Moldo-va;

l Dra Marina Estella Anwar Bey, Indonesian Ambassa-dor to Bolivia;

l Muliaman Darmansyah Ha-dad, Indonesian Ambassa-dor to Switzerland accredit-ed to Liechtenstein;

l Dra Niniek Kun Naryatie, In-donesian Ambassador to Ar-gentine accredited to Para-guay and Uruguay;

l Des RP Pratito Soeharyo, Indonesian Ambassador to Laos;

l Raden Mohammad Be-nyamin Scott Carnadi SH, MBA, LLM, Indonesian Am-bassador to the Republic of Fiji accredited to the Repub-lic of Kiribati, the Republic of Nauru, and Tuvalu;

l Drs Rossalis Rusman Ade-nan MBA, Indonesian Am-bassador to Sudan accredit-ed to Eritrea;

l Dr Drs Sinyo Harry Sa-rundajang, Indonesian Am-bassador to the Philippines accredited to Marshall Is-land and the Republic of Pa-lau;

l Sudirman Haseng SE, MSi, Indonesian Ambassador to Cambodia;

l Dr Sudjatmiko MA, Indone-sian Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam;

l Prof Dr Todung Mulya Lubis, Indonesian Ambassador to Norway accredited to Ice-land.The inauguration was at-

tended by First Lady Ibu Iriana, Speaker of the House of Repre-sentatives Bambang Soesatyo, Speaker of Regional Represen-tative Council Oesman Sapta, Coordinating Minister for Mar-itime Affairs Luhut B. Pandjai-tan, Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi, Ca binet Secre-tary Pramono Anung, and Com-mander of Indonesian National Defense Forces (TNI) Marshall Hadi Tjahjanto. (SETKAB/TPP)

We must do first is building the infrastructure. That’s because the infrastructure will make the transportation and logistics costs much cheaper.”

Jokowi: In the Era of Abundant Misinformation, the Press is Needed

President Joko Widodo has said he often heard the press and mass media will be erod-ed by the social media. How-ever, Jokowi said he believed the press is still needed in the era of abundant information and mis-information.

According to him, in the last 5 years, many analysts kept saying the mass media would be overpowered by the social media.

“The mass media, the press, known as the fourth pillar of de-mocracy, is considered to be dif-ficult to compete with the social and digital media. But I believe

that in the era of technological leaps, in the era of abundant in-formation and misinformation, the press is increasingly need-ed!” said Jokowi while address-ing the peak event of the Natio-nal Press Day (HPN) 2018 at the Lake Cimpago, Padang Beach, Padang, West Sumatra, on Fri-day (2/9).

Jokowi further said the press is increasingly needed to be-come a pillar in delivering the truth. The press is also increas-ingly needed as an enforcer of the aspirations in the commu-nity.

“The press is increasingly

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needed as a pillar of the facts. The press is increasingly need-ed as a pillar of the enforcers of the aspirations in the society. The press is increasingly need-ed to help build a new cultural narrative, build a new civiliza-tion narrative,” he added.

Jokowi also said the press is increasingly needed to ‘photo-graph’ how the people moving faster and more efficiently; the society that gave birth to the era of industrial revolution 4.0 based on the digitalization of computing power and data ana-lytics.

“It produces a lot of innova-

tions we need to know imme-diately, which we must under-stand right away, if we do not want to be left behind. Once again, the press is needed to help build a new cultural nar-rative, build a new civilization narrative,” Jokowi said.

Related to the press, Jokowi told a moment when he was sur-rounded by many journalists in one meeting. The number of journalists reached 90 people.

“The question asked was not only one, there were so many and most of them were difficult to answer because we were not ready,” said Jokowi. (DTK/TPP)

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Indonesian Diaspora in USA Ready to Spend Rp4.7 Billion/Year to Build Papua

Visiting Menperin, Singapore Foreign Affairs Minister Discusses Kendal Industrial Park and Industry 4.0

The Ministry of Natio-nal Development Planning/Bappenas has collaborated with Indonesian academics living in the United States to build Papua. They are members of the Indonesian American Society of Aca-demics (IASA).

IASA said it’s ready to disburse US$350 thousand or Rp4.7 billion of fund per year, collected independent-ly from the Indonesian dias-pora.

The collaboration was marked by the signing of Cooperation Agreement bet ween the ministry and IASA at the Bappenas Of-fice, Central Jakarta, on Wednesday (2/7).

The focus of the coope-ration includes the deve-lopment of boarding schools and telemedicine services

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Transportation Ministry Targets to Close All Railroad Crossings in 2019

Home Affairs Minister Revokes 50 Rules Hindering Investment

The Ministry of Transportation has targeted three points related to the railway safety. One of them is closing all the intersec-tions between a railway line and a road.

Director General of Railways of the Trans-portation Ministry, Zul-fikri, said that the mi-nister had demanded quick wins from eve-ry directorate general for 2018. The Railways Directorate General will work on the rail-way safety for one of its quick win programs.

“We have done some issues related to the railway safety and now we are accelerating the prog ram to close the railroad cross-ings,” Zulfikri said at his office on Jl. Medan Merdeka Barat 8 Cen-tral Jakarta, on Thurs-day (2/15).

There were 5,829 railroad crossings throughout Indone-sia and 291 have been closed. The target is to close all of them in 2019.

“On January 11, 2018 we set the target to close 168 railroad crossings and until February 14 it turned out 211 intersections have been closed. Then we plan to close 93 more from February 14 to 28. The target until February 28 is to close 304 railroad crossings in total,” said Director of Safety of the Trans-portation Ministry Edi Nursalam at the same location.

The second point to be worked on is certify-

Home Affairs Minis-ter Tjahjo Kumolo has again removed about 50 regulations regard-ing permits and invest-ments issued by the authori ties under his mi nistry. Tjahjo said he revoked regulations that were considered causing a long and complicated bureaucracy.

“It’s a follow-up of president’s direction to not let investment be hampered by licensing. After we audited, there were 52 regulations on licensing, governance, staffing, civil services, and planning, causing too long bureaucracy. So, we cut them,” said Tjahjo at the Bidakara hotel, Jalan Gatot Su-broto, South Jakarta, on Wednesday (2/7).

“The investors don’t have to always go to the central government, but they can take care at

Industry Minister (Menperin) Airlangga Hartarto received the visit of Singaporean Foreign Af-fairs Minister Vivian Balakrish-nan and his staff at the Ministry of Industry, Jakarta, on Tuesday (2/13).

According to Minister Air-langga, during the visit, they ex-changed views and discussed the cooperation between Indonesia and Singapore on industry.

“The agenda of the meeting in-clude the discussion on vocation schools, Kendal Industrial Park, digital economy, and the develop-ment of industry 4.0,” he said.

As it is known, Indonesia and Singapore are committed to mu-tually enhance the cooperation in the economy, especially industri-al sector.

Minister Airlangga said that one realization of the coopera-tion has been carried out by PT Jababeka Tbk and Sembcorp De-

velopment Ltd in developing the Kendal Industrial Park (KIK), an integrated industrial estate with international standard in Cen-tral Java.

“The development of KIK in the stages 1 and 2 is done on the land areas of 1,000 hectares (Ha) and 1,200 Ha respectively,” he said.

The KIK development is ex-pected to give a positive impact to the national economy with the target to attract investments up to Rp200 trillion and to employee 500,000 people.

“Until August 2017, the real-ization of investments in the KIK has reached Rp4.7 trillion by 32 investors from Indonesia, Singa-pore, Malaysia, China and Ja-pan. The jobs created have ab-sorbed 5,000 workers,” Airlangga said.

He added the potential coo-peration that needs to be ex-plored between the two countries

is in the form of Business Pro-cess Outsourcing (BPO) in the ICT sector for the Islamic board-ing schools (pesantren) in Indo-nesia.

“The integrated NDP develop-ment between IT office, start up incubator, data center and resort is expected to become the hub of digital economy, industry and tourism,” he said.

Based on the data from the In-dustry Ministry, the investments from Singapore reach 30.9 per-cent of the total foreign invest-ment in Indonesia for industrial sector. This investment creates new job openings for 126,293 people.

The neighboring country is also listed as the largest strategic partner and investor in Indone-sia. In 2016, the investment value from Singapore reached US$9.2 billion for 5,874 projects, above Japan and China. (IND/TPP)

ing the human resourc-es working for the rail-way businesses. There are about 2,000 profes-sionals who will be cer-tified, including train crew (ASP), mainte-nance personnel, ins-pectors, and railway crossing officers (PJL).

“The third point is removing the ille-gal buildings along the Soekarno-Hatta rail-way line. We have done it in seven areas. We have started this prog-ram from December last year in the areas from Tanah Abang to Duri. Our target is to finish it in March,” said Edi.

According to him, those programs aimed to boost the perfor-mance of PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) by un-derstanding what hap-pened in the field. Re-garding to the closing of railroad crossings, the local governments have an important role to socialize it to the community.

“The local govern-ment is the key. Unfor-tunately we understand some local govern-ments cannot afford to finance the program. Actually the main prio-rity is the railroad crossings which are al-ready covered by a fly-over. The problem is how about the pedes-trians? Or horse/cow-drawn carts? We are trying to find a solu-tion, let say by provid-ing a facility for pe-destrians and carts to pass through but not for motor vehicles,” Zul-fikri added. (DTK/TPP)

the region including re-search permit and so on. We want to make it easier,” the minister added.

He said earlier his ministry had removed about 1,600 regulations considered to disrupt li-censing and investment. About 1,500 regional regulations have also been revoked.

“The local govern-ments have the autho-rity to issue regional regulations. I learned there were 88 new re-gulations issued and 52 of them have just been removed. We will check on the remaining ones,” said Tjahjo.

After the abolition of the regulations, the regions will make the guidelines about that.

“It’s not a must, but the regions can make the guidelines,” said Tjahjo. (DTK/TPP)

The government through the Ministry of Trade is preparing a plat-form for the owners of Mi-cro, Small, Medium En-terprises (MSMEs), both industry and business.

This special platform will be able to accommo-date all data of Nation-al MSME products where the e-commerce entre-preneurs later can just choose which local prod-ucts will be sold.

“The requirements and

criteria for MSMEs indus-try and business allowed to enter the e-commerce are being prepared,” said Trade Minister Enggar-tiasto Lukita in Jakar-ta on Thursday (2/22). The portion of MSMEs in-dustry and business go-ing into the e-commerce is also being discussed.

The minister added that to set the rules will take time and need guidance. “We will start with an invi-tation, after that we make

To Encourage Local Products Entering Marketplace, Government Prepares Special Platform for MSMEs

in Papua and West Papua.“The cooperation covers

2 activities, namely board-ing schools and telemedi-cine,” said National Deve-lopment Planning Minister/Head of Bappenas Bam-bang Brojonegoro.

For the first stage, the development programs will be done in the regencies of Jayapura, Merauke and Nabire.

“We understand that e-very Indonesian citizen is entitled to educational ac-cess in accordance with the compulsory education pro-gram. In Papua there are challenges regarding the geographical conditions that cause some areas dif-ficult to reach and the po-pulation sparsely spreads which is harder to gather in one place,” Bambang ex-

a commitment together on what percentage of lo-cal products, what cat-egory, what percentage for MSMEs industry with time frame, so there is a roadmap.”

According to him, with many more local prod-ucts marketed in the mar-ketplace will affect the economic growth of In-donesia. However, the government makes sure overseas products will not banned and restrict-

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plained. These conditions, ac-

cording to him, make it dif-ficult for children to go to school because they have to travel a long distance.

“First, regarding the boarding schools; the stu-dents have to walk a long distance to school every day. It’s not only wasted time but also energy, even-tually the output is not op-timal,” he added.

So, Bambang said he believed the most suitable schools for them are the boarding ones.

“Second, regarding the

ed to be sold in the online stores.

“We will not prohib-it, but we want the num-ber of local products to in-crease. If they all care, I am sure the sales will in-crease sharply,” said the minister.

The same thing is also expressed by the Head of Retail Education Division of the Association of Indo-nesian e-Commerce, Mo-hamad Rosihan. He said if there is a special platform

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that becomes a gathering place for the MSMEs, it will facilitate the organiz-ers to get them into their marketplace.

“This is what we want to unite so that in the future there is one database plat-form. If the Trade Minis-try can initiate it, it will be very good,” Rosihan added.

Through the platform, he continued, the govern-ment can also measure the success rate of national MSMEs. (IND/TPP)

telemedicine; the concern is the same, meaning that the people of Papua are spread-ing. So, it is difficult to de-termine where and how many community health centers and hospitals to be built to make it effective and efficient,” he said.

Telemedicine is con-sidered one of the break-throughs needed to solve the problem.

“Telemedicine even can be done on the surgery with the surgeons in Jakarta, Surabaya, and Makassar, for example.

With telemedicine, the lo-cal doctors do what directed remotely by the doctors in the other location and the doctors outside Papua can monitor it to make sure ev-ery step is right,” he added. (DTK/TPP)

We must do first is building the infrastructure. That’s because the infrastructure will make the transportation and logistics costs much cheaper.”

Every Indonesian citizen is entitled to educational access in accordance.”

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Sri Mulyani Named World Best Minister

Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has been crowned as the Best Minister in the World during the World Gov-ernment Summit in Dubai, Arab Emirates. The award was hand-ed over by the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

“This World Best Minister Award is a global award given to a minister from a country in the world each year and commenced in 2016. The selection and deter-mination process of the winners is conducted by independent agency Ernst & Young and orga-nized by the World Government Summit,” said an official state-ment on Sunday (2/11).

The Indonesian Finance Mi-nister in her speech expressed her appreciation to be the first award winner from Asia. Mul-yani said that the award is an acknowledgment of the collective work of the government under the leadership of Pre sident Joko

Widodo, especially in the eco-nomic field. The Finance Minis-ter also dedicated the award to 257 million Indonesian people and 78,164 officials of Finance Ministry who have worked hard to manage the state’s finance with integrity and high com-mitment to create equitable and equal citizens’ welfare.

Various policy reforms have been launched by the Ministry of Finance, aimed at fostering fiscal policies toward inclusive and sustainable development. The bureaucracy reforms in the ministry have also produced positive results.

The World Government Sum-mit is an annual meeting held in Dubai, UAE, and engages all government leaders from around the world in a global dia logue fo-rum discussing governance and public policies and their links to technology, innovation and oth-er topics.

The forum serves as an ex-

change of experiences and knowledges among the go-vernment officials, policy ma-kers, experts, and private sec-tor leaders to see future trends and their implications for hu-manity. The World Government Summit was attended by more than 4000 participants and 90 speakers from 150 countries and international agencies.

King Salman

February 15, 2018 has become an historic day for Indonesia, given it was the first time in 32 years that In-donesia was invited to participate in the most prestigious cultural festival in Saudi Arabia called Janadriyah Festival (mahrajan al-Janadriyah).

Indonesia was selected by King Salman himself who then ordered the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Saudi Ara-bia to involve Indonesia in the annual event this year. Janadriyah Festival is the largest national cultural event held in Janadriyah (42 km from Ri-

yadh), covering 2 million m² of land area and attracting 4-5 million visitors from various countries. (TPP)

“Indonesia’s economic growth is a good model and Pakis-tan wants to emulate it,” said Sindh Province Governor Mu-hammad Zubair when receiving the visit of Indonesian Con-sul General for Karachi Dempo Awang Yuddie in Karachi, Pakistan, on Monday (2/19).

Dempo Awang Yuddie will end his duty on February 28, so he visited Governor Muhammad Zubair to say goodbye. The governor appreciated Dempo’s efforts in increasing the trade value between the two countries from US$2.1 billion in 2016 to US$2.37 billion in 2017. MoUs between Indonesia and Pakistan worth US$26.86 million have also been signed on palm oil, coal, spare parts, betel nuts and beauty pro-ducts. (TPP)

The Indonesian Embassy in Brunei participated in the Higher Education Expo 2018 held in Bandar Seri Begawan on February 10-11. The booth of Indonesian Embassy was promoting State Islamic University of Sunan Ampel Suraba-ya, Hasanuddin University Makassar, and Atmajaya Univer-sity Yogyakarta.

Besides Indonesia, the other foreign countries participat-ed in the exhibition were Japan, United States, and Austra-lia. The third annual event was officially opened by Educa-tion Minister of Brunei Darussalam, Dato Paduka Awaji Haji Hamzah Bin Haji Sulaiman who said the expo aimed to pro-vide information on higher education inside and outside the country. (TPP)

Nurtanio Planes Made by PTDI Sold 75 Units at Singapore Airshow

Welcoming 70 Years Indonesia-Italy Relations: Strengthen Cooperation on MSMEs and Creative Economy

Indonesia Elected Vice Chairman of UN IFAD AgainIndonesian Rionald Silaban,

Expert Staff of the Finance Mi-nister, was elected as Vice Chair-man of United Nations’ Inter-national Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for the peri-od of 2018-2020, during its 41st Governing Council meeting on February 13-14 in Rome, Italy. Silaban was unanimously voted for the second time along with the chairman from the Neth-erlands and the second Vice-Chairman from Argentina.

IFAD is the international fi-nancial institution dedicated to encouraging investment in rural areas for the alleviation of pover-ty and hunger. Currently about 80% of 815 million people in the very poor category across the world are living in rural areas and mostly are farmers.

“Cooperating with IFAD is good for Indonesia as it is aimed

For the First Time Indonesia Participates in Prestigious Janadriyah Cultural Festival in Saudi Arabia

Pakistan Wants to Copy Indonesia’s Economic Growth Model

Indonesia Participates in Higher Education Expo in Brunei

The Aircraft N219 aka Nur-tanio made by PT Dirgantara In-donesia (PTDI) attracted a lot of attention in the aerospace exhi-bition Singapore Airshow 2018. Orders for this aircraft kept flowing.

PTDI Production Director Arie Wibowo said the Nurtanio plane was selling well at the Singapore Airshow. He received orders for 75 units of the aircraft.

“Yes, there are orders for 75 units of Nurtanio planes,” he said on Sunday (2/25).

Most of the orders have been sealed on the Letter of Intent (LoI). The buyers are interested in Nutraino for its many advan-tages.

The N219 aircraft, named Nurtaino by President Joko Widodo, indeed have remark-able sophistications, even better than the similar aircraft made by companies overseas.

This Bandung-made in plane has the ability to reach remote areas with passenger capaci-ty up to 19 people with spacious cabins.

The N219 aircraft can be used to transport civilian passengers, military purposes, freight or car-go, medical evacuation, to as-sistance in the natural disas-ters. With these advantages, the plane is also cheaper than the similar aircraft of Twin Otter.

The N219 has a maximum speed of 210 knots, and the

Indonesian Foreign Af-fairs Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi received the vis-it of Italian Foreign Affairs and International Coopera-tion Minister Angelino Alfa-no at the Gedung Pancasila on Wednesday (2/7).

Indonesia was the first country in a series of Minis-ter Alfano’s visits in South-east Asia. After Indonesia, he visited Singapore and Thailand.

During the meeting, the two countries agreed to strengthen strategic coo-peration between Indonesia and Italy. Next year Indone-sia and Italy will comme-morate the 70th anniver-sary of diplomatic relations with the theme of “MSME and Creative Economy”.

Italy is Indonesia’s third largest trade partner in the European Union. Until No-vember 2017, the total trade value of Indonesia-Italy has reached US$3 billion, an in-crease of 16.84% compared to the same period in 2016.

Regarding the creative economy, Indonesia and Ita ly agreed to increase the cooperation involving Indonesian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) with related part-

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With the support of ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the World Government Summit was initi-ated by a group of experts from various fields to bring togeth-er all government, business and civil society leaders into a com-mon forum. The goal is to im-prove the lives of 7 billion people worldwide. (DTK/TPP)

lowest speed of 59 knots. This means that the speed is low enough but the plane can still be controlled; this is important es-pecially when maneuvering in the cliffs and mountains.

The Bandung-made in air-craft is equipped with two Pratt & Whitney Aircraft of Canada Limited PT6A-42 engines, each

ners in Italy, mainly in the culinary, fashion and fur-niture industries.

Minister Retno again ex-pressed Indonesia’s con-cern over the EU Parlia-ment’s decision to prohibit the use of palm oil in biofu-el by 2021

“I assure that the palm oil industry in Indonesia has been developed in ac-cordance with the princi-ples of Sustainable Palm Oil,” she said.

Indonesia and Italy have agreed to continue to pro-mote a culture of tolerance and moderation to support the world peace.

Minister Retno and Mi-nister Alfano also discussed the regional and global is-sues of mutual concerns among others were the peace process in Palestine, the intention to assist the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh in ensur-ing the repatriation process of refugees in dealing with the Rakhine State crisis.

In the context of ASEAN-EU cooperation, Retno and Alfano discussed the col-laboration in overcoming various challenges faced by the countries in both re-gions. (KML/TPP)

at small farms. IFAD programs in Indonesia have been priori-tizing farmers and fishermen in eastern Indonesia since 2017. IFAD chose Jakarta as its re-gional office, showing its confi-dence in Indonesia’s important role,” Silaban said.

According to him, Indone-sia is considered successful in building the economy and turn-ing from the lower income to the middle income country.

Charles F. Hutapea, the Charge d’Affaires of the Indo-nesian Embassy, representing Ambassador Esti Andayani wel-comed the reappointment of In-donesia as the vice chairman.

“This demonstrates the inter-national confidence in Indone-sia’s important role in the joint efforts to overcome various glo-bal challenges, especially in the sustainable agriculture deve-

is powered 850 SHP and is also equipped with Hartzell 4-Blade Metal Propeller.

The N219 aircraft is capable to carry the loads of up to 7,030 kilograms at take-off and 6,940 kilograms on landing. The speed of N219 aircraft can reach 210 knots with economic speed of 190 knots. (DTK/TPP)

lopment and the improvement of the welfare of small farmers. The status of Indonesia as a member of G20 and emerging economy further strengthens the posture of Indonesian diplomacy in inter-national forum,” he added.

Since its establishment in 1977 until 2016, IFAD has au-

thorized 1,037 projects that have helped about half a billion of farmers around the world. For the IFAD’s 11th agricultural de-velopment agenda (2019-2021), IFAD will launch loan program and agricultural grants worth more than US$3.5 billion. (KML/TPP)

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In Two Months Land Acquisition for Jakarta-Bandung Fast Train Project to be Completed

Land Acquisition for Kulon Progo Airport Project Completed in April

sar Pandjaitan said that the land acquisition in the Jakar-ta area will be completed by the end of February.

“Regarding the land ac-quisition, most likely we will finish it by the end of Febru-ary or March at the latest,” he said.

Meanwhile, Director Ge-neral of Land Procurement of the Agrarian and Spatial Planning Ministry Arie Yu-riwin said that in Jakarta 258 land plots are needed, of which 3.1 hectares had been acquired. For the West Java area, the 6,317 land plots needed have been measured and are now waiting for the pricing.

“The land acquisition in DKI Jakarta is expected to finish in March, while for those in West Java we expect to complete it in April,” said Arie. (DTK/TPP)

airport development could be resolved. He urged the affect-ed residents to make use the help desk.

Hasto also said the NYIA development project in Ku-lon Progo to date still has two problems. First, the consign-ment of residents affected by the development whose pay-ment process stalled due to the administrative problems.

“Second, there is a small group of 32 (people) who has frequently appeared on the media, saying they refuse the airport development project,” he said.

The initial step to resolve the problem, Hasto added, was by setting up the help desk. He also will complete soon the payments for affected re-sidents who have already been under the consignment.

“There are 131 land plots have not been paid yet due to the administrative problems. However, yesterday some of them have completed the ad-ministrative requirements, so we just work on the remain-ing,” he said. (DTK/TPP)

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Train to Become 38 Minutes

Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi has said that the travel time of Soekar-no-Hatta International Airport (Soetta) train will be made fast-er in the near future. The travel time from Sudirman Baru Sta-tion to Soetta Airport will be made 38 minutes from the cur-rently about 55 minutes.

“The airport train now needs 55 minutes and in the near fu-ture it will only need 38 min-utes,” said Budi Karya at the Terminal 3 of Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Tangerang, on Satur-day (2/3).

By trimming the travel time,

it is expected more passengers will be using the new mode of transportation to the airport. Currently the occupancy rate of the train, operated by PT Railink, is still quite low.

In addition to trimming the travel time, the waiting time of the train will also be reduced.

“We will intensify the depar-tures from Batu Ceper Station to the airport because there are so many workers that can be transported, so that the fre-quency can be increased. Sure-ly it will also reduce the traf-fic density on the roads,” said Budi.

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The project of double-double track (DDT) connecting Mang-garai to Cikarang will be com-pleted in 2020, Transportation Minister Budi Karya Suma-di said when conducting a re-view at Dipo Cipinang on Sun-day (2/18).

The DDT project is divid-ed into 3 sections with a total length of 35.8 kilometers. The progress of section A, connect-ing Manggarai and Jatinegara, is 53%, the section B-21 con-necting Jatinegara and Beka-si is 78% and section B1 con-

We will increase the capacity starting in 2019 when the DDT of Manggarai-Kranji section is completed.”

I see the Kertajati Airport in the future can be expanded freely because the vacant land is larger than Cengkareng.”

Manggarai-Cikarang DDT Project Accelerated to Finish in 2020 Instead of 2022

Today Railink is evaluating the airport train operations, in-cluding to find ways to make the travel time shorter. One way that will be done soon is cut the time when the airport train is stopping at a station.

Additionally, Railink also continues to accelerate the construction of new tracks and other infrastructure at the Duri Station. Once this proj-ect is completed, it is believed the travel time of Soetta Airport Train will be much faster and the frequency of train depar-tures can be increased. (DTK/TPP)

Five more train stations will be added this year from previ-ously only three in 2017, name-ly East Bekasi, Cibitung and Cikarang.

“In 2018 there will be 5 more stations, namely Klender, Buaran, Klender Baru, Cakung and Kranji, which means that the commuter trains’ service is getting better as it reaches wid-er communities,” said Minister Budi.

Regarding the misuse of land around the DDT pro ject,

the minister said there are 1,100 M2 of land plots misused by 42 families in Manggarai which will be fixed completely in March 2018.

“I urge the people who mis-use the land plots to be more cooperative because this pro-ject is not for personal interests but for the benefit of all people,” Budi said.

Later, the DDT is expected to increase the passenger ca-pacity by 25% especially for the route of Manggarai-Kranji.

“We will increase the capa-city starting in 2019 when the DDT of Manggarai-Kranji sec-tion is completed. There will be a 25% increase, meaning that the carrying capacity to trans-port the Bekasi residents will be up to 100,000 passengers,” added the minister. (KEMEN-HUB/TPP)

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Kertajati Airport Ready to Serve Hajj Embarkation in 2018

West Java Provincial Go-vernment targets the Maja-lengka Kertajati Airport to launch its maiden flight in May 2018. Currently the cons-truction of airport facilities continues to be sped up to pursue the target.

West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan, familiarly called Aher, said the operation of Kertajati Airport is scheduled to start in May 2018 and in July 2018 it will serve to f ly the hajj pilgrims.

“The soft launching is scheduled on May 1, 2018 then the grand launching in June with the first batch of hajj pil-grimage passengers on July 15,” said Aher at the Coordi-

nating Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Jakarta, on Tuesday (2/20).

According to Aher, the air-port is currently working on several facilities, such as pas-senger terminal and runway extension to become 500 me-ters. The runway extension work is targeted for comple-tion in four months, so that during the hajj season, the Kertajati Airport can accom-modate wide-bodied aircrafts.

“At the soft launching we can only use small planes. In June after the 500 meters runway is completed, Boe-ing 777 can land on and take off from the new runway,” he said.

To support the access to Kertajati Airport, Cileunyi-Sumedang-Dawuan toll road (Cisumdawu) is currently un-der construction. The toll road is targeted to operate in 2019. For the time being, the access to Kertajati Airport can be reached from the Cikampek-Palimanan (Cipali) toll road.

“Currently using Cipali, but hopefully in 2019 Cisumdawu toll road will be ready,” Aher said.

Coordinating Minister for Mariteme Affairs Luhut Binar Pandjaitan said that Kertajati Airport is located very strate-gically close to the integrated economic areas of Karawang, Bekasi and Purwakarta, sup-

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ported by transportation in-frastructure. Besides, the va-cant land of Kertajati Airport is still large, making the air-port can be expanded further.

“I see the Kertajati Airport in the future can be expanded freely because the vacant land is larger than Cengkareng,” Aher said. (LPT/TPP)

Transportation Minis-ter Budi Karya Sumadi has said the land acquisition for the construction of the Ja-karta-Bandung rapid railway with the length of 142 kilome-ters will be completed in April 2018.

“What elating is that the land acquisition is under-way and will be completed in April,” Budi said at the Coor-dinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Jakarta, on Thursday (2/8).

Once the land acquisi-tion finished, the loan from the China Development Bank (CDB) will be disbursed. The total investment of the Ja-karta-Bandung high speed rail project is US$5.9 billion, 25% of which is the capital of a consortium of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and Chi-na while the rest is the CDB loan.

Of the 25%, China Railway International Co Ltd will in-ject 40% of the fund or about Rp7.5 trillion. The remain-ing 60% or about Rp11.5 tril-lion will be financed by the SOEs incorporated in PT Pi-lar Si nergi BUMN Indonesia (PSBI).

“The funding from China has not been liquid yet, pen-ding the finalization of land acquisition,” he added.

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Bin-

Kulon Progo Regent Has-to Wardoyo has said that the land acquisition for the deve-lopment of New Yogyakarta International Airport (NYIA) in Kulon Progo will be com-pleted in April 2018. He said he believed the target will be met.

“The target is in April it’s already finished,” Hasto said in a coordination meeting of the steering committee (BOB) at the Hotel Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta on Friday (2/9).

Hasto said he was opti-mistic the target was within the reach. Besides, PT Ang-kasa Pura I has set up a help desk at the Office of Develop-ment Project of NYIA. The re-sidents affected by the project can seek information at this office.

“The help desk is a new breakthrough to solve the problems one by one, espe-cially related to the protest of the residents,” he added.

According to him, after the launching of help desk most of the problems related to the residents’ protest against the

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necting Bekasi and Cikarang is 100%.

“This DDT project is vital to both long-distance and com-muter trains, so we will try to finish it in 2020 or faster than the previous plan in 2022. Surely we will develop the time management, financial ma-nagement, engineering and hu-man management to increase the capacity. The DDT will re-duce the losses suffered by the people from congestions on the highway which reach trillions rupiahs,” said the minister.

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Regent Irna: Pandeglang to Become Biggest Food Producer in Banten

Pandeglang Regent Hj Irna Narulita invites the community to continue developing the local food, especially the ones based on tubers as alternatives to the rice.

“Currently one of the chal-lenges is to change the mind-set of the people who consider if they haven’t eaten rice, they haven’t eaten yet. Now there is a movement of ‘isuk isuk teu da-har kejo’ (no rice for breakfast). Instead, we eat tubers like Ta-las Beneng which make our stomach quite full, rich in fi-ber and vitamins, does not con-tain sugar which is very good for health,” said Irna when at-tending the Local Food Festival and Cipta Menu Competition held by the Office of Resilience in Pandeglang Square, on Sun-day (2/4).

The event is one of the break-throughs of Pandeglang Re-gency Government through its Food Security Department to

conti nue introducing the Pan-deglang signature food to the Banten Province or even Na-tional level.

“We are confident that in the future, Pandeglang will become the biggest food produ cer in Banten Province, even nation-ally, but we are targeting for the Jabodetabek (Jakarta Bogor Depok Tangerang Bekasi) first of its current po pulation reach-ing 24 million people,” said Irna.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Food Security Department of Pandeglang added that this ac-tivity aimed to raise the poten-tial of local signature food in Pandeglang.

“The event was attended by 40 hotel chefs in Banten Pro-vince, Kelompok Wanita Tani (KWT), and SMEs. It is expected that hotels in Banten pro vince will serve local food in eve ry oc-casion, and then enhance the Pandeglang culinary tourism while proving that our food is

Regent Indra: Cooperation with PATA and President University Important for North Gorontalo Development

60,000 CCTVs to be Installed, Sandi: To Keep Jakarta Safe

Central Java Gover-nor Ganjar Pranowo inau-gurated the Digital Village of Sepakung, Banyubiru, Semarang Regency, in Ja-nuary. According to Gan-jar, with digital facilities, re-sidents can market village handicraft products to the potential buyers online.

“The village’s handicrafts made of pine wood and oth-er products must be mar-keted online,” he said.

The digitalization is ex-pected to make Sepakung to be more prosperous and in-dependent tourism village. To promote and socialize the

village’s tourism potential, with the help of the digital network-ing, the villagers, village go-vernment, district government, provincial government and col-lege academics should be hand in hand in synergy.

Previously the village of Sepakung has been chosen as the location of development prog ram by the University of PGRI Semarang (UPGRIS). “It started in 2017 with the launch-ing of Goscanung undertaken by KKN PPM UPGRIS students with grant funding from the Education Ministry,” said Head of Center for Community Em-powerment and KKN UPGRIS,

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more promising and healthy,” she said.

Some competitions were or-ganized and Hotel Wisata Baru won the category of chef, while Pandaya Cassava Rasa champi-oned the category of SMEs.

Other dignitaries attending the event were Director of Fruit and Flora of the Agriculture Ministry Sarwo Edi, Head of Banten Provincial Agriculture Office Agus M Tauchid, Chair-man of MUI Pandeglang KH. Hamdi Ma’ani, and the heads of district administrations in Pan-deglang. (PANDEGLANGKAB/TPP)

Drs. Sudargo MSi.Since the beginning of 2018,

the community service has been started by utilizing the potential of pine wood that is crafted into various forms of handicrafts that can be mar-keted by UPGRIS Mechani-cal Engineer Gostsa Khusnun Nau fal SPd MT. He advanc-es the potential of pine wood pieces in the Sepakung Village which originally are used as firewood for cooking.

Another partnership imple-mented in village is the Part-ners Village Development Pro-gram (PPDM) with multi-year grant funding from the Educa-tion Ministry, chaired by Dr. Iin Purnamasari MPd.

“The main program is ac-companiment for the Srikandi Farmer Group, Karang Taruna Lembah Telomoyo Sepa kung and Sadar Wisata Group,” Sudargo said.

In addition to the village of Sepakung, during his visit to Semarang Regency, Governor Ganjar also visited Pasekan Village, Ambarawa, to inau-gurate SROBI Hill Tour. Then he opened the regional meet-ing (Rakerda) of DPC Associa-tion of Government Apparatus of Indonesian Villages (Papde-si) in the Regent House, Sema-rang. (SM/TPP)

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Therefore, the regent said he hoped PATA would help work on the tourism potentials in the regency, given from 52 small islands in North Goron-talo only 2 which have been utilized as tourist destina-tions.

“I hope the cooperation with PATA will grow tourism in North Gorontalo more rapid-ly and make the region better known worldwide,” he said.

The regent also expressed his pride for the cooperation in education with President University as the universi-ty adopts education system at the international level.

“I must take the opportuni-ty of this educational coopera-

North Gorontalo Regency Government is intensively de-veloping its region. It began the development of its tourism by cooperating with Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) and its education with Presi-dent University. The coopera-tion agreements were signed at the President Lounge Menara Batavia, Jakarta, on Wednes-day (2/7).

North Gorontalo Regent In-dra Yasin in an interview with the presidentpost.id said, “The cooperation with PATA and President University is very good because for me tourism and education are important for the development of North Gorontalo.”

Vice Governor of DKI Jakarta Sandiaga Uno has said that 60,000 units of CCTV will be ins-talled in the capital city. According to him, the CCTVs are expected to prevent criminal acts from occurring like the sexual violence case happened on Monday (2/12) in Jatinegara, East Jakarta.

“We want to install 60,000 CCTVs all over Ja-karta. Now there are only 6,000 or 10 percent from the target. We want to make Jakarta safe also, not just smart city,” said Sandi at Kinanti Building, Setiabudi, South Jakarta, on Wednes-day (2/14).

Sandiaga further said the CCTV installation will be done in cooperation with the private sec-tor. He mentioned that the Department of Infor-mation and Statistic Communication (Kominfo-

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tion and require the students in Northern Gorontalo to make use of it,” Indra added.

The regent further said that he also hoped the cooperation in education and tourism will promote North Gorontalo in-ternationally.

He called on the youth in his region to utilize it. “This kind of opportunity will only come once. Use the best pos-sible of it, your parents will be proud that you take advantage of it.”

“Do not be a spectator in your own country. We will prove that Indonesian youth can also work and build the country for the better,” he con-cluded. (TPP)

tik) of DKI Jakarta has also proposed several programs to prevent criminal acts through the CCTV monitoring.

“This is what we will encourage. The Komin-fotik has proposed several programs regard-ing the collaboration with the private sector in installing the CCTVs. So far, the cooperation has been covering the utility of communica-tion and digital businesses. Next is the CCTV installation especially in the criminal prone areas,” said Sandi.

“We encourage this collaboration to be run continuously, a partnership between the lo-cal government and the business communi-ty, also involving the community,” he added. (DTK/TPP)

Kendal Regent Signs Inscription of 5 Projects in 2017

Kendal Regent dr. Mirna Anissa, M.Si, on Wednesday (2/14) inaugurated 5 projects of Fiscal Year 2017 at Brang-song II Health Center which is one of the projects. The inau-guration was attended by members of Forkopimda Ken-dal Regency.

The Kendal Regent signed an inscription for 5 complet-ed work packages in 2017, namely Brangsong II Commu-nity Development, Kangkung Market Development, Cons-truction of Niaga Port Office Building, Nutrition Building of RSUD dr. Soewondo Ken-dal and Rehabilitation of Irri-gation Channel in Dawungsari Village, Pegandon District.

Additionally, Mirna will also launch Smart PJU in the form of street lighting us-ing smart LED that makes it easy to monitor all the lights on the streets. The application of smart system will also au-tomatically send a message to PJU staff in charge if there is any problem on the street lighting. The content of the short message will not only provide information on the condition of the lamp failure, but also the location where the damage occurred.

After the launching, the re-gent held teleconference with Head of Community Health

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Center (Puskesmas) Rowosari 2, Sukorejo 1 and Kaliwungu.

The development showcase of Kendal Regency 2017 is also filled with bazaar of superi-or products made by Coope-ratives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises of Brang-song Subdistrict, as well as KWT of Agriculture and Food Office of Kendal Regen-cy which produced processed foods with local raw materials and PUPM of Agriculture and

Food of Kendal Regency which introduced Warung Tani Ken-dal, selling rice and onion un-der the market price.

The Puskesmas Brangsong II, which was inaugurated, has the motto of ‘Healthy Ser-vices with Love’. Services pro-vided are in the form of ge-neral treatments, IVA and IMS examinations and the intro-duction of herbal medicines from Griya Sehat. (KENDAL-KAB/TPP)

The Pandeglang culinary tourism while proving that our food is more promising and healthy.”

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As part of the expansion of the scope of degree progammes offered at President Universi-ty, in the fall of 2018 the disci-pline of civil engineering is to be introduced, a very welcome and vital contribution to the considerable shortfall in the number of civil engineering graduates working across the country. Civil engineering, the oldest such profession in rhe world, is fundamental to ad-dressing the huge investment in infrastructure that is need-ed across the archipelago for many decades ahead.

The capital investment for the construction industry in the country, whether in the erection of the many thou-sands of buildings needed for the urbanisation that is to take place for many years ahead, or to supply utilities to support human activities and all the various forms of trans-portation – roads, railways, ports and airports, is measur-able in the trillions of dollars. In addition. the structure of the profession and the indus-try is changing steadily to meet the challenges raised by the fast-moving digital econo-

my, and this needs to be re-cognised in the education of new graduates.

Civil engineering, as op-posed to its preceding military focus, was first recognised as an important subject follow-ing the end of the Napoleon-ic Wars in 1815 with the grow-ing potential need to improve land transport links as the In-dustrial Revolution of the late 18th century took off. The first professional body, the UK Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), was inaugurated in London in 1818, almost exact-ly two hundred years ago. The first university chair of Civil Engineering was established a few years later at the Uni-versity of Glasgow. Civil En-gineering became the founda-tion on which the Industrial Age flourished in Europe and then in America.

A notable impact on the fu-ture of civil engineering, along with most other disciplines, occurred with the discovery of the properties of the silicon chip and application to com-puter technology in the 1950s and, from a commercial point of view, the steady advances

in the scope of computer ca-pability. Over the ensuing de-cades, computers allowed en-gineers to steadily improve the scope and accuracy of de-sign calculations, eliminating the simplifying assumptions that had to be introduced in pre-computer days. With the growing capability of compu-ters, this led to the standardi-sation of design software even for complex problems and the more recent developments of 3-D imaging and design.

In parallel, with these de-sign features, computers also allowed the development of packages for project manage-ment systems and contract budgetary control. More re-cently, the introduction of Building Information Mo-delling (BIM), will have a big influence on the manner in which the construction indus-try operates in the future and on its efficiency. The industry has already introduced the application of robots where these can undertake certain tasks better than humans es-pecially when a particular ope ration involves an element of danger, such as in tunnel

Prof Scott Younger OBE DEng(Hon) PhDInternational Chancellor, President University

CIVIL ENGINEERING AT PRESIDENT UNIVERSITYboring tasks.

The future civil engineer will have the opportunity to gain experience across a very wide range of activities but will also be expected to play a major part in multidisci-plinary interactive roles, so that the social aspect of major works can be fully taken into account to ensure that results are sustainable as well as en-vironmentally sound.

Today’s civil engineering education and subsequent ex-perience opportunities offers a much more diverse range of jobs, and arguably, an even more exciting career than was possible in the pre-comput-er days when I became a civ-il engineer after education at Glasgow University and UC Berkeley.

I look forward to seeing you on campus.

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

Tourism Ministry Targets 60 Tour Packages for Participants of IMF - World Bank Group

Australian Investors Build First Marina in Indonesia Worth Rp1 Trillion

Ministry of Tourism has tar-geted 60 tour packages avail-able for the participants of An-nual Meeting of International Monetary Fund (IMF) - World Bank Group in October 2018 in Bali. Meanwhile, for the Asian Games on August 18 - Septem-ber 2, 2018 the ministry has pre-pared 70 tour packages.

Deputy for Tourism Mar-keting Development of the mi-nistry, I Gede Pitana, said that while speaking in the Coordi-nating Meeting of Tourism Prog-ram Synchronization and the Launching of Wonderful Event Calendar of Tambora Enchant-ment 2018 in Mataram on Thurs-day (2/22).

For the Asian Games, the mi-

nistry has prepared tour pack-ages to Bangka Belitung, Jakar-ta, South Sumatra even Bali and Lombok. As for the IMF-WBG de-legations, the holiday packages to be available are to Lombok, Ko-modo, Tanah Toraja, Yogyakarta, Lake Toba and Jakarta.

According to Pitana, he would not expect the direct results, but the afterwards like the Sidney Olympics and Beijing Olympics.

Pitana dismissed the alle-gations that organizing a festi-val is a waste of money. He cited Jember Fashion Carnival (JFC) which became widely known af-ter five years running. According to him, the development of tour-ism is not like planting seasonal crops. It takes a long time to get

To Boost Tourism, RI-Singapore Open Direct Flights to Belitung

Indonesia and Singapore have agreed to open direct flights, in-cluding the routes of Singapore-Belitung and Singapore-Lake Toba via Silangit Airport, Me-dan.

Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi said the opening of the direct flights is one effort to develop and strengthen the bilateral cooper-ation with Singapore in tourism.

“There are a lot of develop-ments in the bilateral coop-eration and on tourism both countries agreed to open direct flights such as to Lake Toba, Be-litung, Bintan, and Yogyakarta,” said Retno after meeting with Si-

ngapore Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan in Jakarta on Wednesday (2/14).

According to Retno, RI and Singapore also began to explore the cooperation on cruise ship tours that will sail from Marina Port, Singapore, to Indonesian tourist destinations like Medan, Palembang, Semarang, Suraba-ya, and Bali.

“Since last December the cruise line from Singapore to Bali has been opened. We are also de-veloping a partnership between Pelindo III and one company in Singapore to open the cruise line from Marina to Banyuwangi in East Java,” said Retno.

The tourism has become one of the salient sectors in the re-lations between the two coun-tries. Indonesian Ambassador to Singapore I Gusti Ngurah Swa-jaya said Singapore is the se-cond largest contributor of for-eign tourists to Indonesia after China.

On the other hand, Ngurah said, Indonesia is also the se-cond largest tourist origin coun-try to Singapore after China.

“Both of us used to be big-gest tourist sender to each other, but now are beaten by China. In fact, tourism has many econo-mic benefits and opportunities for both countries,” Ngurah said.

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He added the government is actively promoting 10 new tour-ist destinations that are not less exotic than Bali which has been the icon of Indonesian tourism in Singapore.

Ngurah also said tourism pro-motion is expected to encourage investors from Singapore and other countries to be interested to invest in Indonesia.

“We are promoting 10 new tourist destinations to not only bring in tourists but investors as well,” he said, adding the tour-ism could become a drivers to attract more investors to Indone-sia, considering last year the in-vestment value from Singapore dropped slightly.

In 2016, Singapore’s invest-ments in Indonesia reached US$9.2 million, while in 2017 it decreased to US$8.4 million. The decline, Ngurah said, was due to a number of large invest-ment projects came in through-out 2016.

“There were so many big pro-jects coming in during 2016 so that in 2017 it’s back to normal. We expect the year 2018 will at-tract large investments again. That is why we keep trying to strengthen the cooperation bet-ween the two countries,” said Ngurah. (CNN/TPP)

PT Marina Del Ray, owned by Australian investors, has begun the construction of marina com-plete with its supporting facili-ties by investing Rp1 trillion in Gili Gede waters, West Lombok Regency, West Nusa Teng gara (NTB). This marina will become the first cruise ship port in In-donesia.

“We have started the deve-lopment with the installation of floating jetty at the length of 80 meters and will continue with the installation of 150 meters pontoon,” said General Mana-ger of PT Marina Del Ray, Puri Yusuf, SH, who was accompa-nied by CEO of PT Marina Del Ray, Captain Raymond La Fon-taine, in West Lombok on Sun-day (2/11).

Puri said Gili Gede was cho-sen for its strategic location. It is a bay with calm waters, so it is suitable for marina, especially for the docking of yachts.

The Gili Gede area, under the authority of Gili Gede Indah Vil-lage, has also been visited sever-al times by tourists from various countries who came over using yachts.

To realize the project, Puri said she has taken care of all permits needed from the lo-cal governments of village, dis-trict, West Lombok Regency, NTB Province and the Ministry of Transportation as well.

PT Marina Del Ray has met all the requirements set by the government through the Minis-ter of Communication Regula-

tion 2017 on Special Terminals and Terminals for Own Use.

The regulation, said Puri, re-quires nine conditions to be met for building a yacht marina. Three of the conditions are en-vironmental management and monitoring reports (UKL-UPL), navigation survey and location permit.

“We have completed the UKL-UPL, the navigation survey has also been done by involving the Navigation Benoa Bali. Likewise with the location permit, we have fulfilled all the requirements,” she added.

The construction of the mari-na, according to her, is estimat-ed to cost up to Rp1 trillion. The fund is for building a marina, a resort and other related busi-nesses on six hectares of land in Gili Gede Indah Village. Addi-tionally, various infrastructures will also be built, ranging from hydropower plant to water pro-cessing plant to clean the waste-water after being used in the electricity production process at the hydropower plant.

According to Puri, the marina will provide benefits for the local people by working at the marina or providing tourist services by their own. (BRT1/TPP)

the outcome. Bali enjoys its glory after promotional acti-vities since 1920.

As ‘an elder brother’, Bali has been helping develop its neighboring areas, like Lom-bok which now receives many foreign tourists from Bali. E-very day there are tour groups to Gili Trawangan and sur-rounding areas. “Tourism makes the neighboring areas follow suit to grow. No need to compete,” Pitana said.

Head of Tourism Office of West Nusa Tenggara Lalu Moh Faozal said the province has four national tourism ca-lendars to be held in Lombok and Sumbawa Island.

The government has also scheduled the Pesona Moyo Festival and Festival of Tam-bora Enchantment to com-memorate the eruption of Tambora Mountain. The fes-tival will feature art and cul-tural performances in every regency on the island of Sum-bawa. ‘’It is hoped to remove the disparity between the destinations in Lombok and Sumbawa,’’ he said. (TMP/TPP)

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To Promote Tourism, President Agrees Governor Build Airport in North Bali

or on the coastal area,” said the governor.

Previously the president summoned Coordinating Minister for Maritime Af-fairs Luhut Binsar Panjai-tan to discuss the involve-ment of private companies in building and managing airports. “We will do it soon. Our spirit is involving the private sector,” he said.

Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika said he made sure that the air-port would not be built on the productive land of pad-dy fields nor the historical sites. The location has been determined about 19 kilo-meters east of Singaraja, the capital city of Buleleng Re-gency.

The governor called on the Buleleng residents to prepare their best tourist destinations as well as pre-pare themselves to welcome the tourists from all around the world coming to North Bali. During this time most of the tourists are only inter-ested to come to South Bali.

In general, Bali is di-vided into South Bali and North Bali. Bali is famous as a favorite tourist destina-tion for foreign and domestic tourists. Unfortunately, the tourism industry is growing more rapidly in South Bali than North Bali. So now the local government is try-ing to push the deve lopment of tourism in North Bali. (WRT/TPP)

In a limited meeting with the Bali governor, President Joko Widodo agreed on the construction of an airport in North Bali to develop tour-ism in Bali. The president said since Bali relies on the tourism heavily, the in-frastructures must be ade-quate.

“Bali needs one more air-port,” he said on Thursday (2/22) in Jakarta.

Currently Bali only has one international airport of Ngurah Rai in Badung Re-gency, South Bali. People in North Bali want one more airport in Buleleng Regen-cy to support the growth of tourism there. The gover-nor and the Buleleng regent have issued their approvals for the construction of the airport.

Jokowi said he let the governor of Bali to decide on how to develop the air-port. According to the Bali governor, there is an inves-tor who is ready to build the airport. “We have consult-ed with the Transportation Minister to determine the lo-cation whether over the sea

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Ikimura Group, Indonesian Creation Recognized by Japan

Shopee, the leading e-com-merce company in Southeast Asia and Taiwan has hosted a special shopping campaign, en-titled “Shopee Days of Love” on February 1-14, presenting up to 80% discount and the chance to win the Grand Prize of dia-mond ring. It previously in-troduced its Brand Ambassa-dor Prilly Latuconsina at the Lucy in The Sky, Jakarta, on Wednesday (2/7).

The collaboration with Pril-ly is a manifestation of Shop-ee’s strong commitment to pro-viding the best online shopping

experience for the costum-ers and building strong rela-tionships with them whom are mostly millennial generation.

“The millennial market is de-veloping well and we are look-ing for a brand ambassador who can keep up with it. Hope-fully with Prilly, we will bring the millennials closer to Shop-ee,” said the Brand Manager of Shopee.

Shopee CEO Chris Feng said the Shopee consumer base in Indonesia is dominated by the age group of 15-25 years old. Even the merchant partners are mostly young in the age group of 25-30 years old.

“Millennials are the majori-ty of our stakeholders,” he said.

It becomes increasingly im-portant and effective to engage with the millennial generation as the agent of change in the digital world and as one of the main drivers to grow the e-com-merce industry in Indonesia. According to Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) data, the mil-lennial generation is 32% of the total population. In Shopee In-donesia, the number of millen-nial users increased by 5 times compared to the previous year.

Shopee has been download-ed more than 25 million times

Shopee Consumers in Indonesia Dominated by Millennial Generation

Started his career as a sales-man, Abas was reprimanded by his superior with a senseless rea-son. Having mastered the busi-ness, Abas decided to resign and started his own trading compa-

in Indonesia. Since its launch, Indonesia has become one of Shopee’s biggest markets. Shopee has also managed to reach users in 515 cities and counties across the country.

Shopee is the leading e-com-merce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan. It is a cus-tomized platform for the region, providing an easy, secure, and fast online shopping experience through powerful payment and logistical support.

Shopee pledged to continu-ously upgrade its platform to become the preferred e-com-merce. Shopee has a wide selec-tion of products ranging from electronics to home, health & beauty, baby & kids, fashion and fitness.

Shopee was first launched in Singapore in 2015, and has since expanded its coverage into Malaysia, Thailand, Tai-wan, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. Sea Limited is a leader in digital entertain-ment, e-commerce and digi-tal financial services in South-east Asia. The Sea’s mission is to improve the lives of consum-ers and small businesses with technology, and is listed on the NYSE under the SE symbol. (TPP)

Ikimura Group was established in 1991 by Hadrianto Abas who has been in the business on steel and metal cutting tools for 36 years.

CENTER, IKITECH PRECISION GRINDING, MACHINING MAN-DIRI PRATAMA, DELTA LOGAM MAKMUR, MULTI PRECISION UTAMA) with a total workforce of 400 people. About Rp200 bil-lion has been invested by Abas to build a business dynasty that is currently assisted by his daugh-ter Abigael Jane and his son Jo-nathan Abas.

With 80 percent clients are automotive companies from Ja-pan, Abas decided to get closer to the clients located in the Jababe-ka Industrial Estate Cikarang in 2005.

A factory sized 800 m2 on the land area of 1,800 m2 was estab-lished in Southeast Asia’s largest industrial estate, as the produc-tion center of Ikitech, one of the subsidiaries of Ikimura Group, which has one of the best engine facilities in Indonesia, supported by Bekasi Power, Cikarang Dry Port, Water Treatment Plant and other complete facilities from Ja-

babeka.According to Abas, the auto-

motive spare parts manufactur-ers both cars and motorcycles turn out to need a lot of cutting tools with specific design, size, and tolerance. “So, we cannot buy in Glodok and use them di-rectly. They must be modified first into a specific design. This is what our company do, to meet the custom requirements of the clients.”

Jane added such tools were used to be imported which be-came very expensive and needed up to 3 months to arrive.

To deal with the tough compe-tition, Jonathan said good ser-vice was one of the keys. “Many Japanese companies are operat-ing 24 hours, so sometimes we got an order at 1 am or on Sun-day at 4 am.”

The name Ikimura makes people think that IIC is a Ja-panese company, but Abas ex-plained that Ikimura comes from

the Javanese language which means it’s cheap. Abas did not think that the name Ikimura in Japanese means Technology Kampong which is certainly very good.

With the motto of hones-ty and integrity, Abas’ business becomes fruitful. He has estab-lished cooperation with 300 cus-tomers, including Toyota, Astra Honda, Honda Prospect and Ya-maha.

“With Yamaha it needs 3 years to get the PO with 2 years of trial, Toyota is just as difficult,” said Abas.

In the future Abas expects to enter the export market. “Our target is to Japan. Now there are exports but small-scale to South Africa, Malaysia and the Philip-pines,” he said.

Closing the interview, Abas said that Indonesian people in-deed have the capability to com-pete in the manufacturing in-dustry worldwide. (TPP)

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in Special Economic Zone PT Jababeka Morotai, a sub-

sidiary of PT Jababeka Tbk, has officially launched its first condo-tel product located in the Moro-tai Special Economic Zone under the name of D’Aloha Loft Studio Apartment.

D’Aloha Loft Studio Apart-ment consists of 120 units but now there are only 80 units left for flat studio measuring 17.5 m2. The flat studio comes in fully-fur-nished and will be managed as a hotel room by the management of D’Aloha Resort Jababeka Morotai under the profit sharing concept of 50:50.

D’Aloha Loft Studio Apartment is offered at the prices starting from Rp110 million to Rp180 mil-lion. The interesting thing is that this condotel provides 80 years of HGB (freehold title) for foreign in-vestors with KITAS Morotai mini-mal 5 years.

The limited marketing Stra-ta Title Certified Condotel has a return of investment (ROI) for 6

years with a down payment (DP) 0%. The buyers can pay in install-ments at Rp2,500,000/month for 72 months. The price includes VAT (value added tax) as well as Free Maintenance Fee and Ser-vice Charge.

The owners of D’Aloha Loft Stu-dio Apartment units will get free stay for 21 days or equivalent to a voucher valued at Rp8.000.000 in 1 year for 5 years.

If the owners of the loft stu-dio units bring in a guest to stay at the D’Aloha Loft Studio, then eve ry night spent by the guest will generate 1 point of member-ship for the owners. The member-ship points can be redeemed for Rp50,000-vouchers and use them to stay at the D’Aloha Loft Studio. The vouchers can be accumulat-ed before use and are valid for 1 year from the date the vouchers

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are issued.Meanwhile, the cost of mi-

nor renovation/repair of the apartment units during the operations and beyond will be done by the hotel management using the funds generated from the hotel’s operating net income (set aside 10%/year).

D’Aloha Loft Studio is equipped with several excel-lent facilities such as Restau-rant, Cafe, Shopping Center, Function Hall for Meeting and Events, Gym, Jogging Track and 24 Hour Security.

D’Aloha Loft Studio is lo-cated in the Special Econo-mic Zone (KEK) of Morotai with a travel time only 20 mi-nutes from the Pitu Morotai International Airport which is planned to be fully operatio-nal in early 2019. (TPP)

To Increase Exports, Sido Muncul Opens Offices in the Philippines and Nigeria

PT Industri Jamu and Pharmaceutical Sido Mun-cul Tbk (SIDO) is pushing its overseas sales. The company has even established subsi-diaries abroad acting as a marketing chain.

Sido Muncul has opened its marketing offices in the Phi-lippines and Nigeria to have direct sales in both countries.

“Previously we only export the products, but now for the Philippines and Nigeria, we will act as importer too and do active sales,” said Direc-tor of Finance of Sido Muncul Venancia Sri Indijati at the Ener gy Building, Jakarta, on Wednesday (1/31).

According to Venancia, currently Sido Muncul pro-ducts have been exported to 16 countries, including Ma-laysia, the Netherlands, the United States and Africa. However, the company only acts as an exporter and does not distri-bute the products itself.

The exported Sido Muncul products of Tolak Angin and Kuku Bima was below 1% in 2016 of the total sales, then increased twice in 2017. For this year, the company tar-gets to increase the exports to 5 percent.

Venancia said the estab-lishment of Sido Muncul mar-keting office in the Philippines has been approved and is ex-pected to start operating in April 2018.

Meanwhile in Nigeria, the marketing office is still under the registration process. Even so the company is still export-ing to the country through its partner importers there.

The marketing office of Sido Muncul in Nigeria will be ope rated under the com-pany called Muncul Nige-ria Limited. The capital need-ed to establish the company amounted to 10 million Nai-ra or equivalent to Rp370.27 million.

The capital is transformed into 10 million shares valued at 1 Naira per share. The com-pany owns 99% of the shares, while the rest is owned by Ma-ria Reviani. (DTK/TPP)

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Standard Chartered: Indonesian Economy to Grow 5.2 Percent in 2018

Government Invites AirAsia to Invest in Indonesian Airports

Standard Chartered Indonesia held a press conference regard-ing Wealth on Wealth (WoW) fi-nancial seminar at the Hotel Mu-lia Senayan, Jakarta, on Tuesday (2/6), attended by CEO Rino Do-nosepoetro, Executive Director and Head of Wealth Management Bambang Simarno, and Chief Economist Aldian Taloputra.

“The WoW seminar marks the 14th year of the bank’s commit-ment to consistently share the view with the customers to guide them in investing, along with the dynamics of global financial mar-kets that also affect the national economic situation,” said Rino.

He added that amid the electo-ral season which usually causes a turmoil somehow, but the strong fundamentals will push the national GDP to keep grow-ing driven by private consump-tion and investment.

“We also expect the retail sec-tor will grow. We predict the eco-nomic growth will reach 5.2 per-cent and even at 5.3 percent due to the promising indicators,” Rino said.

In the meantime Bambang said, “The WoW seminar is a re-flection of our commitment where customers are the top priority of the bank. Through the WoW plat-form, we are committed to guid-ing the customers on their in-vestment options based on an understanding of global, regional and national economic markets and the dynamics of changing fi-

Tourism Minister Arief Yahya has said that many airlines are interested to invest in or open routes to tourist destinations in Indonesia.

One of them is AirAsia Indone-sia who wants to provide low cost carrier (LCC) services to some fa-vored tourism locations such as Silangit, Banyuwangi, and Beli-tung.

“The aviation company has suggested the airports to have LCC terminal, just like in the countries whose tourism has de-veloped well,” said Arief at the Presidential Palace, Jakarta, on Tuesday (2/20).

He further said that the LCC terminal is designed for cheap-er airline services. For exam-ple, the passenger service charge which is usually Rp200,000, for LCC it is only Rp150,000 or even Rp100,000.

“We offer the company to build an LCC terminal in Banyuwa-ngi, Silangit, and Belitung. So it’s not an LCC airport but termi-nal, like in the Soekarno-Hatta Airport where there are 3 termi-nals and one of them is allocat-ed for the budget flights. Such

nancial priorities every year according to customers’ needs at every stage of life.”

Aldian added, “With a fair-ly conservative budget deficit target of 2.2 percent of GDP, we believe that the govern-ment has room to increase spending in line with im-proved prospects for tax re-venues. It is expected that private consumption will be relatively stable this year, sup-ported by the availability of jobs, controlled inflation, and financial stability. The private investment will also be able to increase due to the improving economic climate.”

During the WoW Seminar, Standard Chartered also in-troduced a new wealth ma-nagement product, named Bahana Dana Ekuitas Prima (DEP), a stock mutual fund with index strategy that of-fers competitive value and op-timum diversification.

DEP provides an aggressive investment risk profile by in-vesting in IDX30, 30 selective shares selected from LQ45 with the criteria of high li-quidity and best performance. The IDX30 showed more opti-mum returns than other in-dexes in the last five years.

To meet the customers’ needs for life insurance as well as investment, Stan-dard Chartered Bank in part-nership with Prudential In-donesia presents two latest investment funds in US Dol-lar called PRUlink US Dollar Global Low Volatility Equity Fund (DGLV) and PRUlink US Dollar Global Emerging Mar-kets Equity Fund (DGEM) at-tached to the unit link pro-duct of VERSAlink investor account (single premium) and VERSAlink maxima account (regular premium). (TPP)

PP Properti to Market TOD Project at Juanda Station in Second Half of 2018

FWD Life Launches Digital Insurance FWD LooP

PP Properti Tbk (PPRO) is still waiting for the licensing comple-tion for the project of Transit Ori-ented Development (TOD) which is integrated with the mass transportation mode. The com-pany cannot yet start the cons-truction or market the project before the permit is issued.

Director of PP Properti Galih Saksono said that the marketing of the vertical housing project, to be built in the area of Juan-da Station, will be done after the building permit (IMB) is is-sued. “We are still in the process of taking care of the permit,” he said on Thursday (2/15).

Although has yet to be mar-keted, Galih said, PP Proper-ti started to test the market in the fourth quarter of 2017 af-ter conducted a groundbreak-ing ceremony. According to him, the market response to the pro-ject was so good that the compa-ny keeps trying to complete the

building permit immediately.Galih added that the project

development would not need a long time, but the time needed to get the building permit in Jakar-ta is indeed relatively long, about six to seven months. “We are ta-king care the regular IMB per-mit.”

The groundbreaking for the vertical housing project to be built in the area of Tanah Abang Station has also been done at the same time with the Juanda Sta-tion project, but it will be built and marketed next year. Galih said he will focus on the Juanda Station project first because the market response has been very good.

According to Galih, the pros-pect of developing the property business with TOD concept will increasingly in demand in the future, because the location is close or integrated with the mass transportation mode so that it

Developing Smart Port, Cikarang Dry Port Officially Launches MyCDP Application

Cikarang Dry Port (CDP), a land port managed by PT Ci-karang Inland Port, officially launched MyCDP application that can be accessed through android smartphone at the Djakarta Theater XXI Club, Jakarta, on Wednesday (2/7).

The MyCDP app is part of the smart port vision that is being developed by the com-pany.

Aimed at facilitating the customers in performing their activities at the Cikarang Dry Port, the smart port concept began with the implementa-tion of auto gate system. Then it was added with the elec-tronic delivery order system (e-DO) when some services companies started to operate at the land port.

Now the smart port con-cept at the Cikarang Dry Port is completed with the mobile application which will make it easier for the users to manage their logistics activities by us-ing their smart phone when-ever and wherever they want.

Benny Woenardi, Manag-ing Director of Cikarang Dry Port in his speech said, “We launch the MyCDP to facili-tate the users of CDP servic-es that can be accessed any-where and anytime through their smart phones. Various parties involved in the chain of logistics activities will be in-terconnected via the Internet and the cloud.”

“For the next stage we will develop an online payment system that, when combined with previous facilities, will streamline the business pro-cesses and improve the be-nefits of our onshore port ser-vices. This is what we call the concept of smart port,” he

concluded.The MyCDP application has 5

features plus 1 additional func-tionality. The 5 features are As-sign, Container Tracking, Reef-er Data, Tariff Simulation, and Feeder Service, while the 1 ad-ditional functionality is Notifica-tion.

The Assign feature allows you to associate your bill of lading with your transport and/or truck providers when picking up the imported containers.

The Container Tracking fea-ture provides information on the position of import-export con-tainers and monitor the time of in and out of the seaports or CDP.

The Data Reefer provides in-formation on the condition and temperature of reefer containers while in the CDP area, so the us-ers can monitor it.

The Tariff Simulation feature helps the users to estimate the total cost of terminals in accor-dance with the date of exit.

Meanwhile the Feeder Service feature is useful for monitoring and ordering the feeder of export delivery, import picking up and domestic transport.

There is also a Notification function, useful for informing the exit or enter time of the contain-ers from/to the seaport or Cika-rang Dry Port.

The forwarder or PPJK will be immediately notified if the truck-er has entered or exited the CDP area. This additional function will appear like a pop-up of in-coming messages on the smart phone.

The MyCDP app can be down-loaded from Google Play with the keyword “Cikarang Dry Port” or “MyCDP”. Upon the registration, the CPD will verify the input data first before giving an ID to the customer. (TPP)

FWD Life I n d o n e s i a (FWD Life) launched a life insurance product called FWD LooP at the Empiri-ca Jakarta on Monday (2/12). The FWD LooP is distributed online to bring new experi-ences in insurance.

Providing complete protection, including critical illness benefit at an affordable price, the launch of FDW LooP is expected to in-crease the relatively low pene-tration rate of life insu rance at 2.99% of Gross Domestic Prod-uct (GDP). This is due to the public’s assumption on life in-surance which is difficult to un-derstand and expensive.

FWD Life President Direc-tor Choo Sin Fook said, “Our vi-sion is to change the way people think about insurance and we are committed to keep innovat-ing to meet the people’s need for

complete protection insurance products at affordable prices. In line with the technology deve-lopment, we make life insurance purchases as easy as shopping online.”

Chief Product Proposition & Sharia of FWD Life Ade Bungsu said that FWD Life is committed to bring unique differentiation in every product.

“Previously, FWD Life present-ed personal accident benefit as the only insurance product that guarantees protection for high-risk activities called ACTU-FREE and launched a Less Exclusion initiative that reduces the excep-

tions to all FWD Life products,” said Ade.

He added, “In 2018, FWD Life launches the latest product of FWD LooP that offers three main advantages: value, fairness and simplicity.”

Meanwhile on the same oc-casion, FWD Life Director and Chief Agency Officer Hendra Thanwijaya said, “One of the key strengths of FWD LooP is in the combination of online channels and agencies that streamline the purchasing process.”

According to him, through the online channels, the cus-tomers can first learn the fea-tures of products and benefits offered anytime and anywhere. After that, the interested custom-ers can make an appointment to meet with an agent to complete the process of purchasing at the place and time desired by the customer.

“The simplification of this pro-cess makes the insurance pur-chase more convenient and ef-fective not only for the customers but also for our agents,” he con-cluded. (TPP)

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arrangement will benefits tour-ism,” Aried added.

Earlier, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Pan-jaitan met with CEO of Air-Asia Group Tony Fernandes. Accord-ing to Luhut, in the meeting Tony presented his plan to develop Si-langit International Airport in North Sumatra as a hub for air-lines serving the internatio nal routes.

“Tony Fernandes wants to in-vest in Silangit to make it a hub for flights from India, Pakistan, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Chi-na, and Thailand,” said Luhut in his office on Monday (2/19).

AirAsia is also willing to in-vest in the development of Blim-bingsari Airport in Banyuwangi, East Java. (DTK/TPP)

will become a necessity in big cities.

In addition to Juanda Sta-tion, PPRO will also develop a TOD-based project in Jababe-ka under the cooperation with PT Grahabuana Cikarang. They will build a mixed use complex that covers apart-ment and commercial area in the form of Japanese con-cept mall. The project, adopt-ing the concept of little Tokyo, is planned to be marketed in the second half of 2018.

“The project in Jababeka will be a TOD-based develop-ment, which will be connect-ed to the Jakarta-Bandung speed train and complement-ed with other transportation modes from and to the oth-er regions,” Galih said. (KON-TAN/TPP)

Tony Fernandes wants to invest in Silangit to make it a hub for flights from India, Pakistan, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, China, and Thailand.”

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Jonan Cuts 22 Regulations on Electricity, Mining, Oil and Gas

POWERMAX 2018 the leading of the Indonesia Primary Energy Summit Exhibition and Conference 2018

Continuing the successful story of POWERMAX 2017, the 2nd edition of POWER-MAX 2017 coming up to be the international platform to present the prospect of pow-er-energy outlook and the lat-est project, providing market and industrial player, show-case the update new devel-opment technology and infor-mation to spur the industry sector globally.

POWERMAX 2018 is point-ed to take the leading and connecting industry in the sector energy and Power Plant covering from upstream, mid and downstream. The 2nd edition of POWERMAX 2018 is provide new look incorpo-rating with The Indonesia Pri-mary Energy Summit 2018 for Conference Program (IPE

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2018) will held by top key note speakers to industrial outlook update for Power Plant and Re-newable energy sector, POWER-MAX 2018 perform new concept featuring Renewable Energy, oil & Gas and Mining.

POWERMAX 2018 is co-orga-nized by Prakarsa Jaringan Cer-das Indonesia (PJCI), hosted by National Energy Council (DEN) for Conference Program and also supported by Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Indo-nesia. The event will be held in Jakarta International Expo (JI-EXPO), Kemayoran on 28-30 No-vember 2018 Hall D1. JIEXPO Kemayoran Chosen as the ven-ues consider of the strategic, easy accessible to the vital spot in Ja-karta ad also its perfect place for MICE Industry.

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Energy and Mineral Resourc-es (ESDM) Minister Ignasius Jonan has revoked 22 out of 51 regulations in the ESDM sector, leaving it to only 29. The regula-tions on oil and gas are simpli-fied from 10 to 7, on electricity from 2 to 1, on mining from 6 to 1, on EBTKE from 6 to 2, on SKK from 27 to 18.

“We have thrown out 22 reg-ulations in the hope to boost investment with the target of US$50 billion this year. It is al-most twice that 2017 target,” Jonan said in a press conference at his office on Monday (2/12).

Ten regulations on oil and gas field are:

1. Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MESDM) Regulation no. 16/2011 on Oil Fuel Distribution Activities

2. MESDM Regulation no. 26/2009 on Supply and Distri-bution of LPG

3. MESDM Regulation no. 037/2006 on Procedure for Sub-mission of Import and Settle-ment of Goods for Upstream Business Operations

4. MESDM Regulation no. 06/2016 on Stipulation of Allo-cation, Utilization and Price of Natural Gas

5. MESDM Regulation no. 38/2017 on Safety Inspection of

Installation and Equipment in Oil and Gas Business Activities

6. MESDM Regulation no. 35/2008 on Procedures for De-termination and Tender of Work-ing Areas

7. MESDM Regulation no. 36/2008 on Procedures for De-termination and Tender of Work-ing Areas of Methane Gas, Coal, Oil and Gas

8. MESDM Regulation no. 05/2012 on Procedures for De-termination and Tender of Non-Conventional Oil and Gas Work-ing Areas

9. MESDM Regulation no. 01/2011 on Technical Guidelines for Offshore Oil and Gas Offload-ing

10. MESDM Regulation no. 27/2008 on Oil and Gas Sup-porting Business Activities

Two regulations on electrici-ty are:

1. MESDM Regulation no. 0045/2005 on Electricity Instal-lation

2. MESDM Regulation no. 046/2006 on Amendment to MESDM Regulation no. 0045/2005 on Installation

ElectricitySix regulations on mining are:1. MESDM Regulation no.

12/2011 on Procedures for De-termination of WUP and Infor-

ed to answering the challenge and opportunity of Power Plant and Manufacturing-Automation industry and its prospective in Indonesia 2018 ahead.

POWERMAX event held to en-courage the Indonesia Govern-ment program to actualize elec-tricity supply to reach capacity 35000 MW and supply the en-ergy national throughout blue print National Energy supply Agency (Badan Pengelola Ener-gi Nasional 2015-2025). Keeping eye on develop market to accel-erate national economic growth by inviting the investor through POWERMAX event.

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mation System of Mineral and Coal Mining Areas

2. MESDM no. 25/2016 on Amendment to MESDM Regula-tion 12/2011 on Procedures for Establishment of WUP and In-formation System of Mineral and Coal Mining Areas

3. Ministerial Regulation no. 28/2013 on Procedures for Auc-tion of WIUP and WIUPK on Min-ing Business Activities of Miner-als and Coal

4. MESDM Regulation no. 34/2017 on Licensing Mineral and Coal Mining Areas

5. ESDM Regulation no. 15/2017 on Procedures for IUPK Production Operation as a Con-tinuation of KK or PKP2B Oper-ation

6. Decree of ESDM no. 1453/2000 on Technical Guide-lines for Implementation of Gov-ernment Duties in General Min-ing

Six regulations on New and Renewable Energy and Conser-vation (EBTKE) are:

1. MESDM Regulation no. 18/2014 on Labeling Energy Saving for Swabalast Lamps

2. MESDM Regulation no. 57/2017 on Implementation of Minimum Energy Performance Standard and Inclusion of Ener-gy Efficient Label for Air Condi-tioning Equipment

3. MESDM Regulation no. 44/2016 on Forms and Proce-dures for Placement and Dis-bursement of Commitments in Geothermal Exploration

4. MESDM Regulation no. 21/2017 on Management of Mud and Dust Waste from Geother-mal Drilling

5. MESDM Regulation no. 36/2017 on Procedures for As-signment of Preliminary Survey and Assignment of Preliminary and Geothermal Survey

6. MESDM Regulation no. 37/2017 on Geothermal Work-ing Areas for Indirect Use. (DTK/TPP)

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Kratingdaeng Organizes

“Kratingdaeng Supercrosser The Ultimate

Dirtwar”

The Kratingdaeng energy drink held a press conference at the 101 Hundred Eatery Bar, Century Park Senayan, on Thursday (2/15) regarding the “Kratingdaeng Supercross-er The Ultimate Dirtwar” to be organized with the concept of roadshow race in 12 cities in Indonesia, while introducing the latest logo of the event.

The 12 cities are Malang, Kediri, Tegal, Purwakarta, Ci-karang, Palembang, Yogyakar-ta, Semarang, Tasik, Jombang, Dieng and Bandung. There will be 15 series of motor racing of Endurocross, Powertrack, Su-percross and predicted to at-tract more than 10,000 specta-tors as well as 1,000 Grasstrack and Motocross racers.

The press conference was attended by Brand Manager

of Kratingdaeng Sigid Hindo-rosetu, Marketing Director of Kratingdaeng Davin Thomas Lai, Secretary General of the Indonesian Motor Accosiation (IMI) Ir. Jefri JP, and Organiz-er Juadiarto.

In cooperation with IMI, the Kratingdaeng Supercross-er The Ultimate Dirtwar is ex-pected to generate young pro-fessional racers in Indonesia. The first series will consist of 6 (six) rounds of Endurocross to take place in Malang (March 4), Tegal (March 11), Yogyakar-ta (March 18), Kediri (March 25), Purwakarta (April 15), and Cikarang (April 29).

The race is divided into classes of local hobby, local open, import hobby and import open, according to the skill of each racer. While the Enduro-

cross is accommodating the lo-cal racers, the Powertrack and Supercross will involve the na-tional and international ra-cers.

Marketing Director of Kratingdaeng Davin Tho-mas Lai said, “This event is a Kratingdaeng idea to ele-vate the existence of Indone-sian racers in the hope that both the Grasstrack and Moto-cross racers can be more mo-tivated to improve their skill and also as an arena for the national racers to demonstrate their skills and improve their achievements.”

Kratingdaeng will also re-cruit Supercrosser/Racer with a good achievement to serve as Kratingdaeng athlete and win an interesting prize. So this is a golden opportunity for the

Jakarta Heli Club Offers Sensation to Own Helicopter Without Buying

said, “It’s very inefficient if we are stuck in the car.”

He mentioned that helicop-ter is very significant to cut down traveling time from one point to another. The Jakar-ta Heli Club also made a new breakthrough where investors can have a helicopter without having to buy a helicopter.

“By joining the Jakar-ta Heli Club member-ship, every member is able to use the helicopter and even they can put their logo on the copter,” he added.

On the same occasion, Iwan Darmawan Hanafi as Chair-

man of Jakarta Heli Club said that this new club was estab-lished one and a half years ago and it is a new transporta-tion innovation in Indonesia.

“Jakarta Heli Club is a new means of transporta-tion in Indonesia and now we have started with the first membership system in Indonesia,” said Iwan.

Meanwhile, the famous Tung Desem Waringin ex-plained the benefits of be-coming a Founder Member. One of them is the price for such a member is cheaper than if somebody hires a heli-

The congestion in Jakar-ta is getting worse. Jakarta Heli Club gave a joy f light to the businessmen at Jababeka Golf and Country Club, Ci-karang, on Thursday (2/22).

Congestion is one of the main problems of the Capi-tal City of Jakarta and vari-ous ways have been done by the government to overcome the traffic jams such as LRT and elevated toll roads. But this is not in line with the ra-pid growth of vehicle number which reaches 10% a year.

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Emil Salim: Offshore Embankment Solution for Floods and Robs in North Areas of Java Island

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The Indonesian Business Data Center (PDBI) held a summit themed “Jakarta to Sink without Reclamation?” at the President Lounge of Batavia Tower, Jakar-ta, on Thursday (2/1). The event was attended by Prof. Dr. Emil Salim, Joe Cochrane from The New York Times, Daliana Sur-yawinata (a master plan designer of Jakarta Jaya) from SHAU Ar-chitects and Christianto Wibiso-no from PDBI.

In his presentation, Emil Sa-lim said that Java Island has be-come Island City, where tens of millions of people live on fertile land. Emil said he was worried

about the fertile land that should ensure the sustainability of Indo-nesian food, but lately most of it had turned into urban areas.

“The island of Java is hit by strong waves from the north, es-pecially Central Java, so its land looks different from other parts of Java,” he said.

Emil explained that the con-dition is exacerbated by unequal development, more in the north than the south so that the is-land sustains heavy and un-balanced loads. “Not to mention about excessive use of ground-water, causing lack of water and land subsidence.”

“All these, coupled with global warming factor that causes the sea level rise; we don’t need a Phd degree to see logically what will happen next,” he added.

Emil also mentioned vari-ous chronic flood and rob prob-lems in the northern coast of Java, ranging from environmen-

tal damage in the upstream, watershed, sedimentation, groundwater retention, ri sing sea level due to the global warming, garbage and so on.

The solution offered by Email is the Offshore Em-bankment (TLP), “The solu-tion is the Offshore Levee. This is a holistic solution to the problems of flood and rob,” he added.

According to him, the TLP will prevent sea water from seeping through the land, the river mud se-diment from en-tering the sea to form new coral ha-bitat, sea water in-trusion, and heavy metal contami-nation on estuary beach, while creating a vigor-ous retention lake, a reservoir of fresh water in a very large amount even greater than Ja-tiluhur, a harbor within 20 meters without dredging, and creating new large plains.

“The new plains will be state-owned to be used as much as possible for the wel-fare of the people,” he said.

Emil closed his presen-tation in the hope that the TLP would be built adopt-ing the techniques deve-loped by Indonesian experts led by John Wirawan and his friends in Jakarta, Bandung, and Semarang. The tech-niques are believed to be able to save the land from subsid-ence while saving the natu-ral paths of fishermen to the Java Island. “Fishermen are the poorest people in Indo-nesia, so their interests must take precedence,” he said. (TPP)

copter without becoming one.“Additionally, you can also

buyback when you are no long-er a member. The requirement is very easy, you just have to be a member for 3 years. After that, it’s up to you,” he said.

At the end of event, the founder members and invi-tees were given the oppor-tunity to have a joy f light with H125 Airbus helicop-ter round trip. According to the plan, 12 units of heli-copters will be operated with currently 27 founder mem-bers have already joined the Jakarta Heli Club. (Eva /TPP)

Bio-Oil Launches 200ml Package

PT Radiant Sentra Nutrindo introduced Bio-Oil 200ml during the event of ‘Bio-Oil Your Healthy Skin Habit’ at the Kertanegara Resital Hall, Jakarta, on Tuesday (2/13).

The new member of the Bio-Oil family comes as a complement to the packages of 25ml, 60ml and 125ml already in the mar-ket. Nowadays Indonesian wo-men are driven to have a good ha-bit in caring for healthy skin and transfer the habit to the nearest environment.

“That has encouraged us to bring in the Bio-Oil 200ml as a practical skincare product with bigger volume. We expect Indo-nesian women will transfer their habit in caring for their skin to the other women close to them,” said Ida Ayu Suksmawadanti, a representative of PT Radiant Sen-tral.

Most of Indonesian women want to keep their skin healthy although they have to do various activities. “For women especial-ly those who are living in Jakar-ta, pollution and climate change may cause a variety of problems on their skin, such as dull and dry, more sensitive, or uneven skin color,” said dr. Kelvin A. Ma-haris, who attended the launch of Bio-Oil 200ml.

He advised to have healthy habits with simple deeds. “Clean the face regularly after doing an activity, using a moisturizer that contains antioxidants every morning and night after bathing. In addition to vitamin E, other ing redients that provide skin pro-tection are Calendula which acts in reducing the inflammation

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and calm the skin, and Rose-mary which acts as a mild anti-septic.”

Nurhayatini, Product Manag-er of PT Radiant Sentral Nutrin-do said, “Bio-Oil is a complete skin care product but practical to be carried and used at all times. Although based on oil, Bio-Oil is easily absorbed by the skin, thanks to a breakthrough ing-redient of PurCellin Oil ™ that makes Bio-Oil known as dry oil.”

She also emphasized that Bio-Oil 200ml has the same benefits and ingredients as the previous packages. Its natural essentials of Chamomile, Calendula, La-vender, Rosemary and Vitamins A and E are effective to nourish dehydrated skin and smoothe it after being exposed to the sun.

Kotak Band members Tan-tri and Chua shared their expe-riences during pregnancy which caused stretch marks on their tummy skins. They regularly ap-plied Bio-Oil on the stretch marks and now the stretch marks have gone and their skins have be-come smoother and moist.

“The Bio-Oil 200ml is avail-able in the traditional and mo-dern outlets as well as trusted online shopping sites with the price at Rp280,000,” Ida said, closing the event. (EVA/TPP)

racers to prove themselves, Davin added.

Automotive sports activi-ties today show a rapid de-velopment where the main activities serve as a forum for young people to chan-nel their interests and ta-lents. In recent years, motor sports activities have also made significant progress in various regions of Indo-nesia and gained support from the local governments, the private sector, and the general public.

The Kratingdaeng Super-crosser The Ultimate Dirt-war is also expected to ge-nerate world class racers who become the pride of the Indonesian nation both in the national and interna-tional races. (RISMA/TPP)

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Learning Tuban Batik at Textile Museum

Indonesia is rich in culture and batik is one of our prides. So, how is about the idea and design on the traditional Gedog batik and woven cloths typical Kerek, Tuban?

On Saturday (2/10), the Tex-tile Museum presented speaker Fajar Ciptandi, an S3 (doctoral) graduate of the Bandung Insti-tute of Technology majoring on the Study of Arts and Design. During his study, he active-ly conducted researches on the tradition and Nusantara Wastra (Indonesian traditional cloths) starting in 2009.

Fajar was speaking at the event of “A Knowledge and Col-laboration Between Traditio-nal Ideas and Design Concepts on Gedog Traditional Batik and Woven Cloths Typical Kerek, Tuban.”

He explained why he chose batik for his research. “I like fabric because I studied tex-tile previously. At first, I had no interest at all but then I found something interesting in a piece of cloth when it turns into valu-able textile,” said Fajar.

He added how he began to research on Gedog Batik, Ke-rek typical cloth. “I read many reference books about batik and found many articles about Tuban batik. It seemed the ba-tik did not develop well.”

Fajar said that he was so curious about the Tuban ba-tik. “Out of curiosity, first I searched for the books about Kerek. I finally got a book au-thored by Herina, writing on Kerek more comprehensively. Then I wanted to prove wheth-er the book is true.”

Unfortunately, Fajar found out that what he read in the book and the facts in the field were not the same. He learned the people in Tuban are now much more modern and so the designs of the batik there, which look more contemporary than traditionally.

Textile Museum, located on Jl. Aipda Ks. Tubun Raya No.2-4, RT.4/RW.2, Kota Bambu Se-latan, Palmerah, West Jakarta, is a museum showcasing col-lectibles for the public. This mu-seum also serves as a place for conserving the local wisdoms of the society.

To enter this museum, a visi-tor has to pay Rp5000 for adult, Rp3000 for college students and Rp2000 for students/children.

For those who are curious about batik cloth of Tuban, they can come to the Textiles Muse-um which is holding an exhibi-tion on the batik until March 8. Let’s take family, friends, re-latives, and people you love to come to this museum! (TPP)

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Moreblessing Mapolisa: A Zimbabwean Thought on Indonesians Culture

Indonesia is a multicultur-al country which has diverse culture. Aside of its nature’s beauty, this diversity is also become one of main attrac-tions for foreigners to visit In-donesia. This is also felt by Moreblessings Mapolisa from Zimbabwe, Southern Africa when she first came to Indo-nesia. Mobie, that is the way she called, is one of Darma-siswa scholarship program participants who is currently studying bahasa Indonesia for a year in President University.

Mobie is an only female child and has two brothers. She and her family live in the suburban of Gweru, the third largest city in Zimbabwe. She admired her mom who is hard working and always find a way to be successful and also Bill Gates as he came from a poor background and managed to work hard and become one of the richest men in the world.

“I have not travelled much in my life and even in my tra-velling, I have only been to lo-cal or neighboring countries like South Africa, Botswana and Zambia but however these countries are almost the same when it comes to tradition and culture. However Indonesia was different in so many ways that I could have never imagi-ned,” said Mobie.

Indonesia has more than 260 million people from vari-ous cultures and different lan-guages, but they all respect one another despite their dif-ferent ethnicities and also re-

spect their various traditions.“Most countries nowadays

have no respect of their cul-tures and are more of adopting Western culture or the Ameri-can culture. Indonesians how-ever have a certain respect for their culture and integrate their culture with everything they do in their modern day,” said Mobie.

Mobie adored how the Indo-nesian people have ma-naged to make superior their lan-guage over any other foreign language. According to most studies, English is the second most spoken language in the whole world after mandarin, and this shows how most of the world’s po pulations have prioritized English over their own vernacular languages. But for her, that is not the case with Indonesia because the people prioritize their own local languages more than English and that is a sign of independability as it shows

the full sovereignty and self-reliance as a nation.

“Frankly, I felt jealous about all the beautiful and amazing things I saw in In-donesian people and wished if my own country could be able to have such cultural and tra-dition perseverance. I was re-ally impressed about how In-donesia upholds its traditions and its moral laws especially in such a day and age where people do not care about mo-rality,” stated Mobie.

She admitted that she was not prepared at all to see all the good things she saw in In-donesia. She imagined Indo-nesia as an underdeveloped country and boring people be-cause she had never heard anything about the country at

Diponegoro University Builds Electric Bus in Central Java

Show at Serrata Hotel, Sema-rang, on Thursday (Feb 1, 2018).

A day after meeting, the uni-versity brought participants to carrosserie industry in Cen-

tral Java. It was for providing comprehensive information of program, procedure, and sup-porting documents related to fi-nancial, grants, monitoring, and for evaluating researcher worked on eletric bus cluster, as well as for encouraging enthusiasm and understanding of the vision and goals of USAID-SHERA (United States Agency for International Development -Sustainable High-er Education Research Allianc-es).

Dr. Ing. Ismoyo Haryanto, PIC program USAID-SHERA at Di-ponegoro University and Head of Diponegoro Electric Vehicle and Transportation Research Cen-ter (DEVTREC), said that over 12 researchers of the univer-sity joined in USAID-SHERA’s

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Cooperated with Nation-al Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCSTT), Di-ponegoro University held a Meeting and Industry Road

Reading the Implementation of Big Data and Future Trend

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School of Computing Presi-dent University (PresUniv) col-laborated with Internship & Career Center (ICC) and Com-munication Bureau, and SetSail BizAccel held a guest lecture themed “Big Data: The Future Trend & Implementation”. The event took place in Charles Hi-mawan Auditorium, President University, Jl. Ki Hajar Dewan-tara, Kota Jabakeka, Cikarang.

According to JB Susetiyo, Di-rector of ICC & Communica-tion PresUniv, the guest lecture which invited speakers amongst practitioners is an attempt to

bridge the gap between theory and practice. “The guest lecture is open for all students in Pres-Univ,” said JB Susetiyo.

What is big data? Komang Budi Aryasa said, “This is data available in large quantities. Both structured and unstruc-tured, and flowing very quick-ly.” Structured data exists in da-tabases, documents and data in other traditional formats. Mean-while, unstructured data, con-tinued Komang, can be in the form of email or social media.

Why big data is important? “All the data that is spread every-

where, if it can be obtained and processed, it will become impor-tant business information for the company,” said Komang. The company could know exactly the profile of its customers. In fact, Komang stated, the company could know anyone who has not become a customer or changes in their tastes in the future.

In the field of human resourc-es (HR), for example, through big data applications we could know in detail the profile of pros pective employees. “Cur-rently the information available in the curriculum vitae (CV)

alone is not sufficient,” said Ko mang. In the CV, the in-formation available is usu-ally just a fine one. Through big data, ela-borate Kom-ang, we can find information about prospective employ-ees, whether on Facebook, Instagram or other social media. “Companies usual-ly prefer to recruit employ-ees who have good behavior, as reflected in social media,” said Komang.

In the next session, the speakers from DOKU ex-plained how the implemen-tation of big data in the com-pany. One of them is the use of big data to prevent fraud in the financial technology industry (fintech), read cus-tomer transaction patterns, and share experience of ap-plication of machine learn-ing model.

Arthur Purnama from DOKU also shared stories about the working situation at DOKU. “In DOKU, every employee must be willing to collaborate, be humble, will-ing to share and serve each other,” he said.

Next question, what hap-pens after big data era? Ko-mang asserted, the next era is Artificial Intelligence (AI) which is widely applied in Industrial era 4.0. This is an era in which many human roles are replaced by smart robots. “So study the science of AI,” said Komang to the PresUniv students. (JB/TPP)

program. As study on electri-fied vehicles related to multi-disciplinary topics, DEVTREC members comprises various de-partments/faculties, such as Department of Mechanical En-gineering, Department of Ci-vil Engineering, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Science and Mathe-matics, and Faculty of Econo-mics and Business.

“At Diponegoro University, DEVTREC is facilitated with two main laboratories at Techni-cal Operation Unit of Integrated Laboratory: Electrical Analysis and Engineering Measurement for Reliability Analysis Lab led by Dr. Eng. Gunawan Dwi Har-yadi, and Robotics and Automa-tion Lab led by Joga Dharma

UNAIR Student Wins Scientific Writing Competition in Turkey

Universitas Airlangga student has won first place in the olympi-ad event of scientific papers and international symposium held by Indonesian Student Association (PPI) in Turkey. The student is Moh. Wahyu Syafi’ul Mubarok, student of Physics Department, Faculty of Science and Techno-logy, class of 2016.

Wahyu won from 36 other tit-les submitted to the committee. He then had an opportunity to present his paper at Baglarbasi Cultural Center, Istanbul, Tur-key. There were two other stu-dents, Nindya Kharisma Cah-yaningtyas from University of Indonesia, and Tiara Puspita from Eskisehir Osmangazi Uni-versity, who presented their pa-pers.

The symposium, held January 20-28, was attended by students studying in Turkey. They come from various countries, such as Malaysia, Egypt, Africa, Turkey, and Indonesia.

“I am pleased and still cannot believe (winning first, ed),” said Wahyu when he was asked his winning.

In Istanbul, Wahyu present-ed a paper entitled Turkey’s Nu-clear Test on Indonesia’s Outer-most Island . The paper is about the cooperation between Indone-sia and Turkey on the use of nu-clear ener gy for the fulfillment of energy in the future. The use of nuclear energy is seen from the aspects of human resources, natural resources, the policies of

the government of Indonesia and Turkey, and mega project China one belt one road .

“The great goal of the coope-ration is the sovereignty of the is-land in Indonesia with the mari-time axis by 2020. As for Turkey, it can fulfill the Turkish ideals of 2023 in the field of energy,” said the author of Pelangi Diri.

In addition to winning first place, Wahyu learned many things in Turkey. Although only a week there, he felt the life of In-donesian students who study in Turkey. He was also invited to go around town. In Istanbul, he vi-sited the complex of Hagia So-phia, Taksim, Galata Tower, The Bosphorus, Basilica Cistern, Sü-leymaniye, and several universi-ties in Istanbul.

“We were also invited to Bolu, a small town between Istan-bul and Ankara, to see the thick snow on Golcuk hill. Then to An-kara, to the Embassy in Anka-ra, and the Anitkabir (Ataturk tomb), “said the student who is active in Reasoning Club .

In addition, Wahyu was also invited to broadcast on Radio SES 92.7, a Turkish state-owned radio. There, he shared his ideas and experiences about the pa-pers he wrote.

” This is my first time abroad. Beside the distinctive taste of Turkish cuisine, Turkey offers a great historical grandeur im-pression throughout the ages, and deserves to be explored once before death, “he said. (TPP)

all, but when she got here, she was really amazed at how good and well deve-loped the country was, and how delightful the people were too.

Being asked about dif-ferences in education, she noticed that lecturers here are close with the students.

“Students are free to talk to their lecturers, in my country we don’t have that. But things are dif-ferent here, which is good because students are sup-posed to be free when it comes to talking to a lec-turer. That is the good thing about President Uni-versity education system and i like it so much,” ad-mit Mobie. (TPP)

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Taiwan Higher Education Fair I 2018 Successfully Held in 3 Cities

Taiwan Education Center (TEC) in collaboration with edu-cational institutions in Indone-sia and leading universities in Taiwan successfully held Taiwan Higher Education Fair 2018 in three major cities in Indonesia, Bandung on Monday (2/5), Yog-yakarta on Wednesday (2/7) and Semarang on Friday (2/9).

Chairperson of Taiwan Edu-cation Center (TEC) Rini Lestari said, “There are at least 20 uni-versities in Taiwan who partici-pated in this exhibition, includ-ing National Taiwan University and Tunghai University.”

According to her, Taiwan Higher Education Fair 2018 was a real implementation of new po-licy of Taiwan government called New Southbound Policy, where its focus is to strengthen the cooperation with countries in South Asia and Southeast Asia in various fields including edu-cation in Indonesia.

Rini also said that in this era of globalization, Mandarin has become one of the internatio nal languages needed in many as-pects especially at this time is very important in Indonesia. So, TEC also holds TOCFL test to certify the level of Mandarin lan-guage for Indonesians who are wishing to apply for a study visa to Taiwan.

“Mandarin education in Tai-wan has a high competence and a lot of enthusiasts, because Tai-wan uses the traditional cha-racters, and this country is also known for its strength in tech-nology and engineering, espe-cially related to semiconductor. Taiwan Semiconductor Manu-facturing Company (TSMC), a TFT-LCD manufacturer is in Tai-wan,” she added.

Rini further said that the Tai-wan Higher Education Fair in In-

donesia aims to maintain the co-operation and partnership that has been established between Indonesia and Taiwan in educa-tion.

“TEC Indonesia Jakarta is supported and operates un-der the supervision of Taiwan’s Ministry of Education, FICHET, Study in Taiwan and Tunghai University. Education in Taiwan has been recognized by many countries and the quality of edu-cation is one of the best recog-nized in Asia,” she said.

“TEC is helping to get Taiwan University scholarships for In-donesian people as well as pro-viding accurate information of all universities in Taiwan, in-cluding the estimation of living cost in Taiwan and others,” said the businesswoman who has also been Chairperson of ICATI and World Federation of Taiwan Alumni Association.

In the series of exhibitions, Rini and TEC group also visit-ed and signed cooperation with several educational institutions, such as Maranatha University and Parahyangan Catholic Uni-versity in Bandung, Three Lan-guage School of Budi Utama and Budya Wacana Senior High School.

The three exhibitions were also attended by TEC Indonesia CEO Willy Yanto Wijaya, Coordi-nating Agency for Chinese Lan-guage Education West Java Eddy T, Chairman of West Java Man-darin Language Coordination Board Judhi Irawan Leo nard, Chairman of Taiwan Business Club Bandung Indonesia Andy Wang, Head of International Af-fairs Office Gadjah Mada Univer-sity I Made Andi Arsana, Chair-man of Taiwan Delegation Yan Hong Wei, and Taiwan ICATI alumni. (TPP)

Setiawan, PhD,” Ismoyo said.In his opening speech, Vice

Dean of Faculty of Engineering Jati Utomo Dwi Hatmoko, PhD said that Diponegoro Universi-ty encourages and supports the university’s researchers more actively participate in national and international collaborative research, including the USAID-SHERA’s program, for increas-ing the university’s number of scientific publication and im-proving quality of graduates.

In his speech, Director of NC-STT Dr. Sigit Puji Santosa ex-plained fields of the research in progress.

“NCSTT is Collaborative Re-search Center (CCR) formed by Bandung Institute of Technolo-gy. NCSTT worked with leading

international institution of education and research Mas-sachusetts Institute of Tech-nology (MIT) in United States of America and six universi-ties in Indonesia, in which Diponegoro University is a key partner in Indonesia,” Si-git said.

Sigit said NCSTT received grants of USD 3 millions in 4 years from USAID-SHERA. The money is allocated to support research on electri-fied vehicle and product inno-vation, infratructure develop-ment, transportation safety, and technology policy, plan-ning, business, and transit oriented development (TOD) to ensure the program is fea-sible in every aspect. (TPP)

Students are free to talk to their lecturers, in my country we don’t have that. But things are different here, which is good because students are supposed to be free when it comes to talking to a lecturer.”

Celebrating Lunar New Year

at D’Khayangan, Indonesian

Chinese Club Spreads Happiness

The event was attended by the members who are the observers, activists, and social care com-munity. The coordinator of INTI Club, Effendi Han-sen, and President Director of Jababeka Longlife City, Marlin Marpaung were among them.

Effendi said the purpose of this event was to invite members to live in synergy, hospitality, and happiness as the principle of INTI Club.

“We feel happy to be together and work togeth-er here, also the opportunity to come to visit Se-nior Living D’Khayangan,” he added.

“Hopefully we can promote D’Khayangan every where in accordance with the existence of INTI Club,” he said while giving a speech in the Room Hall, D’Khayangan, Cikarang, Bekasi, on Wednesday (2/21).

Effendi further said the community was found-ed on November 9, 2017 and has some activities such as visiting Bima Suci, Taman Budaya Tiong-hoa Indonesia, Indonesian Art Exhibition 2018 when they tried the helicopter services from Ja-babeka.

This community also do some of social activi-

ties. “We recently helped the victims of fire in the Krukut area of Jakarta, flooded area in Panco-ran, and raised aid to Asmat in cooperation with the TNI,” he said.

With the slogan of “Bhakti NKRI”, the commu-nity does not look at race, ethnic group or re-ligion, everyone can join. “The most important thing is that person has a high level of concern,” he added.

Indonesia Tionghoa (INTI) Club, under the auspices of the Association of

Indonesian Chinese along with Senior Living D’Khayangan Jababeka held a

Lunar New Year Celebration 2569. The festivity included games, lion dance,

angklung, brain gymnastics and other exciting activities.

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Effendi said he hoped INTI Club in the future will be present all over Indonesia and the exis-tence of Chinese Society can be acknowledged by the society. During this time many people still do not know the Indonesian Association of China.

One member named Heni expressed her joy to be able to attend the Lunar New Year celebra-tion held by INTI Club and she said she hoped the club will contribute more to the community.

“The show is good, hopefully this event brings happiness for all, especially for those in D’Khayangan,” she said.

Meanwhile Marlin expressed his gratitude for the presence of all the guests who have partici-pated enliven the Lunar New Year celebrations in D’Khayangan.

He also wished Happy New Year to every invit-ed guest. “Gong xi fa chai, gong xi fa chai for all of us. We are very grateful and rejoice with the presence of all attendees and invitees. Hopeful-ly in the year of the dog we are all successful and happy,” said Marlin. Photo by Presidentpost.com (Harwin/TPP)

Gong xi fa chai, gong xi fa chai for all of us. We are very grateful and rejoice with the presence of all attendees and invitees. Hopefully in the year of the dog we are all successful and happy.”

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SPORTS

Manned by 200 People, Dining Hall of Wisma Atlet Serves Various Meals

Celebrating 1,112th Anniversary of Magelang City, Mayor Holds Golf Tournament at Borobudur International Golf & Country Club

Food is one of important factors to be considered du-ring the test event of Asian Games 2018, since food is very influential to the performance of athletes.

At the Kemayoran athlete dormitory (Wisma Atlet), the athlete nutrient intakes are served in its dining hall. The location is in tower 2 of Wis-ma Atlet. This is where all ath-letes from different countries meet and eat food.

The dining hall serves three times meals per day: in the morning from 05.00 am to 10.00 pm, lunch hour from 11.00 am to 03.00 pm and dinner from 05.00 pm to 10.00 pm. Beyond that time, the ath-letes still can enjoy a drink or

To celebrate the 1,112th anniversary of Magelang City, the municipal govern-ment held a golf tourna-ment of “Magelang Mayor Cup Open Golf Tournament 2018” at the Borobudur In-ternational Golf & Country Club golf course, Magelang, on Saturday (2/10).

As many as 148 golf-ers participated in the tournament, coming from Magelang, Solo, Semarang, Jogja, Blora, Pekalongan, Cepu, Jakarta, Bandung, Lampung, Balikpapan, Bangka, Surabaya, Ponoro-go, and others.

The tournament provided a grand prize of Rp70 mil-lion as well as lucky draw prizes of iPhone 6, two units of 32-inch television, 3 units of 24-inch television, 2 mountain bikes, and 55 other electronic merchan-dises.

For the Hole-in-One priz-es, the committee prepared 1 unit of Toyota Fortuner,

snacks. The dining hall itself is open for 20 hours per day.

To satisfy the appetite of athletes who come from vari-ous countries, the menus are also varied. Wisma Atlet has entrusted the serving of food to the three best cooks, ac-companied by a nutrition con-sultant.

“The menus are varied. There are foods from ASEAN, western, India and the middle east. We also introduce Indo-nesian cuisines such as fried rice and rendang,” said Tjah-rial Yooky, Vice Director of Ca-tering Department of Wisma Atlet, on Friday (2/9).

The cooks are also asked to change the menu every day so that the athletes will not get

1 unit of Toyota Avanza, and 2 prizes of time deposit amount-ing to Rp100 million.

The tournament was official-ly opened by Magelang Mayor Ir. H. Sigit Widyodito, M.T. by striking the smoking ball.

Before the tournament be-gan, the participants and in-vited guests enjoyed the “To-peng Ayu” dance performed by female police officers from Magelang City Police.

Here is the list of winners of Magelang Mayor Cup Open Golf Tournament 2018:

For the skill category, near-est to the pin is achieved by Joko Kona with the distance of 170 cm. Nearest to the line achieved by Putu KAK with the distance of 3 cm, while the long est drive achieved by Agus Supriyanto with the distance of 260 m.

In the Flight C category, Runner-Up Best Nett was won by Kenedy with handicap 23 and nett 72, Best Nett by Eko BM with handicap 16 and nett 71, while Best Gross by Hendrik

bored.“We have studied the foods.

What is like the Arabic food or Indian food and so on. We have to be smart in manag-ing it, for example we adjust the fried rice to not too spicy,” Tjahrial added.

In preparing the food, about 180 people will work in the kitchen. There are also 80 special volunteers working in the dining hall, with a shift system every day.

“So, this place is open for 20 hours for the athletes to eat, drink, and snack. But the main course will be served three times, in the morning, at noon and at night with the menu changes every day,” he said. (DTK/TPP)

with handicap 17 and gross 89.In the Flight B category,

Runner-Up Best Nett went to Sudarmono with handicap 19 and nett 71, Best Nett to Wis-nu JKT with handicap 16 and nett 70, while Best Gross to An-dreas Dendi with handicap 14 and gross 71.

In the Flight A category, Runner-Up Best Nett was won by Rudi N with handicap 18 and nett 70, Best Nett by Bam-bang Yuwono with handicap 19 and nett 70, while Best Gross by Susilo Polda with handicap 7 and gross 78.

For the Over All, Best Nett went to Eman Cirebon with handicap 8 and nett 69, ehile Best Gross to Agus Supriyanto with handicap 3 and gross 72.

The 18-hole Borobudur In-ternational Golf & Country Club lies in the natural beauty of mountains, refreshing clean air, and the charm of Javanese culture. It is a 45-minute drive from Yogyakarta and easy to reach from Semarang and Solo. (TPP)

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George Gandranata

Wins Indonesian Golf Tour 2018 First

Series Held at Jababeka Golf

Lina Mohan representing the IGT 2018 organizer said, “We add the games to become 9 this year from 8 in 2017. We want to gene-rate golfers who can represent In-donesia in the Olympics.”

For the 2nd series of IGT, Lina said it is most likely to take place in the Mount Geulis area. Each series will be held in different places to familiarize the Indone-sian Golf Tour and attract more sponsors to support the Indone-sian golfers.

Meanwhile General Manager of Jababeka Golf & Country Club I Nyoman Mertasari said, “Thank you for choosing Jababeka Golf as the premise for the IGT. Des-pite the raining, the tournament was going well although became more challenging.”

“Thanks to God Almighty, thanks to my parents and fami-ly, to my sponsors, PGA Tour In-donesia and IGT, and pro col-leagues. Not many know that Jababeka Golf is a breakthrough for me. In 2014 I started playing well in Jababeka. To come back here the fourth time and got this champion title is an honor and thank you all, see you at the next IGT,” he said.

Indonesian Golf Tour was founded to provide career paths for professional and amateur golf-ers in Indonesia. Designed with the same structure as the Asian Development Tour, the IGT is a “stepping stone” to the Asian De-velopment Tour and other inter-national golf tournaments. (HAR-WIN/TPP)

The Indonesian Golf Tour (IGT) 2018 first series was held at the Jababeka

Golf and Country Club, Cikarang, on February 6-8, 2018 and George

Aditya Gandranata appeared as the champion.

Thanks to God Almighty, thanks to my parents and family, to my sponsors, PGA Tour Indonesia and IGT, and pro colleagues. Not many know that Jababeka Golf is a breakthrough for me.”

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presidentpost.com According to him, at Jababe-ka Golf with 18 holes designed by world class golfer Nick Valdo, the players should hit the second shot passing through the lake. If it hit the green, they have to face the challenges of a banker on the right and a pretty steep green leading to the lake. Locker, driv-ing range, swimming pool, sup-porting facilities for national and international event, as well as ho-tels are available at the Jababe-ka Golf.

George Gandranata expressed his joy for his victory, beating the other 73 golfers. He earned a to-tal score of 212 with PAR -4 and won a trophy and a cash of Rp34 million out of a total Rp200 mil-lion prizes prepared by the orga-nizer.