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VOINews.id: Indonesian Minister of Transportation, Budi Karya Sumadi is visiting Bali to inspect progress on a plan to build a light rail transit (LRT) project in the province.

VOINews.id: Head of the Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), Dwikorita Karnawati, encourages continuous strengthening of cooperation and collaboration between countries in the Indian Ocean region. This is to prevent and minimize the risks resulting from earthquake and tsunami disasters which could occur at any time. She said this while opening "Webinar of Lessons Learned during Exercise Indian Ocean Wave 2023" organized by the Inter-Governmental Coordination Group for Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWMS), recently.

VOInews, Jakarta: Human Resource Development Agency of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology awarded six groups of Digital Leadership Academy (DLA) 2023 training action implementers on Saturday (16/12/2023) at the Gran Melia Hotel Jakarta. The activity aims to build digital leadership commitment to accelerate digital transformation in Indonesia.

"This is a form of joint commitment that all of you show that DLA has an important meaning in order to build commitment, especially in order to accelerate digital transformation in Indonesia," said Head of the Center for Education and Training (Kapusdiklat) Kominfo Baso Saleh on Saturday (16/12/2023) in Jakarta.

The six best action plan implementation groups for DLA 2023 training include the North Sumatra DLA Training Group, Amazon Web Series (AWS) Partners from the Mojokerto Regency Library and Archives Office in East Java, Yogyakarta Special Region, Gorontalo, Oxford Internet Institute, and the East Java Mining Geospatial Interaction Collaboration.

Meanwhile, as a follow-up to this DLA 2023 activity, Head of the Kominfo Human Resources Development Agency Hary Budiarto hopes that the action plans of the winners can be implemented well in each region.

"So we have coordinated at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology, that if there is an action plan that requires energy from students, of course it can be implemented," said Hary Budiarto.

Digital Leadership Academy 2023 is a human resource development training program from the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology specifically for leaders in the public sector (Ministries, Non-Ministerial Government Institutions, Local Governments, Universities) and the private sector.

Lieutenant Colonel Wirastyo Haprabu at the KRI​​​​​​​ Diponegoro 365 warship that is ready to serve a peace mission on the Lebanese border. (ANTARA/Jessica) - 

Voinews, Jakarta - The KRI Diponegoro 365 warship is ready to conduct a peace mission on the Lebanese border that will last for a year, or throughout 2024.

KRI Diponegoro Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Wirastyo Haprabu, stated here on Saturday that the warship, with 120 personnel, will carry out peace duties along with the Garuda Maritime Task Force (MTF) XXVIII.

He noted that the warship arrived at Batam Naval Base IV on Wednesday (December 13) to refuel and prepare before continuing its journey to Colombo on December 17.

"We are currently docking in Batam to refuel and do a final check. (Sailing) from Jakarta to Batam is the first stage before we continue to leave for the second stage, namely Batam to Colombo," Haprabu remarked.

The main task of the peace mission is to prevent illegal goods, especially weapons, in and out of Lebanon, he stated.

"Then our second task according to the mandate of the United Nations is to assist the Lebanese navy in military integration operations," he explained.

Haprabu said that his side would carry out training to assist the Lebanese Navy.

KRI Diponegoro 365 has participated four times in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) operations since 2009.

Haprabu remarked that KRI Diponegoro 365 is a corvette warship equipped with a helicopter unit and can detect the presence of submarines.

"KRI Diponegoro has the specifications required by the UN. The 1,700-ton warship is capable of traveling at a speed of 28 knots and equipped with complete weapons, such as a 76 mm cannon," he elaborated.

The warship also has surface missiles, with a range of 100 km, an anti-aircraft radar, and two units of 20 mm caliber cannons on the right and left sides//ANT-VOI