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INTERNATIONAL

Taiwan’s National Health Insurance: A Model for Universal Health CoveragePage A4

INFRASTRUCTURE

Land Acquisition for Serang-Panimbang Toll Road Completed in June 2018Page A5

TOURISMWearing Balinese Traditional Clothes, Miss Universe 2015 Alumni Welcomed by Karangasem WarmthPage A7

IMF Boss: We See Indonesia Much Better Now

President Joko Widodo

“We want the peo-ple of Indonesia to feel the fruit of development and proud to be citi-zens of the Repub-lic of Indonesia”

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Jokowi’s 30 Strategic Projects Worth Rp94.8 Trillion Completed

20 Projects completed in 2016 worth Rp33.3 trillion are:1. 14km toll road of Gempol –

Pandaan, East Java (Rp1.47 trillion)

2. Sentani Airport, Jayapura, Papua (Rp1.47 trillion)

3. Juwata Airport, Tarakan, North Kalimantan (Rp1.39 trillion)

4. Bandara Fatmawati Soe-karno, Bengkulu (Rp1.67 trillion)

5. Mutiara Airport, Palu (Rp1.39 trillion)

6. Matahora Airport, Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi (Rp662 billion)

7. Labuan Bajo Airport, Komo-do Island, NTT (Rp662 bil-

lion)8. Soekarno Hatta Airport Ex-

pansion (Including Terminal 3), Banten (Rp4.7 trillion)

9. Kalibaru Port, DKI Jakarta (Rp12.0 trillion)

10. Belawan-Sei Mengkei gas pipeline with capacity of 75 mmscfd, North Sumatra (Rp1.21 trillion)

11. PLBN & SP Entikong, Sang-gau, West Kalimantan (Rp152 billion)

12. PLBN & SP Mota’ain, Belu, NTT (Rp82 billion)

13. PLBN & SP Motamassin, Malacca, NTT (Rp128 billion)

14. PLBN & SP Skouw, Jayapu-ra, Papua (Rp166 billion)

15. Seunara Paya Dam, Sabang,

Aceh (Rp57 billion)16. Rajui Dam, Kab. Pidie, Aceh

(Rp138 billion)17. Jatigede Dam, Sumedang,

West Java (Rp4.82 trillion)18. Bajulmati Dam, Banyuwan-

gi, East Java (Rp454 billion)19. Nipah, Madura, East Java

(Rp213 billion)20. Titab Dam, Buleleng, Bali

(Rp496 billion)

10 projects completed in 2017 worth Rp61.5 trillion are1. 11Km toll road of Soreang –

Pasirkoja, West Java (Rp1.51 trillion)

2. 36.3Km toll road of Mojoker-to - Surabaya, East Java (Rp4.98 trillion)

3. 16.7Km Tanjung Priok Ac-cess Road, DKI Jakarta (Rp6.27 trillion)

4. Raden Inten II Airport, Lam-pung (Rp1.47 trillion)

5. Development of Jangkrik and Jangkrik North East Fields in Muara Bakau Work Block, East Kalimantan (Rp45.5 trillion)

6. State Border Post (PLBN) & Supporting Facilities cons-truction in Nanga Badau, Kapuas Hulu, West Kali-mantan (Rp154 billion)

7. State Border Post (PLBN) & Supporting Facilities cons-truction in Aruba, Sambas Regency, West Kalimantan (Rp131 billion)

IMF headquarters, Washing-ton DC, on Thursday (4/19).

The indicator, according to

The world economy is in a state of recovery with a po-sitive outlook, although it still has some risks that remain to be wary of. One of the risks is related to the potential tight-ening economy due to record breaking of the highest glo-bal debt.

So, what about the eco-nomic condition in Indonesia?

Managing Director of In-ternational Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde said that Indonesia has a bright prospect related to the poten-tial for its economy to grow in the future.

“We see Indonesia as a much better country now,” she said at the launch of Glo-bal Policy Agenda 2018, at the

Why Investors Choose Central Java to Invest

During the year 2017 the in-vestment value in the province of Central Java increased sig-nificantly due to various fac-tors. One of the factors is that a number of people of Central Java origin who had moved to other regions in Indonesia and succeeded there then decided to invest in their homeland.

Their investments have been contributing to the eco-nomic growth and the locally generated revenue (PAD), like being stated by Head of the In-vestment and One Stop Ser-vice Office (DPMPTSP) Central Java Prasetyo Aribowo, SH, M.Soc, SC.

“There is a significant in-crease in the investment from 2011 to 2017, which can be seen from the data and dia-grams at the DPMPTSP Cen-tral Java province,” said Pra-setyo.

Besides the contribution of origin people, the policy on the ease of doing businesses has also attracted many foreign in-vestors to choose Central Java to invest. The other support-ing factors are the abundant availability of labors with the minimum wage still relative-ly low, while the price of land is also cheaper compared with the other provinces in Indone-sia. The Central Java province is also known as conducive for investment and secure.

“Those are what make the investment value in Central Java keep increasing from year to year,” added Prasetyo.

The realization of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in-creased more than double from Rp14.11 trillion in 2016 to Rp31.67 trillion in 2017. The Domestic Investment (PMDN) unfortunately decreased from by Rp24.07 trillion 2016 to Rp19.87 trillion in 2017.

The dominated country of origin of the foreign invest-ment in Central Java in 2017 is Japan with an investment of US$1.123.90 million for fi-nancing 77 projects.

South Korea is in the se-cond rank with US$546.77 million investment for 208 projects, followed by India with US$244.18 million for 30 projects, Singapore with US$179.83 million for 127 projects, and British Virgin Is-lands with US$77.28 million for 66 projects. The next is Hon-gkong with US$68.25 million for 66 projects, Malaysia with US$36.27 million for 13 proj-ects, Germany with US$20.84 million for 16 projects, Unit-ed States with US$19.11 mil-lion for 33 projects, and Tai-wan with US$18.98 million for 30 pro jects. (IND/TPP)

8. State Border Post (PLBN) & Supporting Facilities cons truction in Wini, Cen-tral North East Timor, NTT (Rp130 billion)

9. Teritip Dam, East Kaliman-tan (Rp262 billion)

10. Umpu Irrigation System in Way Besai, Lampung (Rp1.078 trillion).

In early 2018, the govern-ment through KPPIP re-evaluat-ed the national strategic projects. The result was 14 projects were dropped from the list, while 1 project and 1 program were add-ed, bringing to the total projects to 222 plus 3 programs worth Rp4.100 trillion. (DTK/TPP)

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has completed 30 national strategic projects (PSN) worth Rp94.8 trillion for 2016-2017 period. The data was revealed by the Committee for Priority Infrastructure Provision Acceleration (KPPIP) on Tuesday (4/17).

her, is the relatively high eco-nomic growth in Indonesia compared to the average of

world economic growth which is in the recovery process.

“Indonesia still grows above 5%, quite high and above the average world eco-nomic growth,” she said.

Moreover, the current go-vernment is very consistent in carrying out the economic policy reforms marked by cut-ting the energy subsidies that had been considered to bur-den the state finances, La-garde said.

“I am impressed by the determination of President Jokowi to remove many of the fuel subsidies and shift the fund to infrastructure and public health,” she added.

“Indonesian people now can enjoy the healthcare ser-

vices with only using a plastic card, which is a smart cart (BPJS card). As you know, I visited with President Jokowi one of the hospitals when I came to Indonesia some time ago and learned more than a third of the population is be-nefitting from access to free healthcare,” Lagarde said.

Another point that makes IMF optimistic on the Indone-sia’s economy outlook is the government’s efforts in sim-plifying the investment li-censing by utilizing the digi-tal system.

“We also appreciate the digitalization of almost eve-ry aspect of licensing that makes it more transparent,” Lagarde said. (DTK/TPP)

Managing Director of International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde

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President Jokowi Discusses Economy with 11 Ambassadors

President Joko Widodo has discussed efforts to improve In-donesia’s economy with 11 am-bassadors of friend countries while submitting their creden-tials at the Merdeka Palace.

“Some ambassadors are from the countries of European Union (EU). The president re-empha-sized the importance of mutu-ally beneficial economic coo-peration and currently we are negotiating the Indonesia-EU CEPA,” said Foreign Affairs Mi-nister Retno LP Marsudi at the Presidential Palace, Jakarta, on Wednesday (4/4) after accompa-nying the president.

With the ambassadors of Rus-sia, Georgia, Latvia and Poland, the president discussed the trade relations on palm oil with EU.

To Russian Ambassador Ly-

udmila Georgievna Vorobieva, the president said he wanted to increase the bilateral trade from US$3 billion to US$5 billion.

The foreign affairs minister said that the relation on trade and investment with Russia was also proposed in the context of Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). “We call on Russia to support Indonesia in the efforts to develop economic relations with EAEU,” said Retno.

With Australian Ambassador Gary Francis Quinlan, the pre-sident discussed the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Eco-nomic Partnership Agreement (CEPA).

President Jokowi invited Aus-tralian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to attend the 2018 meeting of Our Ocean Confe-

rence in Bali in October. He also appreciated the role of Australia in hosting the ASEAN-Australia Summit.

While South Korean Ambas-sador Kim Chang-beom, the president discussed the efforts to increase the economic coope-ration, especially in industry.

“When the president of South Korea visited Indonesia, the Strategic Partnership is promot-ed to the Special Strategic Part-nership focusing on the accelle-ration of industrialization. The president asked the acceleration of industrialization to be conti-nued as a focus for Indonesia’s cooperation with South Korea,” the minister said.

The other ambassadors hand-ing over their credentials to President Jakowi are from the

Kingdom of Bahrain Mohamed Ghassan Mohamed Adnan Shai-kho, from Georgia Irakli Asash-vili, from Fiji Seleima Dikawa-kawayali Veisamasama, from Poland Beata Stoczynska, from Uganda Dorothy Samali Hyu-ha, from Gambia Ramzia Diab Ghanim, from Latvia Normans Penke, and from Ivory Coast Jeanne Guehe. (OKZ/TPP)

Industry Ministry Launches Making Indonesia 4.0

Jokowi Signs Regulation to Facilitate Foreign Workers

The Industry Ministry on Wednesday (4/4) launched the Making Indonesia 4.0 as a roadmap of Indonesia’s stra-tegy in entering the Industry 4.0 era at the Jakarta Conven-tion Center. The launch is part of Indonesia Industrial Sum-mit 2018 inaugurated by Pre-sident Joko Widodo.

Industry Minister Airlang-ga Hartarto said that Indus-try 4.0 needs to be implement-ed immediately to answer the challenges today. “The revi-talization of industrial sector needs to be done so that In-donesia will not be left behind from other countries that are increasingly competitive,” he added.

One strategy to enter the Industry 4.0 era is by boost-ing five manufacturing sectors to strengthen the fundamen-tal structure of Indonesia’s in-dustry. The five sectors are Food and Beverage, Automo-tive, Electronics, Chemical, and Textile.

“With the commitment and active participation of the go-vernment, the private sector and the public through the right partnerships, we are all confident that Industry 4.0 will bring benefits to the na-tion,” Airlangga said.

Meanwhile Head of the

President Joko Widodo has signed the Presidential Regu-lation No. 20 of 2018 on the Employment of Foreign Work-ers. This regulation facili-tates foreign workers (TKA) to get a job in Indonesia and is expected to lead to the in-creased investment and na-tional economy improvement.

The regulation rules the employer to have the fo reign worker employment plan (RPTKA) endorsed by a mi-nister or authorized official. The RPTKA is not mandatory if the foreign workers are: a. Shareholders who are mem-bers of the board of direc-tors or commissioners of the employer; b. Diplomatic and consular officials; c. Having skills needed by the govern-ment.

For emergency and urgent work, the employer may ap-ply for RPTKA approval no later than two working days after the employment.

Every foreign worker is obliged to have the limited stay visa (Vitas), prepared by the employer or the expatiate him/herself. When approved, the Vitas will be gi ven with limited stay permit (Itas) for

Vice President Jusuf Kalla Chairs International Trade Related Meeting

Vice President Jusuf Kal-la chaired a limited meeting with several cabinet minis-ters on Friday (20/4).

The meeting was attend-ed by Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Dar-min Nasution, Trade Minis-ter Enggartiasto Lukita, En-ergy and Mineral Resources Minister Ignatius Jonan, Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi, Agriculture Minister Amran Sulaiman, and Research, Technology and Higher Education Min-ister Mohamad Nasir.

“This meeting discuss-es our future economic pol-icy, what should be done in terms of our relationship with other countries,” said Jusuf Kalla when open-ing the meeting at the Vice

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HIGHLIGHTS

President’s Office, Jalan Medan Merdeka Utara.

According to Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Darmin Nasution, the two-hour meeting discussed internal set-tlements related to Indonesia’s international economic cooper-ation with several countries.

“The topics include Indo-nesia-Australia cooperation called Indonesia-Australia CEPA, the Regional Compre-hensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, the collaboration be-tween ASEAN with six coun-tries of India, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Free Trade Agreement or FTA with Euro-pean countries of Switzerland and Norway. So, there were many to discuss in the meet-ing,” said Darmin. (TRB/TPP)

Agency for Industrial Research and Development (BPPI) Ngakan Timur Antara said the perfor-mance of industrial sector con-tinues to show a significant con-tribution to the national economic development. Based on the Ma-nufacturing Value Added, Indone-sia’s position rose from the 11th in 2015 to the 9th in 2016, surpass-ing the UK and Canada.

Contributing 17.88% to the GDP, the Indonesian manufac-turing is ranked 4th in the world 15 countries whose manufactur-ing contributes to its GDP above 10 percent. “The figure even the highest in ASEAN and it conti-nues to grow,” said Ngakan.

The industrial sector has con-tributed Rp335 trillion to the state revenues. “The year 2017 is a pe-riod of rebound with the non-oil and gas processing industry grew 4.84%, after previously slowing down for three consecutive years,” he added.

On the investment value in the period of 2012-2017, the industri-al sector contributed 46.4%. The Purchasing Manager Index (PMI) report by Nikkei and Markit re-vealed that Indonesia’s manufac-turing PMI rose from 49.9 in Ja-nuary to 51.4 in February 2018. The February PMI was the high-est since June 2016 and the index above 50 indicates that the manu-facturing is expansive. (TPP)

maximum two years and can be extended in accordance with the provisions of the law and regula-tion. The Itas allows the expatri-ates to in and out of the country during its validity period.

The new regulation requires every expatriate who works more than six months in Indonesia must be insured at the insu-rance company incorporated In-donesian law.

The regulation was signed by Jokowi on March 26, 2018 and promulgated by Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly on March 29, 2018. The Presi-dential Regulation is valid after three months since the date of promulgation.

It replaces the Presidential Regulation No. 72 Year 2014 on Employment of Foreign Workers made during President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

In a limited meeting on March 6, President Jokowi said he still got complaints on how compli-cated the process to get permit for hiring expatriates.

“I am asking to process the permit faster and online in an integrated way between the Mi-nistry of Manpower and Immi-gration under the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights,” said Jokowi. (KPS/TPP)

The president re-emphasized the importance of mutually beneficial economic cooperation and currently we are negotiating the Indonesia-EU CEPA.”

President Jokowi Appreciates HIPMI for Encouraging Young Entrepreneurs to Grow

The government continues to encourage the young entrepre-neurs to grow and develop. In-donesia, according to President Joko Widodo, needs many entre-preneurs to advance the nation-al economy.

“Our country needs entrepre-neurs whose number should in-crease each year. In almost all developed countries, the num-ber of entrepreneurs is above 14 percent of the population. Cur-rently, Indonesia has only 3.01 percent,” said the president af-ter receiving the Executives of Central and Regional Chap-ters of Indonesia Young Entre-preneurs Association (HIPMI) at

the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, on Thursday (4/5).

President Jokowi appreciat-ed the efforts carried out by HIP-MI in encouraging the youth to become entrepreneurs by cam-paigning at the schools, colleg-es, and even Islamic boarding schools (pesantren).

“They have programs of HIP-MI Goes to School, HIPMI Goes to Campus, and HIPMI Goes to Pesantren. I think this effort will encourage the young people to try to build their own business-es,” he said.

In the meeting, HIPMI also conveyed the obstacles faced in the field, especially in the re-

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gions. Bahlil Lahadalia, Chair-man of HIPMI Central Execu-tive Board, said HIPMI wanted to participate more in the national development projects set by the government.

“They got complaints from the local young entrepreneurs in the regions for not being in-volved in the government’s big projects. This is what I want to discuss with the ministers of State-Owned Enterprises, Pub-lic Works, and Transportation in order to enlarge the circulation of money in the regions so that the development is really bene-ficial for all,” said the president.

Jokowi added that he would

find out why the local young en-trepreneurs in the regions were not involved in the development projects. He believed it was noth-ing to do with the capability of the entrepreneurs.

“From the meeting with the HIPMI delegate, I believe they have the capability. I will see into it later when meeting with the ministers,” he said.

Accompanying the president during the meeting were Co-ordinating Minister for Econo-mic Affairs Darmin Nasution, State Secretary Pratikno, Cabi-net Secretary Pramono Anung, and Industry Minister Airlangga Hartarto. (SETKAB/TPP)

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Industry Minister Airlangga Strives to Bring in Investment to Kendal Industrial Park in Central Java

Surprise from Sri Mulyani: Investment Rp30 Trillion, Tax Free 20 Years

The Ministry of Indus-try has been working on the development of manufac-turing industries in Central Java, especially the export oriented labor-intensive ones such as the textile and textile products (TPT), foot-wear, and furniture which have so far contributed sig-nificantly to the growth of national economy.

“Those sectors are per-forming well. The Ken dal Industrial Park has been contributing significant-ly, so we continue to active-ly attract more investments into the estate,” said Indus-try Minister Airlangga Har-tarto after a dialogue with the students of Semarang State University on Friday (4/6).

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Plastic Bottle of Mineral Water Strictly Banned at Minister Susi’s Office

Minister Hanif Urges Entrepreneurs and Labor Unions to Maximize Bipartite Forum

Plastic wastes be-come a serious prob-lem in the world today because they will ne-ver decompose so that they are damaging the environment.

The problem of plastic wastes has be-come a serious con-cern of Maritime Af-fairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjias-tuti who said that she is determined to work on reducing the plas-tic wastes.

She has started

Manpower Minis-ter M. Hanif Dhakiri has called on employ-ers and labor unions to maximize the bipar-tite forum in quickly resolving the disputes between them.

“If there is a prob-lem, please discuss it in an open way with trust to each other be-tween labor unions and employers,” said Hanif when opening the event about Collec-tive Labor Agreement (PKB) titled “Realizing Business Continuity and Welfare of Work-ers by Establishing Collective Labor Agree-ment” at the Holiday Inn Jababeka Cika-rang, Bekasi, on Tues-day (4/17).

The minister fur-ther said both parties should minimize the misunderstandings to succeed the establish-ment of the agreement. He added that with PBK, the rights and obligations of employ-ers and workers will be clearly stated and more than 96% of negotia-tions reached agree-ment.

Minister Hanafi also mentioned the impor-tance of labor union in the company’s organi-zational structure, giv-en the innovation in a company often comes

The government through Fi-nance Minister Sri Mulyani In-drawati keeps enhancing the fiscal incentives to attract more in-vestors in a bid to reach the target of 5.4% economic growth this year.

“To maintain the economic mo-mentum, we focus on rising the investment and export because these two were hit hard when the commodity prices dropped. We have to find a way to make these two engines of economic growth to rise again,” Sri Mulyani told the press in Jakarta on Wednesday (3/28).

She said her office has been simplifying the rules regarding fiscal incentives. “The bottom line is the more investments, the more incentives. The biggest incentive will be given to the investment of

Rp30 trillion and more with free corporate income tax (PPh) up to 20 years.”

According to her, the figures were set after learning from the neighboring countries. “We want to beat what the neighbors have to offer.”

Meanwhile Head of Fiscal Po-licy Department of the Finance Ministry, Suahasil Nazara, ex-plained more detail about the new tax holiday. Starting from an in-vestment of Rp500 billion, it will get an incentive of free corporate income tax up to 5 years. The highest is the investment of Rp30 trillion and more will get free cor-porate income tax up to 20 years, without any conditions.

“The tax holiday is primarily for the upstream industry,” Sua-

hasil said, adding that the go-vernment needs to push the in-vestment since its contribution to the Indonesia’s gross domestic product (GDP) reaches 32%.

Head of Special Unit for Up-stream Oil and Gas Business Activities (SKK Migas), Amien Sunar yadi, said he was surprised and pleased with the new incen-tive. This rule according to Amien will attract many new investors of oil and gas upstream industry into Indonesia.

“We are so pleased with this new tax holiday. It will boost the investment in upstream indus-try of oil and gas. The invest-ment last year reached US$9 bil-lion and this year it is expected to rise to US$13 billion,” Amien said. (CNBC/TPP)

from her nearest en-vironment, her office. Susi asked all the em-ployees of the Minis-try of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries to not bring bottled water to the office.

Those who defy by bringing bottled wa-ter to the office will get fined Rp500,000. “I’m considering reward the one who report the violation with 20% of the fine,” said Susi in Jakarta on Wednes-day (3/28). (DTK/TPP)

from the workers or union.

“Employers should make room for labor unions to grow and the unions must also be productive,” said Hanif.

He reminded the employers and work-ers not to use physi-cal force in dialogue. If both put forward the physical might, it will only result in chaos.

“Physical force will be responded with physical force and usu-ally it will bring us no-where,” Hanif said.

Data from Manpo-wer and Transmigra-tion Office of Beka-si Regency show the number of companies in the industrial es-tates in Bekasi Re-gency is 4,345. While the number of work-ers is 1.214.052 (Jaba-beka Industrial Estate, MM2100, Lippo Cika-rang, EJIP Industrial Park, and Delta Mas).

From that number, as many as 377 com-panies have run the corporate regulations, while those who al-ready have PKB are 150 companies.

The event was at-tended by hundreds of invitees from 1,650 fac-tories located in the Ja-babeka Industrial Es-tate. (MENAKER/TPP)

Singapore entrepre-neurs gathered at the Of-fice of the Investment Coor-dinating Board (BKPM) on Thursday (4/5) to discuss the business to govern-ment scheme, as a follow-up of Indonesian-Singapore Business Council (ISBC) meeting in Singapore on September 7, 2017.

The discussion was at-tended by Head of BKPM Thomas Trikasih Lembong, KADIN Chairman Rosan P

Roeslani, EDB Chairman Beh Swan Gin, SBF Chair-man Theo Siong Seng and Singapore Ambassador to Indonesia Anil Kumar Nayar.

According to Lembong, three sectors have been chosen to optimize the co-operation between the two countries, namely capital market, digital economy, and tourism and its sup-porting infrastructure.

“Indonesia can take ad-

Singapore Entrepreneurs Discuss Business to Government Scheme at BKPM

The data from the Indus-try and Trade Office of Cen-tral Java Province show the investment value in the manufacturing indus-try in 2015 reached Rp10.7 trillion. It is targeted to in-crease 10-fold to Rp104.3 trillion by 2035. The labor absorption is also espected to increase from 3.2 million people in 2015 to 6.2 million by 2035.

To achieve the targets, the government has been encouraging the Kendal In-dustrial Park to play its role more in attracting new in-vestors to operate in there. Until January 2018, the in-tegrated industrial estate, which was inaugurated in November 2016, has at-tracted 39 investors from

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vantage from Singapore, al-ready known as a financial hub in Asia, to get financ-ing in the development pro-jects for tourism and digital economy,” he said.

ISBC is a forum for In-donesian and Singaporean businesses to meet and cooperate, supported by BKPM and Singapore Eco-nomic Development Board (EDB) as counselors.

ISBC members are top 10 business entities from

Indonesia, Singapore, Ma-laysia, China and Japan.

The industrial park is targeted to attract invest-ment up to Rp200 trillion and to employ 500 thou-sand people. The compa-nies that have been ope-rating in Kendal Industrial Park are engaged in the in-dustries of furniture, food,

Indonesia and 10 from Si-ngapore. The Indonesian members are KADIN, Sin-tesa Group, PT Bank Man-diri, PT Jababeka, PT Lippo Karawaci, PT BCA, Rajawa-li Corp., PT Garuda Indone-sia, PT Air Asia Indonesia and Traveloka.

The Singaporean mem-bers include EDB, SBF, Singapore Manufacturing Federation, Singapore Info-comm, Technology Associ-ation, Singapore Precision Engineering and Technol-ogy Association, Hotel Pro-perties Limited, and Kappel Corporation Limited.

The ISBC is expected to bring in more investments from Singapore to Indone-sia. In 2017, the realiza-tion of investment from Si-ngapore in Indonesia was US$8.4 billion or 26.2% of the total investment, mak-ing Singapore as the num-

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ber one investor country in Indonesia.

The Singapore investors have invested heavily in the transportation, warehous-ing, telecommunications, agriculture and plantation as well as paper industry. The location of investment is still dominated by Java (51%), while the rest of 49% is outside Java.

In the second position is Japan with investment of US$5 billion, followed by China US$3.4 billion, Hong Kong US$2.1 billion and South Korea US$2 bil-lion. In the fourth quarter of 2017, the investment re-alization from Singapore reached US$2.3 billion or 27.8%, Japan US$1 bil-lion or 11.9%, Hong Kong US$800 million or 9%, South Korea US$700 mil-lion and China US$600 million. (DTK/TPP)

food packaging, steel, label printing, and dolls.

According to the minis-ter, Central Java is one of the provinces that become the location of choice for the investors who want to ex-pand their businesses. “For example, Boyolali. We can see that the unemployment rate there is close to zero, thanks to the expansion of large companies there,” Air-langga said.

Some big textile and tex-tile products companies in West Java have been known relocating or expanding their businesses to Cen-tral Java, especially Boyo-lali. This movement has re-sulted in the employment of 5,000 local workers. (GTR/TPP)

Indonesia can take advantage from Singapore, already known as a financial hub in Asia, to get financing in the development projects for tourism and digital economy.”

A bigger opportunity is also given to the local and national private construction companies to improve their capability.”

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Luhut: Indonesia’s Development for Improving Economy and Strengthening Unity

In his speech at Usindo gala dinner on Wednesday (4/18) in Washington, Coordinating Minister for Economy Luhut Pandjaitan explained the eco-nomic progress in Indonesia and the huge opportunity for investment from Sabang to Me-rauke.

“Currently we focus on the infrastructure development to boost the economy and strengthen the unity of Indo-nesian people spreading on 70 thousand islands,” he said.

He added the development is also conducted more in regions outside Java, especially east-ern Indonesia, to reach equal-ity. According to him, based on the ongoing development, in 2019 the economic growth could be expected to reach 6%

and even 7% in 2021. Besides the infrastructure

development, Luhut added, the policy to oblige the raw mate-rials to be processed first be-fore being exported has proven to be quite effective in driving the growth of economy.

Regarding manpower, Mi-nister Luhut said Indonesian manpower still need to be up-skilled further. “The govern-ment will soon focus on the edu cation, especially for train-ing and technology vocational education in the regions out-side Java.”

He added that now remote areas in Indonesia have shown some development progress-es. For example, in the border areas of Kalimantan and Ma-laysia, where public facilities

have been built. The sea toll concept to connect the spread-ing islands has also generated some positive results in econo-my and sea transportation.

The tourism has also be-come priority in the develop-ment by promoting new tourist destinations such as Labuan Bajo, Lake Toba, Mandalika and Banyuwangi as the New

President of the Republic of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita

Chairman of Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) of Mali, Youssouf Bathily said on Wednesday (4/5) that Mali go-vernment is keen to strengthen the cooperation with Indonesia.

In 2017, the trade value be-tween the two countries reached US$31,980,900 with a surplus for Mali due to the huge imports of cotton.

According to Bathily, Mali government has prepared 1 mil-lion hectares of land area for the cooperation in agriculture and irrigation with Indonesia. The cooperation in mining and pe-troleum is also open for the oil reserves of 634,500 m3, as well

as a program to build 440,000 houses valued at US$140 bil-lion. (KEMLU/TPP)

Indonesian Ambassador to Tunisia Prof. Dr. Ikrar Nusa Bhakti paid a visit to Tunisian Trade Minister Omar Behi on Tuesday (3/27). The trade minister said he welcomed the ef-forts to strengthen the trade cooperation between the two countries and hoped the trade between Indonesia and Tuni-sia to keep increasing in the future.

The Trade Minister of Tunisia also responded positively to the Indonesian ambassador’s invitation for Tunisian entre-preneurs to attend the Trade Expo Indonesia in October and the Indonesia-Africa Forum in April. He expressed Tunisia’s commitment to complete the discussion of RI-Tunisia Prefer-ential Trade Agreement which is expected to boost the trade volume of both countries. (KEMLU/TPP)

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs A.M. Fachir met with Andorra Foreign Affairs Minister Maria Ubach Font in Andor-ra La Vella on Monday (4/9). The meeting was held to boost the cooperation in trade and investment.

“The trade and investment cooperation between the two countries is very dynamic in the last three years,” said Fachir.

Minister Ubach welcomed positively and invited Indonesia to become the partner in its agenda of economic diversifica-tion.

Fachir also encouraged people-to-people relationships through the BSBI (arts and culture scholarship) program, in-teraction among entrepreneurs and the exchange of artists of both countries. (KEMLU/TPP)

Indonesia Can Take Advantage of China’s Investment Policy

Minister Retno Targets Strengthening Indonesia-Africa Economic Cooperation

Taiwan’s National Health Insurance:A Model for Universal Health Coverage

Indonesia has a modern health insurance (KIS) with 193.1 mil-lion members and 92.4 million of them enjoy free healthcare. This amazing achievement is in line with the World Health Organi-zation’s goal to achieve universal health coverage by 2030.

Taiwan offers cooperation to accelerate the process of build-ing universal health coverage in Indonesia.

Taiwan launched the Natio-nal Health Insurance (NHI) ini-tiative by integrating medical programs and has been expand-ed to provide equal coverage to all citizens from birth, regardless of age, financial status or employ-ment status. Furthermore, all foreigners who legally work or re-side in Taiwan are also afforded the same coverage. The NHI is a public program run by the go-vernment based on a single-pay-er model.

Taiwan’s health system has undergone several reforms over

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RI Invites Andorra to Increase Trade and Investment

As archipelagic country with 17,504 islands, Indonesia badly needs a good connectivity, from Sumatra in the west to Papua in the east. China’s initiative to re-establish a modern Silk Road by providing investments for infra-structure development, called One Belt One Road policy, can be utilized by Indonesia, says Patrick Mendis, Associate-in-Re-search of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.

“Good infrastructures have proven to alleviate the pover-ty and solve trade problems in many countries. How to make the infrastructures into a con-nectivity is important, like what you have in Jababeka in using the roads, railway and ports into a connectivity,” he further says.

According to Mendis, Indone-sia can use the investment mon-ey from China for building roads, airports, seaports, railways and other connectivity necessities. “However, be careful, don’t trap into a massive debt like Sri Lan-ka.”

After going through more than 25 years of civil wars, Sri Lanka was desperate to rebuild the country, but nobody would help except China who support-ed it diplomatically and finan-cially. China invested heavily in airport, harbor, sport stadium, conference hall and roads. “Un-fortunately, they are not used properly so the facilities are be-ing called the emptiest in the world,” says Mendis.

On the other side, Sri Lan-ka realized it had to use 90 per-

Foreign Affairs Minis-ter Retno L.P. Marsudi has utilized the Indonesia-Af-rica Forum (IAF) 2018 to strengthen the cooperation between Indonesia and Af-rican countries. The minis-ter held five bilateral meet-ings on Wednesday (4/11) with a vice minister of Soma-lia, a vice minister of Gha-na, Ugandan ambassador to Indonesia, head of Nigeria’s investment institution, and CEO of Ethiopian Airlines.

“The Indonesian govern-ment welcomes the develop-ment of economic relations between Indonesia and Af-rica, which is marked by an increase in the trade volume with some countries,” said Minister Retno.

With Somalia, the bilate-ral trade volume increased by 30% every year, even in 2017 the rise reached 80% com-pared to 2016. With Uganda, the increase reached 55% in 2017. Indonesia’s trade vo-lume with African countries still has the potential to in-crease further due to the high economic growth. “Es-pecially with Ghana, be-cause the country’s econom-ic growth is 7.9%,” Retno added.

At the bilateral meeting,

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Bali. “Hopefully they will in-crease the revenue from tour-ism in the future,” said Minis-ter Luhut.

Closing his speech, Luhut mentioned the political year 2019 in the legislative and presidential elections. Accord-ing to him, President Joko Widodo who will run again for the presidential candidacy, is currently supported by 70% of the political party from previ-ously only 30%.

The minister assured that the presidential election will go smoothly, not like the row-dy election of Jakarta gover-nor, because President Jokowi is known as devout Muslim, humble, and never use his power for personal purposes. (TPP)

cent of national income to pay back the loans to other coun-tries, mostly to China. When a new government came in, they renegotiated how to pay back the investment. The result is to give China 99 years lease for the har-bor. This sparked protests from the people and made other coun-

Somalia invited Indonesia to invest in the infrastruc-ture development of roads and ports, as well as in the agriculture. “Indonesia wel-comes and plans to send a team of experts to design the construction of a port in So-malia,” she said.

Ghana also invited Indo-nesian construction compa-nies to take part in the de-velopment and financing its program of 1 million homes.

According to Minister Ret-no, Indonesia is seriously encouraging Indonesia-Af-rica connectivity by open-ing the Jakarta-Addis Ababa direct flights served by the Ethiopian Airlines. The avia-tion company will work with Garuda Maintenance Fa-cility (GMF AeroAsia) in the aircraft maintenance and ground handling.

“Currently the GMF Aero-Asia has been working with airlines from African coun-tries of Nigeria (Max Air and Hax Air), Libya and Djibou-ti,” she added.

In the politics, Somalia and Uganda expressed their supports for Indonesia’s nomination as a non-perma-nent member of the UN Se-curity Council for the 2019-2020 period. (KEMLU/TPP)

the last 20 plus years to ensure its sustainability. Implement-ing the Global Budget Payment on top of Fee-For-Service reim-bursement method effectively re-duced annual medical expendi-ture growth from 12 percent to 5 percent since 2003. And the way premiums are collected has also changed from being purely payroll-based, to including sup-plementary premiums based on capital gains, which has creat-ed a surplus into the National Health Insurance Fund.

In addition, the NHI’s infor-mation system has migrated to the cloud, making it much easi-er for hospitals, clinics, and doc-tors to access medical informa-tion. Hospitals are encouraged to upload computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance im-aging (MRI) scans so they can be retrieved for follow-up con-sultations. A personalized cloud-based service called My Health Bank also enables patients to

tries like Pakistan, Nepal and Myanmar canceled their Chi-nese investment plans.

“Now the China’s present in Sri Lanka creates a huge issue for India and United States. It’s not only economically but has also become geopolitical issue,” Mendis says. (IRAWAN/TPP)

check their medical records at any time.

The government has adopted a wide range of measures to re-duce health inequalities affecting disadvantaged groups. Premi-um subsidies are provided for the low-income and near-poor house-holds, as well as the unemployed.

In a globalized world, it is im-possible for countries to overcome all their healthcare challenges on their own. It is only through in-terdisciplinary and international cooperation a global health sys-tem can be built consistently and cost-effectively meets the health-care needs of the world’s citizens and bring to fruition the WHO’s ultimate goal of health for all.

Taiwan has a great deal of ex-perience in a universal health in-surance system and the best way to share the experience with oth-er countries is through participa-tion in the World Health Assem-bly and the WHO. Unfortunately, political obstruction led to Tai-

wan being denied an invitation to the 70th WHA as an observer last year.

Taiwan seeks to participate in the 71st WHA this year in a pro-fessional and pragmatic way, as part of global efforts to realize the WHO’s vision of a seamless global disease prevention network. This also goes in line with UN Sustain-able Development Goal 3, which is to ensure healthy lives and pro-mote wellbeing for all at all ages by 2030. (TPP)

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The government will soon focus on the education, especially for training and technology vocational education in the regions outside Java.”

After Building Runway 3, Soetta Airport Will be able to Serve 114 Flights/Hour

In June, West Java International Airport (BIJB) Kertajati to be Inaugurated

way requires 216 hectares of land area. However, the to-taled land plots have been ac-quired so far reached 115 ha.

“The remaining 101 ha are still under process. Our cal-culation is that we will finish the land acquisition in Au-gust or September 2018,” he said.

Awaluddin added that the construction works will be done in parallel. The plan is that the construction of the third runway will be started by the end of April.

According to Awaluddin, the construction of runway will take 16 months. Thus, the runway will be completed around August next year.

“The construction of the runway will need 16 months. Our estimation is the paral-lel construction of the runway and taxiway will be complet-ed in July or August 2019,” he said. (DTK/TPP)

travelers who visit the city of Cirebon become disappoint-ed.

“However, my prediction is that within one to five years, the hotel occupancy in Cire-bon will increase,” he said.

Still, specific for the Cire-bon City area, it might be left behind because the inves-tors most likely will choose to build hotels near the airport. Moreover, the tourist destina-tions in the Cirebon City are not that many and tend to be boring.

Kiki said there should be a synergy between the local governments of 3 regions in Cirebon area to work on the opportunities as well as the challenges of the BIJB Kerta-jati presence.

“If the condition of Cirebon City keeps like this, the visi-tors will get bored. They only need one day to see all the tourism sites. The tourists usually come here just for cu-linary and batik,” he added.

In fact, Kiki said, once the BIJB operational, it is not im-possible that the Cirebon vi-sitors will want to proceed to Bandung area because, in addition to the neat urban planning with a soothing vil-lage scenery, Bandung has many tourist destinations.

“We should have a strate-gic plan to welcome the BIJB. Private sector cannot work alone. There should be a com-mon policy between the re-gions around BIJB. If it’s just like this, we will be left be-hind,” Kiki concluded. (PJS/TPP)

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Land Acquisition for Serang-Panimbang

Toll Road Completed

in June 2018 PT Wijaya Karya Serang

Panimbang (WSP) has target-ed the land acquisition for the construction of 83.7 kilometers Serang-Panimbang toll road will be completed in June 2018.

WSP President Director En-tus Asnawi said currently 35% of the land needed for the Se-rang-Cileles segment has been acquired. The process of ap-praisal and payment continues to be accelerated.

The land areas to be used for the construction of Serang-Panimbang toll road consist of public land 80% and the rest of 20% is owned by state-owned enterprises (SMEs).

“In June the acquisition of public land will be complet-ed, while the takeover of land owned by the forestry SMEs of

PTPN and Perhutani may take longer,” Entus said on Monday (4/2).

There are 5,507 plots of land covering 758 hectares in 14 districts and 51 villages to be acquired. So far, the problem in the land acquisition was most-ly overlapping ownership, but only 5% according to Entus.

“On the land areas that have been acquired, some physi-cal works have been commenc-ing, for example, clearing the

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The plan to develop the North Bali Airport will be re-alized, but it will be done af-ter the Ngurah Rai Airport has reached its maximum ca-pacity, according to Direc-tor Ge neral of Air Transporta-tion Agus Santoso. He said the traffic of passengers at Ngurah Rai Airport currently is about 21 million per day.

“This year the traffic of pas-sengers has reached 21 mil-lion passengers and will keep growing from year to year,” he said at the Coordinating Mi-nistry for Maritime Affairs, Ja-

The Morotai Island Regency is located on the border line and has various potentials that can be developed, one of which is tourist destination.”

North Bali Airport to be Built When Ngurah Rai Reaches Maximum Capacity

soil, making the iron frames for cross grain and installing the poles for the overpass,” he said.

The construction of Serang-Panimbang toll road is divided into three sections namely Sec-tion 1 (Serang-Rangkas Bitung) with the length of 26.5 km, Sec-tion 2 (Rangkas Bitung-Bojong) 33 km, and Section 3 (Bojong -Panimbang) 24.40 km.

The project is carried out with the scheme of Government-Business Entity Cooperation

in the airport in the south of Bali also has limited capacity. So, the plan to build the North Bali Airport is still rolling, but the realization will wait for the capacity of Ngurah Rai Airport to reach its peak,” Agus said.

He estimated the peak ca-pacity of Ngurah Rai Airport will happen within 5 to 10 years. “Yes, the prediction is based on the fact that in one year the average growth of pas-sengers is 11%, so in 5 to 10 years it will reach the maxi-mum capacity,” he concluded. (DTK/TPP)

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Ministry of Maritime Affairs Provides Rp200 Billion to Build Infrastructure in Morotai

The administration of Mo-rotai Island Regency, North Maluku, has stated that the central government allocates Rp200 billion fund in its na-tional state budget (APBN) to be disbursed through the Maritime Affairs and Fisher-ies Ministry for the construc-tion of infrastructures in Mo-rotai.

Head of the Regional De-velopment Planning and Re-search Agency of Morotai Is-land, Abjan Sofyan through a press release issued on Thurs-day (3/29), said the state bud-get fund aimed to accelerate

the development in Morotai.The infrastructure projects

to be developed this year in-clude the construction of em-bankment in Buho-buho Vil-lage, East Morotai District, the opening of a road in Sopi Village and Wayabullah Vil-lage with the length at 14 ki-lometers worth at Rp100 bil-lion, bridge replacements with fund allocation at Rp6 billion, the construction of new bridg-es for Rp44 billion, the in-stallation of clean water sup-ply worth at Rp12 billion, the construction of a dam in Te-lai village with fund allocation

at Rp26 billion, and a Rp600 million worth wastewater treatment plant.

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As for enhancing the settle-ment areas, the fund alloca-tion reaches Rp26 billion and will be divided into traditional market Rp16 billion and spe-cial houses Rp10 billion.

The government has de-signed the Morotai Island Re-gency as a Special Economic Zone.

The Morotai Island Regen-cy is located on the border line and has various poten-tials that can be developed, one of which is tourist desti-nation such as the white sand on the beach of Dodola Island. (JPP/TPP)

The construction of the third runway and east cross taxiway will improve the flight services at the Soe-karno-Hatta (Soetta) Airport. Once completed, the airport’s capacity will increase to 100 million passengers per year.

The traffic of the flights will also increase to 114 air-crafts per hour from current-ly 81 per hour.

“The bottom line is that the current capacity of Soe-karno Hatta which is 63 mil-lion will be increased so that we can accommodate more than 100 million. Or in craft movement, it will increase from 81 per hour to 114,” said Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi at the Soekar-no Hatta Airport, Tangerang, on Sunday (4/15).

President Director of PT Angkasa Pura II (AP II) Mu-hammad Awaluddin said the construction of the third run-

West Java International Airport (BIJB) Kertajati, Ma-jalengka, will be inaugurat-ed in June. BIJB is expected to boost all sectors, especial-ly the economy and business in the surrounding areas.

However, it will need a good anticipation from the local government and local people to be able to create a multiplier effect to the re-gional economy.

“The BIJB presence cer-tainly provides a fresh air for the investors in the re-gion, especially the hospita-lity entrepreneurs. But, if the local government does not have a strategic plan, the re-gion will remain left behind from the ones outside of Ci-rebon,” said Chairman of As-sociation of Hotels and Res-taurants Indonesia (PHRI) Cirebon Chapter, Reza Haki-ki, on Friday (4/6).

Kiki, his nickname, fur-ther said the hospitality in Cirebon City so far is not supported maximally by the Cirebon Municipal Govern-ment which has become a complicated problem.

Amidst the expanding in-frastructure development to support the investment cli-mate in Cirebon, the local government is considered too slow in welcoming the BIJB which will soon be operated.

According to him, the Ci-rebon Municipal Govern-ment has yet to solve the dis-turbing problems in the city, such as floods, congestion, garbage, and street vendors, which currently make the

karta, on Tuesday (4/3).Agus said that the maxi-

mum capacity of Ngurah Rai Airport is able to accommo-date up to 35 million passe-ngers. Therefore, there is a plan to build another airport in the north of Bali, while Ngu-rah Rai Airport is in the south. “With the single runway and additional apron, Ngurah Rai Airport can only accommodate 30 million or 35 million at the top,” he added.

“That is why we are con-sidering build the North Bali Airport. Besides, the hangar

(KPBU), where the government will only work on the section II and the rest is done by WSP.

The investment value of the project reaches Rp5.3 trillion, while the government’s part will be Rp3.3 trillion. The toll road is intended to support the devel-opment of Tourism Special Eco-nomic Zone Tanjung Lesung and to enhance the connectiv-ity while improving the econo-mic growth in Banten. (BSN/TPP)

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Canada to Disburse Rp1 Billion for Developing Villages in Banyuwangi

Kendal Regent: Regional Generated Income Up 102.3%

The fund is expected to stimu-late the economic development and local investments based on innovative approaches,” Suyan-to said.

He added that especially in the local economic development, Banyuwangi gets the highest score which should thank to its village-based agrotourism deve-lopment program. Three dis-tricts of Licin, Kalipuro and Gl-agah were assessed by a joint team of Canada and Indone-sia (Bappenas). The three dis-tricts are located on the slopes of Mount Ijen with the potential of natural beauty and plantation.

“The Banyuwangi Regency has designed a program that en-courages the three districts to take advantage of their poten-tials to become attractive tour-ism destinations,” said Suyanto.

He further said that Canada will also provide technical as-sistance, ranging from the im-

Banyuwangi was selected by Canada as the region to receive its Responsive Innovation Fund (RIF). The RIF is a partnership program between Indonesia and Canada through the Natio nal Support for Local Investment Climate/National Support for Enhancing Local and Regional Economic Development (NSLIC/NSELRED).

Banyuwangi will receive Rp1 billion for the development of vil-lages included in the National Priority Rural Areas (KPPN).

Head of the Regional Develop-ment Planning Agency (Bappeda) Banyuwangi Suyanto Waspo-tondo said Canada considered Banyuwangi able to improve the city-village relationship by build-ing new growth centers in its ter-ritory.

“This program is focused on the innovative breakthroughs in delivering the public services and growing the local economy.

In a plenary meeting with the Regional House of Representatives about the Regional Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMD) of 2016 – 2021, Kendal Regent dr. Mirna Annisa, MSi present-ed the accountability report (LKPJ) 2017 on the 9 development missions including the democrat-ic, transparent, accountable, effective, efficient, clean, and free of KKN governance.

The missions also cover creating intelligent, superior and noble human resources, and ma-king the investment climate to become conducive to create more jobs.

In the implementation of RPJMD 2016 – 2021 in the year 2017 with the tagline of Ken-dal Ber khidmat, the local government poli-cy focused on the infrastructure development and excellent public services. The local-ly generated regional revenue in 2017 reached Rp404,911,988,883 or 102.30% exceeding the target of Rp395,818,878,534.

The balancing fund was targeted at Rp1,313,578,186,000 and was realized at Rp1,258,083,866,283 or 95.78%.

The other legitimate incomes of 2017 were targeted at Rp348,437,540,549 with the real-ization of Rp384,492,565,839 or 110.35%. The local state budget (APBD) of 2017 was target-ed at Rp2,336,759,859,994 and was realized at Rp2,091,829,069,982 or 89.52%.

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provement of community insti-tutions and product quality to tourism promotion.

“For example, strengthening the institutional groups of tour-ism awareness (Pokdarwis), pre-paring the tour packages, deve-loping the coffee starting from how to cultivate until it’s served, developing the tourist attrac-tions, and empowering the poor to support production. We will also assist in the regional brand-ing, promotion and marketing activities whether conventional, online and networking develop-ment,” Suyanto added.

Banyuwangi Regent Abdullah Azwar Anas expressed his grat-itude for the attention of Indo-nesian central government and Canada to the region. “This col-laborative work reinforces our shared commitment to strength-en rural development directed in the President Joko Widodo’s po-licy,” Anas said. (DTK/TPP)

The target of health improvement through the availability of drugs according to the needs was set at 83% and was realized at 95% at the 9 community health centers (Puskesmas). The care for malnutrition cases reached 100% of the target, while the realization of fami-ly latrines which meet the standard reached 87.61% from the target of 85%.

The industry of marine and freshwater aquaculture resulted in 24,142,548 kilograms of fish, while the catches of fish on the ocean reached 3,326,763 kilograms or 155% of the target of 2,138,213 kilograms.

In the agriculture sector, the rice produc-tion reached 241,924 tons from the target of 256,832 tons. The corn production was 239,122 tons from the target of 209,869 tons.

The production of onion reached 318,903 quintals, chili 60,104 quintals, coffee 1,206.50 tons, cloves 252,87 tons and rubber 171,67 tons.

Meanwhile the livestock exceeded the tar-gets with the cattle 20,634 heads, goat 37,781 heads, and laying chicken 4,099,100 heads.

In the cooperation with third parties, Ken-dal Regency government has been working together with PT Pelabuhan Indonesia III in building the Kendal Port to support the devel-opment of Kendal Industrial Estate. (IND/TPP)

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Enchantment of Lake Toba in Hanoi, Vietnam

To Ease Access to Tanjung Lesung, New Bus Route from Airport to Pandeglang Operated

The Tourism Ministry in col-laboration with the Indonesian Embassy in Hanoi held a Sales Mission Toba Lake Destination on April 2, 2018 at the Apricot Hotel Hanoi. The event was par-taken by 7 Indonesian travel agents from Jakarta, West Java, Yogyakarta and Bali, as well as 38 tour operators in Hanoi, Vietnam.

The Sales Mission Toba Lake Destination 2018 this time managed to sell 670 tour pack-ages valued at Rp1.56 billion or US$113,820. The sales consist of paid transactions of 110 tour packages worth Rp429,18 mil-lion or US$31,100 and potential transactions of 560 tour pack-ages worth Rp1.138 billion or US$82.658. In 2017, the Sales

Mission recorded US$377,392 of transactions or an increase of 192% from US$134,136 in 2016.

Earlier on March 29 - April 1, the Tourism Ministry parti-cipated in the Vietnam Interna-tional Travel Mart (VITM) 2018 held at the Hanoi Internatio-nal Center for Exhibition (ICE). From the target set at Rp6.2 bil-lion or US$450,386, the Indo-nesian Pavilion managed to sell 2,669 tour packages worth at Rp13.4 billion or US$993,000 (up 164% from 2017).

Featuring Pinisi Ship design, the Wonderful Indonesia Pavil-ion also won Top 10 Impressive Booths Award at the VITM 2018.

Minister Counselor Sur yana Sastradiredja, as the represen-tative of Indonesian Embas-

Wearing Balinese Traditional Clothes, Miss Universe 2015 Alumni Welcomed

by Karangasem Warmth

Fourteen beautiful women of Miss Universe 2015 alum-ni visited Karangasem Bali on Saturday (4/14), welcomed by Karangasem Regent IGA Mas Sumatri and Secretary Gede Adnya Mulyadi in Taman Ujung.

The 14 women are Fran-cesca Keiko (Ecuador), Narissa Nena (Great Britain), Joanna Cooper (Ireland), Fatima Idu-bina (El Salvador), Toria Nich-ole (Bahamas), Tonie Maria (Cayman Island), Daniela Luvi-ana (Nicaragua), Vanessa Tevi (Malaysia), Pham Thi Houng (Vietnam), Lisa Marie White (Singapore), Cynthia Samu-el (Lebanon), Janeta Kerdikos-vill (Georgia), and Anna Vergel-skaia (Ukraine).

Wearing traditional Bali-nese clothing, complete with a bouquet of flowers, they were entertained with the traditio-nal music Gambelan Selond-ing and Gender Subagan while enjoying Karangasem typical food.

“We will stay for four days in Bali. In addition to Karang-asem, we will also visit Ubud, Gianyar, Uluwatu, and Ba-dung,” said Anindya Kusuma Putri, one of the finalists of Miss Universe 2015 as the host of the reunion.

After touring the royal he-ritage of Taman Ujung, they spend the night at the Cottage

of Candidasa Temple.“All are amazed by the beau-

ty of Karangasem. We deli-berately chose Karangasem because we also want to con-tribute in a way to the recovery of Karangasem after being af-fected by the eruption of Mount Agung,” said Anin.

The visit of the beauty pa-geant alumni, according to her, is expected to promote Bali tourism. “They will promote Karangasem to their friends how beautiful and unique Ka-rangasem is after seeing it by themselves,” she added.

Tourism Minister Arief Yah-ya welcomed the visit, saying that they will become good en-dorsers as they have many fans from all over the world.

“Hopefully they will tell the beauty of Karangasem and oth-er destinations in Bali on the social media, since their fol-lowers reach 3 million per per-son on average,” said Minister Arief Yahya. (KEMENPAR/TPP)

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In celebrating the 144th anniversary of Pandeglang Regen-cy, Damri Pioneer Bus Transportation started a new route to Tanjung Lesung from the Soekarno Hatta (Soetta) Air-port via Pandeglang starting on Sunday (4/1). This route was opened by the Trans-portation Office (Di-shub) of Pandeglang Regency to support Tanjung Lesung as a Special Economic Zone (KEK) for tour-ism.

The bus is also to facilitate the pub-lic in Pandeglang to travel out of the regency. Ac-cording to Dishub, the Dam-ri’s new route will not harm the existing public buses since the route has been carefully set to avoid being crossover with oth-er buses’.

A feeder bus will take the passengers at Tanjung Lesung and depart to Labuan Termi-nal, then to Cimanying Menes intersection, and will end at the Kadubanen Terminal in Pan-

deglang. From Pandeglang, the passengers going to Soetta Air-port should take the Damri air-port bus.

The Damri bus will facili-tate the tourists who want to vi-sit KEK Tanjung Lesung direct-ly from the Soetta Airport. So, the tourists will feel more com-fortable as they do not need to transit or change when using the public transportation.

It also will support the Na-

tional Strategic Project (PSN) of KEK Tanjung Lesung in attracting more tourists.

Damri currently ope rates 2 units of bus daily, but later it will add to 5 units.

General Manager of Tanjung Lesung Ho-tel & Resort Widi Wi-diasmanto said, “This is good news and gives new spirit to Tanjung Lesung. Clearly the central and local go-vernments support the development of Tan-jung Lesung.”

Widi added that the operation of Damri bus hopefully would make Tanjung Lesung in-

creasingly known and more at-tractive to the tourists. “We have provided all the facilities for middle-up and middle-low target market,” he said.

In connection with the Asian Games 2018 sporting event, Widi said, “This year Jakarta will host the Asian Games 2018, hopefully it will have a positive impact to Tanjung Lesung. We will prepare the tour packages to anticipate it.” (TPP)

sy, in delivering his speech said that the embassy ful-ly supported the activities of the Tourism Ministry in promoting Indonesian Tour-ism in Vietnam. Such an ef-fort is expected to increase the number of foreign tour-ists visiting Indonesia to reach 20 million by 2019. In 2017, about 60,000 Vietnam-ese tourists visited Indone-sia, while as many as 81,065 Indonesian tourists visited Vietnam.

To promote Indonesia and make Vietnamese people more knowledgeable about Indonesian tourism, the In-donesian Embassy in Hanoi and the Tourism Ministry have been actively involved in various a civities, includ-ing the Familiarization Trip/Famtrip. During 2017, the embassy had sent 9 jour-nalists from Dep Magazine, Wanderlust, Vietnam Tour-ism Review, Travellive, Viet-nam Net, Buddhist Me-dia, Tuoi Tre, Hanoi TV and Timeout Magazine, as well as one blogger to have a Famtrip to Jakarta, Yogya-karta, Solo, Bali, Aceh and Sumatra. (KEMLU/TPP)

Sriwijaya Air Issues Magic Card, Travelers Can Fly at Will

will be valid for one year.The SJ Travel Pass can be

purchased through the offi-cial website of Sriwijaya Air Group, Sriwijaya Air Mobile App and Sales Office of Sri-wijaya Air throughout Indo-nesia.

The number of SJ Travel Pass cards is limited so that the sales are open only for two months starting from April 9 to June 9, 2018.

The issuance of SJ Tra-vel Pass is supported by Sri-wijaya Air Group’s bank-ing partners, including Bank BCA, Bank BNI, Bank Man-diri and Bank Permata. The support is not only in the form of being the distribution channels, but also in provid-ing 0% installment facility for payment using the credit card with the tenors of 3 months, 6 months and 12 months.

“Indeed, this is the first ever such a card in the world of aviation services. It will be the only card that can be more meaningful to the custom-ers because they get the con-venience and freedom to tra-vel with Sriwijaya Air Group,” Agus said. (DTK/TPP)

Claimed as the first in the aviation world, Sriwijaya Air has launched a magic card to make the holders able to fly as many as they want for a year.

The magic card is named Sriwijaya Air Travel Pass (SJ Travel Pass), detikTravel re-ported on Tuesday (4/10). By holding the SJ Travel Pass card, the customers will be given the convenience to use it at any time for one-year term.

“So, they can fly at any time without any exception, even during the peak season of certain big holiday usu-ally referred to as black-out dates,” said Agus Soedjono, Senior Manager of Corporate Communication of Sriwijaya Air Group.

The card holders are also given the flexibility to use the card as they desire.

“The flexibility given is that they can use the SJ Tra-vel Pass to fly once a month, once a week, or even every day,” he added.

To get the SJ Travel Pass, the travelers must spend Rp12 million and the card

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Hopefully they will tell the beauty of Karangasem and other destinations in Bali on the social media, since their followers reach 3 million per person on average.”

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PT Sentramitra Dayautama

to Expand by Building

Another Factory in Jababeka

The growing business and increasing demand for energy has encouraged PT Sentramitra Dayautama (SMDU) to build an-other production plant with the target to be operational in the next 3 years. Jababeka is chosen by SMDU as the location of the plant because the company sees the big potential market in the Jababeka and Cikarang area.

SMDU has picked a 6,300-hectare of land in the Ja-babeka Industrial Estate 8 for building the factory. This expan-sion is to anticipate the compa-

ny’s business which keep grow-ing healthily. Currently SMDU already has a manufacturing plant in the Jababeka Industri-al Estate 3

“Before starting the construc-tion, we will study the similar factories in the world first to get the best design for our plant, from the production to the pack-aging processes,” said SMDU Di-rector Tjandra Widjaya, during a media gathering at Menara Ba-tavia, Jakarta (4/9).

“This year we plan to visit a factory in Italy, for lithium pack-

aging as we plan to use lithium for the forklift batteries,” he add-ed.

Regarding the plant of SMDU in Jababeka 3 today, it is cur-rently working on Deep Cycle products. As for the dry battery products, SMDU uses the trad-ing system because the Deep Cy-cle battery products cannot be packaged in Indonesia.

“In Jababeka 3 we have ser-vices, battery accessories and back to back rental,” Tjandra said.

According to him, SMDU is

trying to expand its market to eastern Indonesia by cooperat-ing with the local companies. Such a cooperation has been started in Makassar, South Su-lawesi.

“If we want our business to grow bigger, of course we have to partner with the local entre-preneurs. We also want to con-nect with the government proj-ects in power plant and port for ins talling a charging station system, as our business focuses on the battery technology,” Tjan-dra said. (IRAWAN/TPP)

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Jababeka and 18 Tenant Rewarded CSR Award from West Java Provincial Government

Malaysian Venture Capital company Vynn Capital has been intensively targeting the startups in Southeast Asia and Indonesia becomes one of the target countries that will be funded by the com-pany headquartered in Kua-la Lumpur.

The company was found-ed by Victor Chua, who previ-ously was the Vice President of Gobi Ventures, and Dar-ren Chua who was previously working for IE Singapore.

To the presidentpost.id, Victor said he wants to help digitalize the traditional businesses. “We are looking for a company with a great potential, not necessarily a unicorn like Go-Jek but it has to be a good one and that we think it will have a big im-pact to the economy; in creat-ing jobs and opportunities to other businesses.”

Victor added that what dif-ferentiates Vynn Capital from others is the company’s focus on the traditional business-es to brings them to the new

economy or digital era. “We are also looking for industries that are ready to adopt our technol-ogy, and at the same time they can improve their skills and in-sights with our investors who certainly have experiences in the field.”

SynergyThe word synergy becomes

one of Vynn Capital’s advantag-es as it seeks to create synergy among the startups as well as between the startups and the in-vestors.

“So, there will be an interest between the two parties, where the startups can learn from in-vestors and the investors can also learn from the startups on how to run a business in a new way,” Victor said.

Vynn Capital Aims to Help

Digitalize Traditional Businesses

Every year, the Bappeda West Java as the CSR Facilitation Team held the event to give ap-preciation to the CSR Partners of the province for their caring to the environment.

Interestingly, 18 award-win-ning companies are located in the Jababeka Industrial Es-tate, namely PT Menara Terus Makmur (MTM), PT Air Prod-ucts Indonesia, PT Bekasi Pow-er, PT Katsushiro Indonesia, PT L’Oreal Manufacturing Indone-sia, PT Mane Indonesia, PT Mat-tel Indonesia , PT MMC Metal Fabrication, PT Nippon Indo-sari Corpindo Tbk, PT Nippon Steel and Sumikin Material In-

Vynn Capital has been tar-geting 5 industries namely trav-el, property, FMCG, female eco-nomics (cosmetics, skincare and women life cycle related prod-ucts) and logistics or enabler (fintech).

“We want startups from dif-ferent industries to collaborate mutually and be supportive to each other. We also want inves-tors to do the same (specialists of various industries but willing to exchange experiences),” said Victor.

Currently Vynn Capital has three advisors, pioneer in the advertising industry in Malaysia Tan Sri Vincent Lee, Chairman of Jababeka Group in Indonesia S.D. Darmono and CEO of Pa-cific Travel Association (PATA) in Thailand Dr. Mario Hardy. (TPP)

West Java Provincial Government held the Joint Inauguration of 2017 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Projects and awarded the companies with certain achievements at the Hotel Intercontinental, Bandung, on Tuesday (4/17).

PT Jababeka Tbk and 18 of its tenants won the CSR Award.

va’s CSR Partners since 2011, of which 40 are State-Owned En-terprises (BUMN), 3 are Region-al-Owned Enterprises (BUMD), and 127 are private compa-nies with total CSR fund dis-bursed in the 2011-2017 period at Rp1.39 trillion.

“West Java Provincial Gov-ernment appreciates the compa-nies who have contributed and successfully run their CSR pro-grams in line with the local gov-ernment programs through the CSR Jabar Facility Team. The CSR activities become social in-vestments from the companies. I hope we can build West Java together,” said West Java Gov-

ernor Achmad Heryawan in his speech.

Meanwhile Senior Manager of PT Jababeka Infrastructure Aris Dwicahyanto said to president-post.id, “The number of partic-ipants in the CSR collaboration with Jababeka increased in 2017 from previously 16 to 18 compa-nies. The number of participants who joined the CSR communica-tion forums increased as well.”

Aris mentioned the impor-tance of the support of tenants in accordance with their respec-tive expertise to be able to run the CSR programs sustainably.

“Astra Zeneca, for example, has expertise in education; Dexa

Medica in health, Mattel in ed-ucation also, ICI Paints in cre-ativity, Mane in social, Showa in safety riding and so on,” he said, adding that this year the CSR activities will be focused on maximizing the waste process-ing, while last year the focus was on the mangrove planting.

“Every year we also have an Ecoweek program, a one-week event together with tenants to give back in an environmentally friendly corridor to the commu-nities both inside and outside the estate. Hopefully next year we can hold the Ecoweek event on the Earth Day in May,” Aris concluded. (EVA/TPP)

Cikarang Dry Port

Introduces Integrated

Port at CeMAT

Southeast Asia

Cikarang Dry Port (CDP) displayed its modern integrat-ed post concept at the CeMat Southeast Asia 2018 held on May 2-6, 2018 at the ICE BSD, South Tangerang. The exhibi-tion is organized by Debindo in cooperation with Deutsche Messe, the world’s largest logis-tics company from Germany.

CDP’s General Manager of Commercial Imam Wahyu-di said the CDP’s participation aimed to introduce its integrat-ed port development. “Our goal is to provide solutions to the us-ers, especially those located in the eastern corridor. Howev-er, we do not close the door for those in the west like Tangerang here. The number of users of our services from Tangerang

continues to increase. Through this event, more people will know and share what CDP is all about,” he said on Wednes-day (5/2).

The CDP booth in the exhi-bition provided door prizes of 3 Jakarta-Denpasar Sriwijaya Air round tickets and 2 vouchers to stay at Tanjung Lesung drawn during the event.

Sales Manager of Sriwijaya Air Jakarta Area Geraldo Pur-ba said Sriwijaya sponsored the event to promote further the brand of Sriwijaya Air. “So, be-sides branding, we also want to be known better. We want pub-lic to know that Sriwijaya also has interesting promos, not less than its competitors. Here, we also offer the Travel Pass, our

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Jababeka Residence Launches Monaco Townhouse

PT Grahabuana Cika-rang as the managing com-pany of Jababeka Residence launched its newest proper-ty product of Monaco Town-house on Sunday (4/7). The launching event was enliv-ened with a fun rally by clubs of certain car brands such as Mercedes, Honda Brio, Avan-za-Xenia, and so forth.

General Manager of Cor-porate Marketing PT Gra-habuana Cikarang Handoyo Lim said that Jababeka has built enough facilities to sup-port Jababeka as a self-suffi-cient township.

“The facilities will become the catalyst in raising the prices of property there in the upcoming 2 to 3 years,” he said.

During the launch, 123 units of Monaco Townhouse

were offered. Located in the Sport City area, the Mona-co Townhouse provides three kinds of unit: 58/60 with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, while 49/60 and 43/45 with 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.

Sport City is a 21-hect-are residential and commer-cial superblock area with green landscapes and well-equipped sports facilities. It is just 15 minutes away from the Cikarang Commut-er Line/KRL Station and 30 minutes driving to Jakarta through the elevated toll road which will be operational in 2019.

Jababeka Residence is a lucrative investment destina-tion with the yields up to 12% per year, making the Kawa-na Golf Residence serviced apartment with the price of Rp 33 million/m2 oversold.

The potential of Jababe-ka Residence is supported by transportation infrastruc-ture of 3 Cikarang tollgates, JR Connexion bus, KRL Commuter Line, elevated toll road of Jakarta-Cikampek, as well as LRT and MRT of Balaraja-Cikarang with sta-tion located at the center of CBD Jababeka. (TPP)

donesia, PT Showa Indonesia MFG, PT TRAD Indonesia, PT ICI Paints Indonesia, PT Ferron Par Pharmaceuticals (Member of Dexa Groups), PT Superno-va Flexible Packaging, PT Kom-atsu Undercarriage Indonesia, PT United Tractors Pandu Engi-neering and PT Astra Zeneca In-donesia.

In addition to the 18 compa-nies, PT Jababeka Tbk as the es-tate manager also won the CSR Award. Jababeka participated in the event by presenting a CSR booth featuring 55 participant companies in West Java.

As many as 170 companies have participated as West Ja-

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new program. The passengers only pay Rp12 million and they can fly as many as they want in one year, no limit,” he said.

“We chose to cooperate with CDP, because it has many cli-ents. Also, maybe we will get into the cargo businesses in our flights later,” he added.

Managing Director of PT Banten West Java (BWJ), as the managing company of KEK Tanjung Lesung, Rully Lasahi-do said, “We as 1 of 10 new Bali want to invite people to visit the CDP booth at the CeMAT South-east Asia to feel a vacation on the beach with a view of Mount Krakatau and get to know the Banten original cultures of Rampak Bedug dance, batik and its culinary.” (REZA/TPP)

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Bekasi Power Claims Contract

with PLN Still Running

PT Bekasi Power, a subsi-diary of PT Kawasan Indus-tri Jababeka Tbk (KIJA), has said it respects the PLN’s de-cision to temporarily suspend the electricity purchase from the company’s gas-fired po wer plant (PLTGU). According to PLN, the suspension was im-posed due to the electric po-wer surplus experienced by the Java-Bali network.

President Director of PT Bekasi Power Teguh Setiawan said the power purchase con-tract currently is still run-ning. Later, the company’s PLTGU will supply PLN again whenever it needs more elec-tricity, given the contract with PLN is valid until 15 remain-ing years.

“We will follow the instruc-tions from PLN, while the con-tract is still running for both sides. So, we will complete the

Unilever Initiates Indonesia Hygiene Forum to Raise Awareness of Healthy Living

Aiming to increase the pub-lic awareness of hygiene and health, Unilever has established a collaborative forum called In-donesia Hygiene Forum.

President Director of PT Uni-lever Indonesia Tbk, Hemant Bakshi said, “The low public awareness of the importance of health and hygiene is of con-cern to us. To that end, we ini-tiated the formation of Indo-nesia Hygiene Forum (IHF) as a platform for communication and collaboration in health and hygiene by the academics, go-vernment, experts, communi-ties, business people and oth-ers to jointly improve the public awareness through educational and scientific approaches.”

The Indonesia Hygiene Fo-

rum is one of the realization of Unilever Sustainable Living Program (USLP), a business strategy to grow the business while halving environmen-tal impact and increasing so-cial impact. One of the goals of USLP is improving the health and wellbeing of 1 billion peo-ple by 2020.

Data from the Directorate General of P2P show in 2016 there were still 6.8 million ca-ses of diarrhea in Indonesia. Dr. Wani Devita Gunardi, SpMK, chairperson of the Association of Indonesian Clinical Micro-biology Experts (PAMKI) DKI Jakarta said, “This figure can be lowered significantly if the people know the causes and how to prevent it. Harmful bac-

Taiwan Investment Increases 166 Percent, KADIN and TAITRA Sign MoU for Cooperation

To enhance the bilateral trade cooperation between Indonesia and Taiwan, Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TA-ITRA) and Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KA-DIN) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Friday (3/3O3) in the President Lounge, Menara Batavia, Jakarta.

The MoU was signed by TAI-TRA CEO Walter M.S. Yeh and Chairman of KADIN Indonesia Taiwan Committee S.D. Darmo-no, witnessed by TAITRA Chair-man James C.F. Ms. Huang, Vice President of Taiwan Min-istry of Economic Affairs Wang Meihua, Vice Chairman of KA-DIN Indonesia Taiwan Commit-tee Rini Lestari, Vice Chairman of KADIN Indonesia Internatio-nal Relations Division Shinta Widjaja Kamdani and Head of Indonesian Economy and Trade Office (KDEI) Robert James Bin-taryo.

In his speech, Darmono re-vealed his dream to be able to cooperate with Taiwan through Morotai Island as the gate of eastern Indonesia.

According to him, the location of Morotai Island is very strate-gic as the gateway to Indonesia in the east. “If it is not strategic, General McArthur would not use it as his military base during the World War II,” he said.

Darmono also added, “But we will keep pursuing this coope-ration from Jakarta, by trying to make other businesspeople to understand this dream.”

In the meantime, James C.F. Huang said that 2017 was a good year for Taiwan. “The bi-lateral trade between Indonesia and Taiwan in 2017 increased by US$8 million or about 15 per-cent from the previous year. And Taiwan’s investment to Indonesia increased 166 percent that year,” he added.

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contract. Currently our PLT-GU is idle, but we can turn it on whenever PLN asks for,” he said on Tuesday (4/3).

There was a rumor that KIJA planned to sell Bekasi Power, but Teguh dismissed it. According to him, currently each party respects the exis-ting contract and PT Bekasi Power is ready to supply the

electricity again to PLN when-ever the state-owned company asks for it.

“We are still following the contract. PLN never said it will terminate the contract, no, we never said that either. PLN is experiencing oversupply right now. So, we just wait for the instruction from PLN when we will supply the electricity

teria are all around us, even in the houses which look clean. Therefore, it takes greater at-tention to educate the public re-lated to this hygiene issues.”

Drg. Kartini Rustandi, M.Kes, Director of Occupatio-nal Health and Sports, Direc-torate General of Public Health of the Ministry of Health offered similar view, “Education is the basic step to raise the pub-lic awareness. The symptoms and the disease should be ex-plained scientifically so that people can understand to the root of the problem. I hope the Indonesia Hygiene Forum will help the government program in socializing the dangers of an unhealthy lifestyle.” (ADRIAN/TPP)

Agus Martowardojo

detik.comRating agency Moody’s In-

vestor Service (Moody’s) raised the Sovereign Credit Rating (SCR) of Indonesia from Baa3/Positive Outlook to Baa2/Sta-ble Outlook on April 13, 2018.

“The key factor supporting the decision is a credible and effective policy framework con-ducive to the macro economic stability,” Moody’s said on Fri-day (4/13).

The increased foreign ex-change reserves and prudent fiscal and monetary policies also strengthen Indonesia’s re-silience and capacity in facing

the external turmoil.BI Governor Agus Martowardojo in his statement said the

rating is the highest ever from Moody’s. “Now Indonesia has been recognized by four international rating agencies one level higher than Investment Grade.” (DTK/TPP)

Kredivo announced on Tuesday (4/10) its partnership with Tokopedia, the largest local e-commerce merchant and one of Indonesia’s unicorns.

The cooperation will allow the Tokopedia customers to pay their shopping with instant credit from Kredivo, supported by flexibility in the installment and easy 2-click checkout.

“Tokopedia and Kredivo share a common vision to provide adequate financial inclusion and simplify the shopping expe-riences,” said Akshay Garg, Co-Founder and CEO of Kredivo.

“The inclusive payment is an added value in the shopping experiences at Tokopedia in a safe, comfortable and trans-parent way,” said Melissa Siska Juminto, COO of Tokopedia. (ADRIAN/TPP)

PT Jawa Satu Power, a consortium of PT Pertamina, Ma-rubeni Corporation, and Sojitz Corporation, has signed an EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) contract with a consortium of General Electric (GE), Samsung C & T and PT Meindo Elang Indah, for its combined-cycle gas po-wer plant (PLTG) of Jawa 1.

Jawa 1 will become the biggest PLTG in Indonesia using GE’s latest gas turbine technology with the capacity of 1,760 MW. The plant is expected to start operating in mid-2021. GE also signed a maintenance service agreement for 25 years in monitoring, predicting, and improving the reliability and ef-ficiency of the PLTG. (SWA/TPP)

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again, surely when it experi-ences a shortage,” he added.

The power plant managed by PT Bekasi Power so far is the largest contributor of KI-JA’s revenue. Last year, it ac-counted for 45.39% of the revenue or higher than the revenue from the land deve-lopment and property of Rp1.1 trillion. (KTN/TPP)

“All of this shows that Indone-sia and Taiwan have promising prospect in the cooperation. TAI-TRA will support all forms of co-operation proposed by KADIN,” James said.

Shinta added, “We need fo-reign direct investment in Indo-nesia by cooperating with other countries, including Taiwan.”

According to her, the Indone-sian government has seriously been working on the investment climate to make it more condu-cive. This is evidenced by the re-

visions of regulations and the is-suance of policy packages that support the foreign direct invest-ment and cooperation.

Currently Taiwan is imple-menting a strategic policy on economy and trade called the New Southbound Policy to in-crease its roles in the develop-ment of countries in ASEAN and South Asia. Through the New Southbound Policy, it is expected that the trade relations between Indonesia and Taiwan will move forward to a better level. (TPP)

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Jonan Issues New Regulation on Nonsubsidized Fuel Prices

International Powermax, 28-30 November 2018 at JIEXPO Kemayoran, Jakarta

Powermax 2018 is the in-ternational platform that fuels Indonesia’s electrifi-cation. Discover projects, funding availabilities to gain competitive advantage. Showcase your products & services to clinch power, energy & grid related pro-jects. Presents the prospect of power-energy outlook and the latest project, providing market and industrial play-er, showcase the update new development technology and information to spur the in-dustry sector globally.

This event will connect to over 800 international visi-tors and buyers across busi-nesses and it also expected to be opened by the Presi-dent of the Republic Indone-sia Ir. H. Joko Widodo.

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ergy Council, SKK Migas and Prakarsa Jaringan Cerdas In-donesia (PJCI) that will refer quality buyers and explore co-operation with your company.

National Energy Council that led by President of Republic In-donesia will hold a conference with theme “Indonesia Energy Security” on 28 November 2018. Following day Conference on 29 November by SKK Migas and Seminar Panelist on 30 Novem-ber by Prakarsa Jaringan Cer-das Indonesia.

POWERMAX 2018 target-ed to international power and ener gy companies Owners, Mi-nisters, policy making govern-ment agencies, EPC, Directors, Managers, Engineers, Consul-tant, Contractors and Suppliers who operate across the up, mid and downstream sectors of the Power Plant, Renewable Ener-gy, Manufacturing – Automa-

Energy and Mineral Re-sources (ESDM) Minister Ig-nasius Jonan on April 9, 2018 signed the Minister of ESDM Regulation No. 21 of 2018 on the Calculation of Retail Pric-es of Fuels. This regulation is a revision of the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resourc-es Regulation No. 39 of 2014.

Based on the Article 4 para-graph 1 of the new regulation, the profit margin from the re-tail prices of General Fuel Types or non-subsidized fuels is set at 10% maximum.

In the ESDM Minister Re-gulation no. 39/2014, the pro-fit margin was pegged at 5% for lower limit and 10% for up-per limit. Now in the new re-gulation the lower limit of 5% is removed so that the pro-fit taken by a non-subsidized

fuel distributor business can be below 5%.

The Article 4, paragraph 3, stipulates that the business entities who want to change the prices of non-subsidized fuels shall get approval from the minister.

In the article 4, paragraph 4, it is mentioned that the minister may approve or reject the proposal to change the prices of non-subsidized fuels by taking into consideration the economic situation, public purchasing power, as well as the real economic and social conditions of the people.

“In the case of discrepan-cy in the application of retail prices of General Fuel Types, the business entities are sub-jects to sanctions in accor-dance with the applicable laws

tion, Oil & Gas and Mining with a B2B platform.

POWERMAX event held to encourage the Indonesia Go-vernment program to actualize electricity supply to reach ca-pacity 35000 MW and supply the energy national through-out blue print National Energy supply Agency (Badan Pengelo-la Energi Nasional 2015-2025). Keeping eye on develop market to accelerate national economic growth by inviting the investor through POWERMAX event.

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and regulations,” reads the ESDM Regulation no. 21/2018 article 4 verse 7 as reported by kumparan.com on Thurs-day (4/9).

The ESDM Minister Regula-tion No. 21/2018 was enacted on April 10, 2018. (KPR/TPP)

In the case of discrepancy in the application of retail prices of General Fuel Types, the business entities are subjects to sanctions in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations.”

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Senior Living D’Khayangan and Kawai Music Hold Piano Competition for Kids

Senior Living D’Khayangan in cooperation with Kawai Musik held Kids Piano Com-petition at the Activity Room of D’Khayangan, Jababeka, on Sunday (4/8) to find piano kid players in Bekasi and Kara-wang area.

The Kids Piano Competition is the first ever of its kind held in Cikarang. It was open for the children under 15 years old. The competition consisted of 3 ca-tegories of age with the partic-ipants of 25 children from vari-ous institutions providing music lessons in the Bekasi and Kara-wang area.

The event was attended by two world renowned musicians of:

1. Yoshiko Kimura2. Alfred Young SugiriYoshiko Kimura is an instruc-

tor for the international piano competition at Japan Kawai Mu-sic School and has the experi-ences in Hongkong and Thailand Kawai Music School as the music school manager.

Meanwhile, Alfred Young Su-giri is known as a classical and jazz young musician in Indo-nesia. He has performed at the important music festivals such as Bach International Festival,

Brahms Festival in Germany, In-donesia Piano Festival, Parahy-angan Classical Music Festival and Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival (with Ananda Matez and Karim Suweileh) in Indone-sia.

“The new event is very good. This kind of event should be held regularly every year. Many kids here already have a good piano skill; with a little improvement, they will be able to play mu-sic that is touching the heart,” Kimura said.

Alfred added, “This event is very good, spurring the creati-vi-ty of the children. The sound pro-duction played by those children was 90% very good. I hope more children will participate in this kind of competition.”

Meanwhile, Head of Event and Promotion of Senior Living D’Khayangan Agustinus said, “Kids Piano Competition is held to seek the talented children in playing piano in Bekasi and Ka-rawang.”

Here are the winners of Kids Piano Competition:Category AFirst Place: Ignasi Kania Wikan - Purwacaraka Lippo

Runner Up 1: Zella Priscilla Da-manik - Kawai KarawangRunner Up 2: Christopher Ra-ditya Purwanto - Kawai Cika-rang

Category BFirst Place: Angela Michelle San-toso - ConcertoRunner Up 1: Yehezkiel Chris-tian Mckenzie Sihombing - Uni-sonRunner Up 2: Elisabeth Guna Wijaya - Concerto Lippo Cika-rang

Category CFirst Place: Yutakana Mikhail A. Pranastia - Purwacaraka Sum-marecon BekasiRunner Up 1: Elizabeth Ramli - Unison Lippo CikarangRunner Up 2: Raisah Mazaya M - Purwacaraka Lippo Cikarang. Photo by President Post (TPP)

ICC Allstars and President University Hold Biggest Cheerleading Competition

ICC Allstars and President University held a cheerlead-ing competition of ICC Allstars Cup 2018 at the Jababeka Convention Center, Cikarang, on April 14-15, 2018. As many as 44 teams with 700 per-sonnel from Jabodetabek and Ban dung participated in the competition.

The event was attended by Head of Sports Division of Bekasi Regency H. Hasan Asa-ri, Committee Chairman of ICC Allstars Cup 2018 Ray-mond Haryanto, President University’s Deputy Director of Marketing Michael Rino and Chairman of Bekasi Industrial Tourism (BIT) BA Hadisantoso.

In an interview with pre-sidentpost.id, Raymond said,

“ICC Allstars Cup 2018 is the biggest cheerleading competi-tion ever held by a club in In-donesia with an international standard. So, participating in the ICC Allstars Cup 2018 will know how the world competi-tions look like.”

In the meantime, Hasan Asari said, “Cheerleading is a sport that is attractive to the junior high and high school students in Bekasi. Hopefully the cheerleading will become a sport branch in the local sports competitions of POPDA and PORDA.”

He added that he will gather the cheerleaders in the schools and send them to participate in the various competitions. Photo by President Post (SAFAK/TPP)

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BIT Holds Fun Rally of Car Clubs to Liven Up Launching of Monaco Townhouse Jababeka

Jababeka Residence has launched its newest property product, Monaco Townhouse. PT Gra-habuana Cikarang, the managing company of Jababeka Residence, held the launching event followed by picking the unit at the Hollywood Junction, Cikarang, Bekasi, on Sunday (4/7).

Monaco Townhouse is part of the newest area in Jababeka Residence called Sport City, a 21-hec-tare residential and commercial superblock with a green landscape and well-equipped sports fa-ci-lities. The Sport City is just 15 minutes from the Commuter Line KRL Cikarang Station and 30 minutes to Jakarta through the elevated toll road which will be operational in 2019.

The event was also enlivened by the atten-dance of members of several brand car clubs in Cikarang, such as Mercedes and BMW, who then staged a Fun Rally. The special Fun Rally was or-ganized by the Bekasi Industrial Tourism (BIT).

To presidentpost.id, Head of Bekasi Industrial Tourism B.A. Hadisantoso said, “Hopefully such a synergy between the developer with the car club community will encourage other car clubs in Ja-karta and even Bandung to have a rally to the Ja-babeka area.”

Meanwhile, Head of Bekasi Regency Tourism Office, Sutia Resmulyawan said, “We expect the Sport City will be able to organize automotive

sports events like in the Sentul circuit as well as the off-road ones.”

Sutia suggested that Fun Rally held that day to be scheduled as a regular community agenda by BIT. “So, all the events related to hobby in West Java and DKI Jakarta can be accommodated in Jababeka and the tourism center of Graha Pari-wisata will become international arena,” he add-ed.

The Fun Rally was attended by 55 participants mostly from the GOT (Generation of Territory) Club and Mercy Langka.

Representing GOT, Hendrik Abeng said, “What envisioned by GOT members, including the car clubs at the President University, has become re-ality. The Mercedes car photo on the cover is the winner of the previous Fun Rally contest.”

One participant of Fun Rally said, “Everyone appreciated it, asking for the event to be held more often. We’re grateful PEC lends its back yard for the car clubs to do various activities.

Meantime PHRI Official Maulana said, “Hope-fully the cooperation between BIT and Jababe-ka Residence will upscale the status of Cikarang area. We also hope Jababeka will soon realize its plan to build the F1 circuit like the one in Singa-pore as part of the Sport City development.” Photo by Bekasi Industrial Tourism (TPP)

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EDUCATION

Switzerland Ambassador to Indonesia, H.E. Yvonne Baumann Gave Commencement Speech in ITB Graduation Ceremony

ITB held Graduation Ceremo-ny for 567 students of Under-graduate Programs from 12 Fa-culties/Schools. Her Excellency Yvonne Baumann, the Switzer-land Ambassador to Indonesia, ASEAN, and Timor Leste, was also present to give commence-ment speech before the gradu-ates, parents, and the guests in Sasana Budaya Ganesa.

This was not Baumann’s first time coming to Bandung, but this is the first time she came to ITB. She was pleased to be able to visit Bandung again, this time to witness the Gra-duation Ceremony of ITB, whom she thinks have been produc-

ing many good scientists, engi-neers, and business leaders.

According to Baumann, edu-cation plays an important part in our lives. “It is the strong-est thing, because with educa-tion we can change the world,” said Baumann. She uses Ste-phen Hawking, a famous sci-entist who just recently passed away, as an example. With his poor physical condition, Hawk-ing changed the world by doing researches in cosmology.

This proves that with educa-tion, we can create a better world than the previous generation. Nowadays, learning becomes easier with the help of technolo-

gy, such as internet, laptop, and smartphone. Education can be used to solve some problems, es-pecially overcoming hoaxes by mastering technology. “Indone-sia is one of the countries with the best democratic transfor-mation,” said Baumann. Today, the world is more peaceful, all thanks to education. Education changes the world. What ever you do, whatever title you got, that is your strength. “Beauti-ful thing about learning is that anyone can take it from you, be-cause there is always something you can do,” finish Baumann.

H.E. Yvonne Baumann is one of the ambassadors who had the chance to attend ITB’s Gradua-tion Ceremony. Previously, at the ITB’s First Graduation Ceremo-ny in October 2017, the French Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor Leste, Jean-Charles Ber-thonnet, also gave commence-ment speech for the graduates of ITB. Similarly, the British Ambassador to Indonesia, ASE-AN, and Timor Leste, Moazzam Malik, also gave a speech at the ITB’s Second Graduation Cere-mony in April 2017.

International GraduatesA day before, on Friday,

6/4/2018, ITB also held a Gra-duation Ceremony for Postgra-duate Students. There are two international students who are graduating amongst the 867 students of Master Programs and Doctor Programs. “There

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Ambassador Mission of Japan to ASEAN: Japanese Government Welcomes for More Students From Indonesia

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President University host-ed Kazuo Sunaga, Ambassador Mission of Japan to ASEAN in a seminar titled “45th Anniver-sary of Japan-ASEAN Friend-ship and Cooperation” that was held in Charles Himawan Au-ditorium President Universi-ty located in Jababeka Indus-trial Estate, Cikarang (5/4). Chairman of Jababeka Group and Founder of President Uni-versity, S.D Darmono, Rector of President University, Dr. Jony O. Har yanto, S.E, MM., MA, along with rectorate members

and approximately 400 stu-dents and lecturers came to the event.

Kazuo Sunaga talked about the history of Japan-ASEAN relationship and also Japan’s diplomacy toward ASEAN. Japan-ASEAN Ministerial Con-ference on Synthetic Rubber in 1977 marks the start of the co-operative relationship between both parties. Since then, Japan keeps maintaining cooperation with ASEAN in various aspects including building ASEAN Plus Three and the establishment of

the Mission of Japan to ASEAN.According to Kazuo, there

are five principles of Japan’s ASEAN democracy which are:

Protect and promote univer-sal values, ensure a free and open seas cooperation with ASEAN member states, pro-mote trade and investment, protect and nurture Asia’s diverse cultural heritages and traditions, and promote exchanges among the young generations.

Many ASEAN students come to Japan to study. Ka-zuo stated that Vietnam has the highest number of stu-dents in Japan among other ASEAN countries followed by Thailand.

“Japanese government is very welcome for more stu-dents from Indonesia,” said Kazuo.

Furthermore, S.D Dar-mono stated his view on Indonesian education. He hopes that many Indone-sian students come to Ja-pan to study, especially en-gineering field. He sees that if Indonesia wish to be a key player in ASEAN, Indonesia will need engineers to build the country.

“Indonesia is 12 times larger by size than Japan, yet the difference in indus-try and technology is very high. We need to build the country by developing tech-nology and industry, that is why students need to start consider Japan as the main destination to study engi-neering and learn Japanese work and study ethic and discipline,” said S.D Darmo-no. (TPP)

of the students at the presti-gious event. “By participating in the event, they can expand their insight, knowledge, expe-rience and networking. Russia is quite capable in science and high technology. The coopera-tion with Russia in technolo-gy is our opportunity,” he said while receiving the students at the Embassy in Moscow.

The Diponegoro University team consisted of four students named Christian M.T. Sinaga (Electrical Engineering), Aure-lia T. Senduk (Environmental Engineering), Eko Wahyu Sa-putro (Mechanical Engineering) from the Faculty of Engineer-

Student Exchange Partnership between President University and Babson University United States

President University wel-comed one of the represen-tative of Babson University, United States, Prof. James Hopes on Thursday (29/3) in President University campus, located in Jababeka Indus-trial estate, Cikarang. The meeting was discussed on the student exchange part-nership.

Prof. James Hopes wel-comed by Vice Rector for Communications and Part-nerships, Handa S. Abidin, S.H. LL.M, Ph.D., and Direc-tor for International Part-

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nerships, Marissa N. Astika, B.Sc, MBA. There will be two Business students of Babson University that will study at President University.

“I think Asian Universi-ty has much to offer and by sending these students may-be we pioneer relationship in which not only do Asian stu-dents come to America but perhaps American students will come to Asia to learn. If this initial program is a suc-cess and perhaps we can en-large it,” said Prof. James Hopes. (TPP)

are actually 10 internatio-nal students who graduat-ed in this period, but only two of them who joined the ceremony. The ten students are from Uganda, Malaysia, Laos, Libya, Nigeria, Czech Republic, and South Korea,” said Samitha Dewi Djajanti, Director of Public Relations and Alumni of ITB.

One of the internatio-nal graduates is Nakanwagi Orashida from Uganda, who studied Urban and Regional Planning Master Program. “I came here to Indonesia to study in Urban and Regional Planning, and today I gradu-ate. I’m very happy for that,” said Nakanwagi Orashida.

Rashida, her nickname, expresses her gratitude to-wards people she has met in ITB. “ITB is a good univer-sity, especially for my aca-demic experience. I have the chance to meet the best lecturers who are high-ly knowledgeable in my fa-culty. They’re very open, approachable, and we can consult them anytime we want, they would also give us direct feedback. They as-sure us that we fully under-stand what we’re going to do with our research. I am very thankful for this ex-perience,” she said. Rashi-da also expresses that she loves Bandung for the peo-ple’s friendliness. (TPP)

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UGM Student Wins Model United Nations in Malaysia

UGM students once again make achievements in the in-ternational level. This time, its International Relations student, Angelo Abil Wijaya, won the conference in Malay-sia, earning the Outstanding Delegate title during the Ma-laysian National Model United Nations, held in Kuala Lum-pur, Malaysia from 30 March to 1 April 2018.

“The conference was at-tended by 400 delegates from around the world. I was hap-py that despite the short pre-paration amidst the mid-term test, I still made an achieve-ment at the international le-vel,” said Angelo on Tuesday (4/3).

Angelo won the simulation of the First Committee of the General Assembly under the topic Measures to Address Il-licit Trade in Small Arms. He said before the conference, participants were asked to submit position papers con-taining initial position infor-mation of the country that joined the General Assembly.

“I spent a few days to do

the position paper because it needed in-depth research to make the content of the pa-per accurate and factual,” he commented on his preparation for the competition.

He added during the con-ference the participants gave statements to the committee like a UN diplomat. They were also asked to submit paper-work and draft resolution. He said he also became sponsors for other delegates as well as document writers.

He said his participation in the event was not only an op-portunity to make UGM proud but also to hone his academic skills. For him, the experience and ability gained from the event became his capital to al-ways develop himself through creative process apart from formal lectures.

“The competition sharp-ens the skills of research and thinking. Communica-tion skills, especially pub-lic speaking and negotiation, are also trained through the diplomacy simulation event,” said Angelo. (TPP)

ing, and Beti Safitri (Chemistry) from the Faculty of Science and Mathematics.

According to Christian, the Artificial Tree works by absorb-ing the air and filtering it with a membrane mounted inside the air hose. This membrane will fil-ter out the carbon dioxide (CO2) with other incoming gases. The carbon dioxide will be converted by plasma technology into oxy-gen (O2) to be released out of the system and carbon monoxide (CO) gas which will be stored for subsequent conversion into al-ternative fuels.

The Moscow International In-ventions and Innovative Tech-

nology Salon “Archimedes” this year presented various invention and innovation in medical technology, trans-portation, mechanical engi-neering, aerospace industry, information and telecommu-nications technology, metal-lurgy, agroindustry, as well as human protection and rescue.

As many as 26 countries participated in the event, in-cluding Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Saudi Ara-bia, South Korea, Kazakh-stan and Portugal, along with 55 regions in Russia. (KEMLU/TPP)

Japanese government is very welcome for more students from Indonesia,” said Kazuo.

A team of Diponegoro Uni-versity (Undip) students ma-naged to bring home the gold medal after participating in the 21st Moscow International In-ventions and Innovative Tech-nology Salon “Archimedes” held in Moscow on April 5-8, 2018. They introduced an artificial tree called ATOMP (Artificial Transparent Tree of Membrane Photocatalyst).

They were also rewarded the Gold Medal Special Award by the Association of Thai Innova-tion and Invention Promotion.

Indonesian Ambassador to Russia M. Wahid Supriya-di appreciated the achievement

Welcoming Kartini Day 2018, Senior Living D’Khayangan Performs Musical Drama

To commemorate the birthday of Raden Ajeng Kartini (an Indonesian heroine for wo men emancipation) which falls on April 21, Senior Living D’Khayangan Jababeka staged a musi-cal drama featuring young artists as well as the members of the D’Khayangan.

Head of Business Development of PT Jababe-ka Longlife City, Trisno Muldani, said the per-formance is one of the means for the seniors in D’Khayangan to self-actualize themselves.

“Elderly people should keep their physical, mental, social and spiritual aspects healthy. Participating in the drama is part of the men-tal exercises. Performing in front of a crowd will strengthen their confidence. The prob-lems of the seniors are usually moody, lack of enthusiasm, feeling alone and useless. At the D’Khayangan, we always increase their spirit, passion and enthusiast so that their pride can be lifted again,” Trisno said on the sidelines of the show on Tuesday (4/24).

In his speech, Director of PT Jababeka Longlife City Senior Living D’Khayangan, Mar-lin Marpaung, expressed his gratitude to the seniors who have enthusiastically prepared the

show and their spirit to share with others. “I would like appreciate the seniors for their spir-it and enthusiast in succeeding the event,” he said.

In the meantime, Head of Event and Promo-tion of D’Khayangan Agus Triyanto detailed the performance staged by the members of D’Khayangan. “The show covers a musical dra-ma, angklung music, and a Jimbaran drama, prepared in two months,” he said.

Agus added the promotions done through the website of D’Khayangan and Whastapp broad-cast showed a positive result in attracting more spectators. “We also invite the elderly from out-side so that they will know better D’Khayangan that we have a healthy and lively elderly resi-dence,” he added.

Sponsored by adult diapers brand of Confi-dence, the event was attended by 50s seniors from some elderly communities in the sur-rounding areas of D’Khayangan Jababeka.

“We prioritize the existence of elderly here by giving them appreciation and quality activities,” Agus said. Photo by President Post (IRAWAN/TPP)

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Indonesia Ultimate Golf Series 2018 Held Again

Jababeka Golf Holds Jababeka

Senior Golf Tournament

Again

Tanjung Lesung Cooperates with Kuai Sports Promotions to Promote Rhino X-Tri 2018 OverseasFollowing the success of the

2016-2017 series, the Indone-sia Ultimate Golf Series (IUGS) 2018 is running again. Con-ducted in two qualifying phas-es, the tournament will be held at 11 best golf courses in Indo-nesia with location divided into five areas.

The five areas are DKI Ja-karta, covering Gading Raya Golf Club and Damai Indah Golf Club; West Java area in-cludes Bogor Raya Golf Club, Rancamaya Golf & Country Club and Bandung Giri Ga-

Jababeka Golf and Coun-try Club again held the “Jaba-baeka Senior Golf Tournament” at the Padang Golf Cikarang on Wednesday (4/25).

The tournament was partici-pated in by 50 golfers from sev-eral regions such as Cikarang, Bekasi, Karawang, Jakarta, Bandung, and others.

Here is the list of winners of the Jababeka Senior Golf Tour-nament:

For the skill category, the win-ner of nearest to the pin # 13 is Mr. Suhenda with a distance of 11 meters and the winner of lon-gest drive # 9 is also Mr. Suhen-da with a distance of 195 meters.

The Special Econom-ic Zone for Tourism Tanjung Lesung held a press confer-ence about Rhino Cross Tri-athlon 2018 at the President Lounge Menara Batavia, Ja-karta, on Wednesday (4/25).

Rhino X-Tri is the first open cross triathlon cham-pionship in Indonesia con-sisting of swimming, cy-cling and running across the beauty and natural challeng-es of Tanjung Lesung. It will be held on September 29-30, 2018 along with Rhino Trail Run and Rhino MTB XCM (Rhino Mountain Bike Cross Country Marathon).

To get more spectators and participants, the Organiz-ing Committee of Rhino X-Tri cooperates with Hong Kong-

hana; Java area covers Finna Golf & Country Club and Boro-budur Golf Club; Bali-Lom-bok area covers Bali National Golf Club and Sire Beach Golf & Country Club; and Sulawe-si area includes AKR Grand Kawanua Club Manado and Padivalley Golf Club Makassar.

The IUGS 2018 officially be-gan on Thursday (4/5) and runs until September 2018. The top 11 golf courses in five areas of Indonesia have been working together to bring the golf series to the next level and

based Kuai Sports Promotions to promote the event overseas. A memorandum of understand-ing (MoU) has been signed by Managing Director of PT. Bant-en West Java Rully Lasahido and Managing Director of Kuai Sports Promotions Kris Van de Velde.

“Rhino X-Tri is part of Tan-jung Lesung Enchantment Fes-tival held on 29-30 September 2018. This festival is a collabo-ration program of Banten Tour-ism Office, Pandeglang Tourism Office and PT Banten West Java with a full support by Tourism Ministry,” said Esthy Reko Astu-ty, Expert Staff of Tourism Min-ister.

Rully Lasahido said that Rhi-no X-Tri is held on the date close to Singapore Triathlon and Bei-

create the best amateur golf series in Indonesia.

The qualifying round, which only need one round, is orga-nized in two phases and the players must be in the top 30 to qualify for the final round.

In addition to provide a golf game for the business people, the IUGS 2018 is also aimed to attract more visitors to vi sit Indonesia for not only enjoy-ing the classy golf courses, but also many interesting tourist attractions in Indonesia. (IND/TPP)

jing Triathlon to attract more overseas athletes.

Kris Van de Velde added, “Kuai Sports is proud to pro-mote this Rhino X-Tri event to the regional and internation-al audiences. We are targeting 100 international athletes par-ticipating in this exciting event.”

Rhino X-Tri will be held in 3 categories: Eagle which will match the number of swimming 1500 meters, biking 30 kilome-ters and running 15 kilometers. Rhino is the category of swim-ming 1000 meters, cycling 20 kilometers and running 10 kilo-meters, while the Bull category is swimming 500 meters, cycling 10 kilometers and running 5 ki-lometers. Visit www.rhinoxtri-athlon.com to register. (REZA/TPP)

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SPORTS

In the category of Senior Flight, the Best Nett II was achieved by Mr. Alan with gross 51, handicap 13, nett 64. Mean-while the Best Nett I was grabbed by Mr. Darmanto with gross 51, handicap 17, nett 68.

The Best Gross title at this golf tournament went to Mr. Edi AM with gross 59.

In the category of Guest La-dies Flight, the Best Nett was won by Mrs. Kim Ok with gross 80, handicap 16, and nett 64, while the Best Gross was seized by Mrs. Jang with gross 71.

Designed by world-class golf-er and architect Nick Faldo, Ja-babeka Golf & Country Club is

located at KM 31 Kota Jababe-ka, Cikarang, about 30 minutes from Jakarta. The Jababeka Golf & Country Club offers a chal-lenging field with international class championships equipped with strategic elements, such as water features, a wide selec-tion of tees and various pin po-sitions, at the same time provid-ing magnificent views and lush green field.

The 67-hectare golf course has 18 holes and a 72 par, pro-viding a true challenge and an unforgettable golfing experience for the busy executives of both local and foreign golf players.(TPP)