The first story for today’s Diplomatic Corner is from Brunei Darussalam.
Wife Organization of Civil Servants or Dharma Wanita Persatuan of Indonesian embassy in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam carried out tourism promotion to Bali on January 23-27, 2019. Based on the press release from the Indonesian embassy in Bandar Seri Begawan, received by Antara in Jakarta, on Monday, the participants’ tour of tourism promotion became special by the existence of a number of ambassadors’ wives of neighbor countries in Bandar Seri Begawan, such as wife of Laos, Myanmar, German and French ambassador. Chairwoman of Dharma Wanita Persatuan, Nani Sujatmiko hoped that the event could encourage and ensure diplomatic and international community that Indonesia is safe and worthy to be tourism and vacation destination. Trip to Denpasar, Bali is reached through directly flight of Royal Brunei Airlines (RBA). RBA has routinely served Bandar Seri Begawan (BSB) - Denpasar route and also BSB to Jakarta and Surabaya. In the future, RBA will explore new line to Lombok. It is hoped the opening of RBA destination can encourage the increase of Brunei tourists to Indonesia.
The next info is from Denpasar.
Cooperation of Institute of Indonesian Art of Denpasar and Phetchaburi Rajabhat University was signed by Rector of the institute, I Gede Arya Sugiartha and President of Phetchaburi Rajabhat University-Thailand, Prof. Sanor Klinngam in Denpasar, Bali on Monday (28/1). The signature of the cooperation was begun by showing visual profile, explanation of vision and mission and superiority of each college as well as each culture of the country. According to Arya, Phetchaburi Rajabhat University actually has been long time to visit the Institute of Indonesian Art, Denpasar because they want to learn Indonesian arts and especially Balinese arts, to enrich their arts that are developed. In addition, they want to introduce their arts.
And the last information is from Manila.
Indonesia Diaspora Network (IDN) Chapter Manila cooperated with Metro Manila Development Authority -MMDA to invite community, especially Indonesian citizens who stay in Manila to conduct clean action of Manila Bay on Sunday (27/1). IDN Manila stated that “Manila Bay Clean Up” is as a form of Indonesian people’s awareness on sustainable environment where they live. Seashore rehabilitation activity which is full of pollution of plastic garbage is also hoped to be able to help save local community on impact of littering and plastic waste. The event with the theme “Manila Bay Clean Up" is to clean garbage at Manila Bay not only for one day, but also for long term in a bid to improve people’s awareness of clean environment in their daily life.