Edelweiss Tourism Village, which is under the auspices of the Central Office of Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park (BB-TNBTS) for farmer groups, was inaugurated on Saturday (10/11) through a series of Land of Edelweiss festival. Director of Conservation of Forest Service Environment at the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Dody Wahyu Karyanto said that the festival had the theme “The Harmony of Conservation and Culture of the Tengger Community”. He said that the inauguration of the Edelweiss Tourism Village is expected to provide benefits for residents of Wonokitri Village, Pasuruan Regency and Ngadisari Village, Probolinggo Regency and to attract a lot of domestic and foreign tourists. Dody also stated in Wonokitri Village, Tosari Subdistrict, Pasuruan Regency on Saturday that with the presence of Edelweiss Tourism Village, the problem of Edelweiss flower scarcity could be directly overcome through conservation. At the same time, this also makes the village community become tourist actors, and can provide education to tourists who visit.
Mayor of Surabaya, Tri Rismaharini inaugurated the National Hero Wage Rudolf Museum (WR) Soepratman. The museum is located on Jalan Mangga, Tambaksari, Surabaya, East Java. At the inauguration of WR Soepratman on Saturday (10/11), she said that the aim of building the Wage Rudolf Soepratman Museum is to understand the struggle of heroes in the past. In addition, the construction of the museum is a form of respect from the Surabaya City Government in a bid to appreciate its services to the Indonesian nation. Mayor Risma also said that most of the Indonesian people know WR Soepratman as the person who created the “Indonesia Raya”, the national anthem. Up to now, the song remains eternal for Indonesian people. The more museums in Surabaya are, the better for the future of children is.
A total of 25 letters from the nation's founders were exhibited at the National Museum, Jakarta from November 10-22 in an exhibition entitled "Founding Letter of the Nation." An Exhibition Curator, Bonnie Triyana at the opening of the exhibition on Saturday said that the letters on display included Soekarno, Mohammad Hatta, Sutan Sjahrir, Tan Malaka, Kartini, Agus Salim, John Lie, and Ki Hajar Dewantara. He explained that the founding figure was chosen. Of course, the letters were still there, and could describe the author as well as the situation at the time. Bonnie said that the exhibition "The Founding Letter of the Nation" is expected to stimulate young people to see history or information from their main sources. The letters were obtained from a collection of various agencies and private collections, including the National Archives of Indonesia (ANRI), Tamansiswa Museum, Chinese Peranakan Museum, National Archives of Dutch, and International Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis. While the private collection was from Mohammad Hatta's family owned by Gemala Hatta, Sutan Sjahrir's letter from the collection of Dutch literature and civilization professors at Sorbone University, Paris, Kees Snoek, and Tan Malaka's letter from historian Harry Poeze. Meanwhile, Director of History at the Ministry of Education and Culture, Triana Wulandari said that the exhibition was a collaboration between the Ministry of Education and Culture and Historia.id. The exhibition wanted to provide access to boutiques about archives that had not been directly seen. The letters presented are mostly original letters, and some of them have been duplicated. She also said that almost all letters were written in Dutch. Triana added that now, the letters have been translated into Indonesian and given a contextual explanation.