Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives -DPR, Agus Hermanto conducted visit to South Korea and he was directly received by his Korean counterpart, Joo Seung Yong. The two countries agreed to improve relations in economy, transportation, industry and defense in the agreement of special strategic partnership through the meeting of President Joko Widodo and Korean President Moon Jae-in in Bogor, West Java in November 2017. Agus Hermanto added that related to economic and trade relations of the two countries, President Joko Widodo and President Moon Jae-in promised to have bilateral trade volume worth $30 billion dollars in 2022. South Korea is the third biggest foreign investor in Indonesia. The value of the second trade balance in 2017 was around $16 million dollars and comparing previous year, it increased around 10 percent in the first quarter in 2018.
Rowing Venue at Jakabaring Sport City (JSC) in Palembang, South Sumatra has get recognition which is the best in Asia according to Olympic Council of Asia -OCA. The venue is recognized as the largest and the best rowing venue in the world. The place is used for rowing competition of Asian Games 2018. Senior Vice President of Asian Rowing, E E Nicholas praised the Indonesian government, especially Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing because the Indonesian government has built good, beautiful, and sophisticated rowing venue with complete facilities. Meanwhile, President of the World Rowing Federation -FISA, Roland Jean Cristhope said that the Indonesian government has succeeded and provided world class of rowing facility. Through the press release on Friday (24/8), he also said that the venue is the best one and has international standard. Rowing venue has line with 200 meters wide and 2,200 meters long and 5 meters deep. The venue has also been completed with tribune with the capacity of 2,144 chairs, start-finish tower and arrangement of the area around the venue.
Yasu Project, a company of Mobile Mosque maker, plans to establish cooperation with the Indonesian government to develop innovation for worship facility that can move around. CEO of Yasu Project, Yasuhura Inoue said that his side has conducted approach with Ministry of Industry to develop the future investment by making mobile mosque in Indonesia so that later, it can be exported to various countries. But, to develop the technology, it’s better for Indonesian experts to carry out training first to Japan for technology transfer. Afterwards, this can be developed and assembled in Indonesia. The mobile mosque is developed for the first time to welcome Olympiad 2020 in Japan for athletes and Muslims who want to pray.