To attract visitors to the Indonesian product exhibition at the "Indonesia Bazaar", the Indonesian Embassy in Tokyo held a Japanese-language shadow puppet show with Indonesian diaspora puppeteers. Indonesia Bazaar aims to promote Indonesian products, including food and beverage products, namely coffee, tea and herbal, as well as clothing products. Indonesian Ambassador to Japan, Heri Akhmadi appreciated a leather puppet performance at the exhibition because it combines Indonesian art and culture with Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises products, originally made in Indonesia, which are marketed. Indonesia Bazaar is held throughout the month of July.
Universitas Surabaya (Ubaya) invites hundreds of foreign students from 12 countries to join Javanese Calligraphy. The twelve countries are the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Korea, the Republic of China, India, Bangladesh, Kenya, the United States and Indonesia. This activity is one of the Ubaya Online Summer Program 2021 series with the theme "Creative Industries: During the Covid-19 Pandemic". 625 students from various leading universities in the world learned to write Javanese script virtually last Wednesday (7/7). The Ubaya Online Summer Program is a routine activity held virtually once to twice a year with a series of activities to get to know and learn about Indonesian arts and cultures.