VOI - Voice of Indonesia | RRI - Radio Republik Indonesia

The Public Broadcasting Institution (LPP) Radio Republic of Indonesia (RRI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding/MOU with Voice of America (VOA) Indonesian Service, Wednesday (7/7/2021) virtually.

In his remarks, Mohammad Rohanudin as the President Director of the Indonesian Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) said that the cooperation between RRI and VOA is very valuable for the two countries, Indonesia and the United States.

"This is a very important and valuable cooperation for the two countries," said Mohammad Rohanudin, Wednesday (7/7/2021).

"Why do I say that? Two countries are big countries, whose point is to have a good image of the country, whether it's America in RRI, then RRI and Indonesia in the United States there," he added.

"Indeed, recently this year I got a strong collaboration between Voice of America and RRI, how much RRI is spread throughout Indonesia, imaged by VOA and imaged by Indonesian local cultures throughout the world that RRI is doing simultaneously with VOA," he explained. .

Rohanudin reminded RRI to be careful to maintain the quality of the news so that it could be accepted by the people in Indonesia and the Indonesian people in America.

"The news broadcast by RRI and VOA is of course not news that often happens in Indonesia, wrong news," he said.

He again reminded that the image of Indonesia must be maintained by RRI without abandoning its journalistic abilities.

"Hopefully this cooperation will be beneficial for both countries politically, socially and economically," he hoped.

Meanwhile, Voice of America Program Director John Lippman appreciated the memorandum of understanding between VOA and RRI. In his view, Indonesia is a very important country for the United States.

"VOA Indonesia service is one of the stars of our service. And we are very pleased to be working with RRI, a strong multimedia organization," said Lippman.

Lippman also praised RRI's broadcasts and programs when he visited RRI some time ago.

"In fact, we believe that when we visited RRI, I saw for myself how RRIN produces and broadcasts programs. And the programming is very strict in screening and audience-oriented," he said.

And this, he continued, is the right content that we can use as one of the content/programs of the 47 language program that we present to the world.

"And we are lucky that you become our partner. We look forward to collaborating with RRI, exchanging content, exchanging best practices, and expanding collaboration between the two organizations and I personally hope to see you all again in Washington or Jakarta," he explained.

"And on behalf of VOA I congratulate you on joining our extended family," he added.

The signing was attended virtually by the Director of Information, Polhukam, Directorate General of Information and Public Communication, Ministry of Communications and Informatics, Bambang Gunawan and Yudho Sasongko from the Indonesian Embassy in Washington as well as representatives from RRI and VOA. (RRI)