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The Productive Migrant Village Program (Desmigratif), used as a concept to manage villages of migrant workers in an integrated manner, applies four main pillars to protect Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI), Manpower Minister Ida Fauziyah said.

Desmigratif is a program by the Manpower Ministry made to manage villages of migrant workers in an integrated manner. The efforts involve relevant ministries and institutions to empower, protect, and serve migrant workers and their families, starting from the villages scope.

"Desmigratif is applied with four main pillars, namely opening migration services in villages, developing productive businesses, facilitating creation of family development communities or community parenting, and facilitating the growth of cooperatives or village-owned enterprises," Minister Fauziyah noted qt an event held to commemorate the International Migrant Day 2022 in East Lombok District, West Nusa Tenggara, on Sunday.

She informed that regarding the first pillar, the ministry has formed the Migration Service Centers in villages to serve migrant workers and those wanting to work abroad. The centers provide information on job market, job guidance, and migrant workers data verification.

Among the services provided are creation of documents based on personal needs; assistance for migrant workers' troubled families; and data collection on village community migration before and after working abroad.

The efforts will involve the village administrators.

The second pillar is intended to create an independent and productive society geared towards entrepreneurship by conducting training, developing productive business innovations, utilizing the application of appropriate technology, providing business facility assistance, business incubation, marketing entrepreneurial products through institutional collaboration.

"Moreover, the Manpower Ministry also helps improve village facilities through labor intensive and facilitation of volunteer labor assistance, in order to facilitate community access and efficiency in running the economy in rural areas," she informed.

In the third pillar, the ministry aims to inform the community that children's education is not only sourced from their biological parents. Society is also obliged to care for children regardless of their biological status, especially for children of migrant workers.

The efforts to meet these ends must be made through guidance and counseling, providing guidance on financial management.

For example, the community can assist these children in reading, writing, arithmetic, arts, sports, healthy internet, or spirituality. The ministry itself has also collaborated with its stakeholder to create modules on community parenting for caregivers and these children.

As for the last pillar, Ida stated that to rebuild the nation's culture, one must go through mutual cooperation economically to facilitate access business capital, working capital, and at the same time protect the migrant workers from the restrains of loan sharks or brokers who put their lives in difficult situation. (Antaranews)

The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) has delivered at least 2.5 million litres of clean water for survivors of the 5.6-magnitude earthquake that jolted Cianjur District, West Java Province, on November 21.

The clean water would be supplied for the next three months to meet the needs of displaced residents in several temporary shelters and affected villages, according to PMI officer Fajar Aciana.

"Over the past 25 days since the deadly quake occurred, PMI had distributed 2.5 million litres of clean water by using 17 trucks," coordinator of PMI-Cianjur Office's Disaster Emergency Response Unit Fajar Aciana said here on Saturday.

The targeted recipients stay at such temporary shelters as the ones in Pacet, Cugenang, Cianjur, and Warungkondang sub-districts owing to the absence of water supplies from local tap water companies, he said.

PMI must deliver at least 255,000 litres of clean water everyday to the targeted temporary shelters and affected villages, he added.

A 5.6-magnitude earthquake had jolted Cianjur District on November 21 at 1:21 p.m. local time.

The Cianjur district government revealed that the death toll from the recent earthquake had increased, from 334 on December 4 to 602 on December 14.

The number of houses brought down and severely damaged by the recent earthquake had also increased to 8,151.

"The number of severely damaged houses has increased, from 7,817 to 8,151 units. They all have been verified," Secretary of the Cianjur District Government Cecep Alamsyah stated on December 4.

Alamsyah said the number of houses suffering moderate damages had also increased, from 10,589 to 11,210 units.

The number of houses with mild damages also went up, from 17,195 to 18,469 units, he remarked while adding that the earthquake had also severely damaged 525 school buildings, 269 houses of worship, 14 healthcare facilities, and 17 office buildings.

According to Alamsyah, the government has prepared 2.5 hectares of land in Sirnagalih Village to be used for building 200 earthquake-resistant houses. (antaranews)

The Alumni Association of Bandung Institute of Technology (IA-ITB) has planned to invite representatives of 100 Turkish companies to Indonesia next year in an effort to attract them to invest in the country.

"In 2023 we are inviting 100 companies from Turkiye to Indonesia," IA-ITB Chairman Gembong Primadjaja told participants of the alumni association's national meeting here Sunday.

Inviting the Turkish companies to Indonesia has become one of the IA-ITB's action programs in 2023 in an attempt to help the government recover the economy, and empower local micro, small and medium enterprises.

"This is our first time to collaborate with the Turkish business community," Primadjaja said, adding that the IA-ITB is also keen to contribute to the development of technology-based MSMEs in Indonesia.

ANTARA reported earlier that on November 14, 2022, Indonesia and Turkiye had signed several strategic government-to-government and two business-to-business agreements.

According to Indonesian Ambassador to Turkiye Lalu M. Iqbal, the two nations would soon focus on realizing the agreements they had signed and accelerating the signing of agreements currently under discussion.

The two business-to-business agreements inked by the two countries cover the joint production of electric buses by Karsan of Turkiye and PT Schahmindo Perkasa (Credo Group) of Indonesia and the construction of the Trans-Sumatra Toll Road by PT Hutama Karya of Indonesia and Turkish contractor ERG Insaat.

The signing of the agreements was witnessed by Indonesian Minister of Public Works and Public Housing, Basuki Hadimuljono, and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

The agreements between the governments of the two countries cover cooperation in the fields of defense, environment, forestry, research and technology, innovation, and development cooperation assistance.

President Joko Widodo took note of the signing of the agreements during bilateral talks with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyib Erdogan, at the Apurva Kempinski in Indonesia's resort island of Bali on the sidelines of the G20 Summit on November 14, 2022. (antaranews)

 Deputy for Marketing of the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy Ni Made Ayu Marthini - 

The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy/The Tourism and Creative Economy Agency (Kemenparekraf/Baparekraf) implemented a specific strategy to continue to promote the potential of the Indonesian parekraf sector both in local and global markets.

In the discussion room Marketing and Special Interest Tourism and MICE - Event at the 2022 Parekraf National Coordination Meeting at the Grand Sahid Jaya Hotel, Central Jakarta, Friday (12/16/2022), Deputy for Marketing of the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy Ni Made Ayu Marthini said there was a shift in parekraf market trends post-COVID-19 pandemic, where currently tourists prefer to travel that is of a higher quality and full of activities, not just relaxing.

In addition, the age range of parekraf market consumers in Indonesia is currently dominated by the millennial generation who are hungry for knowledge and information that is interesting, concise, concise and clear. "So as a means of promotion, it must be catchy, short, clear and full of pictures," said Marthini.

According to a release received by Voice of Indonesia on Saturday, to attract the millennial market, said Marthini, in addition to short, solid and clear promotions, holding unique and interesting events during the _low season_ can also be a means to attract millennial market tourism. "So during the _low season_ we don't even relax, instead we have to make activities so there is _traction_ during the _low season_," he said.

Marthini added that digitalization also plays an important role in marketing the potential of the Indonesian parekraf sector to national and international markets. "Like it or not, we have to embrace digitalization and use it as a means of promotion (parekraf potential)," said Marthini.

Young Expert Immigration Analyst at the Directorate of Immigration Traffic at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Wachid Kuntjoro Djati added that to support the marketing of the Indonesian Parekraf market abroad, his party always collaborates with the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy. One of them is through the implementation of a visa-free visit policy for foreign tourists.

"So this policy was implemented as an effort to recover the Indonesian economy which was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Especially as an effort to recover the parekraf sector," said Wachid.

This discussion was also attended by echelon I and II officials within the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, and representatives from various local governments and members of the media//VOI