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Indonesian government will allocate Rp10.1 trillion for five priority destinations in 2020. They are Toba Lake, Borobudur, Lombok, Labuan Bajo, and Manado Bitung-Likupang. The budget consists of 7.6 trillion rupiahs from Public Works and People Housing Ministry, and 2.5 trillion rupiahs from Transportation Ministry. That was announced by Public Works and People Housing Minister Basuki Hadimuljono in written statement, on Sunday October 27 2019.

Last week, some ministers of Indonesia Onwards Cabinet had a meeting in Jakarta, discussing plan on country’s tourism development. They were Public Works and People Housing Minister Basuki Hadimuljono, Transport Minister Budi Karya SUmadi, State-owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir, Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Wishnutama Kusubandio, and Investment Coordinating Board Head Bahlil Lahadalia.

Through meeting with some tourism-related ministers, Minister Basuki hoped that other ministers understand about the ongoing and finished development programs. Basuki Hadimuljono added, infrastructure of the five destinations did not begin from zero. The government had built supporting facility and infrastructure. Besides that, Ministry of Public Works and People Housing had allocated 1.6 trillion rupiahs for this year.

On the other hand, Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Wishnutama Kusubandio in the meeting said that his side will create event concept according to cultures of each destination. Meanwhile, State-owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir said that his ministry will synergize with private sector, so that investment in form of infrastructure that had been finished will function optimally.

The statement was supported by Investment Coordinating Board Head Bahlil Lahadalia. He said that infrastructure development by government will be followed by investment certainty for private sector. Bahlil believed, that can be realized with coherent roadmap and direction.

Youths have an important role in the journey of a nation. History records that Indonesia's independence was achieved thanks to the role of the youths. Thanks to the insistence of youths who "kidnapped" Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta to Rengasdengklok, West Java, Indonesia then succeeded in proclaiming its independence in 1945.

Indeed, the role of youths in pursuing independence had existed long before 1945, starting from the establishment of the Boedi Oetomo youth organization in 1908, until the holding of the Youth Congress One and Two, which then produced a pledge known as the Youth Pledge.

The Youth Pledge initiated on 28 October 1928 became an instrument and encouragement for the Indonesian people to be independent. With the promulgation of the Youth Pledge, the struggle of the Indonesian nation which was formerly regional in nature was successfully put together to realize an independent Indonesia.

Of course, today's youths are different from the youths 91 years ago, Today's youths are living in the era of fast-paced technology 4.0. What was experienced by young people in 1928 is certainly different from today's youths when information technology is so advanced.

On one hand, the rapid development of information technology has positive and negative impacts. On the one hand, the speed of information technology enables young people to enhance their knowledge, development of resources, and competitiveness. However, the development of information technology also has a negative impact if what is received is destructive. Take for example; the information is about radicalism. Thus, Indonesian youths must now be smart to filter, sort and choose the information. They might differentiate which information is useful, less useful or dangerous.

In addition, Indonesian youths must have strong character, faith and piety, high integrity, honesty, politeness, leadership, intellectuality and responsibility. They must be disciplined and able to innovate in a bid to play an active role at the international level. Youths are the hope and future of the nation and state. Happy Youth Pledge Day!

Indonesian embassy in Rome conducts Indonesian Week in Italy to promote Indonesian arts and cultures, which is held in various places in Italy such as Rome, Grosseto and Napoli, until October 31, 2019. That was reported from  the Indonesian embassy’s press release in Rome which was received on Sunday (27/10). Through the Indonesian Week held in Tuscany, Grosseto, Governor of Grosseto, Cinzia Torraco hoped on Saturday (26/10) that Indonesia can become more famous in Grosseto, and vice versa. Deputy Mayor of Grosseto, Luca Agresti conveyed to regional leadership meeting and City’s Council on the importance of getting to know Indonesia, on of strength of new economy which is also rich on culture. Through culture, it is hoped to establish mutual understanding which can strengthen cooperation in other fields, including business.  In the Indonesian Week in Grosseto, the committee showed Indonesian film entitled ‘Valentine, Battle of Surabaya’ and ‘Kartini’ at Aurelia Antica theater in Grosseto.

Recently, Indonesian embassy in Lisabon, Portugal held Asian Gastronomy Festival. The Festival was conducted along with embassy of Indonesia, Bangladesh, the Philippines, South Korea, India, and Thailand. The Festival was held at Indonesian embassy’s office by presenting Asian cuisine. In the festival, visitors who were present had opportunity to see and to discuss directly food making process. Division of Asian promotion at Museu Santa Casa Misericórdia Ricardo da Costa, who attended along with his family said that he was lucky to find ingredients required for the dish at Asian shops in Lisbon. During the festival, the visitors could know similarity in culinary characteristics from each country in Asia. Similarity of the characteristics is interaction among people of Asia since hundreds of years ago.

Indonesia emphasized on strengthening of South-South Cooperation in a bid to answer the challengesof global development on the 18th Non-Aligned Movement Summit held in Baku, Azerbaijan on October 25 and 26. The meeting was attended by 21 Heads of States and Heads of governments, and also 49 officials in the ministerial level and Heads of parliamentary and delegations from more 121 member countries, observers of Non-Aligned Movement and states’ guests. The summit with the theme ”Upholding the Bandung Principles” was to ensure concerted and adequate response to the challenges of contemporary world and discussed efforts of the movement in responding global issues based on Dasasila Bandung, the ten principles of Bandung. Indonesia Ambassador, Husnan Bey Fananie who is also Head of Indonesian delegation in the Summit, said that key issues discussed by member countries in the meeting were the relevance and respect of Dasasila Bandung, the solidarity of members of Non-Aligned Movement against the Palestinian issue, poverty alleviation, climate change, cyber security, combating terrorism and efforts against unilateralism.

Voice of Indonesia in Jakarta presents Let’s Speak Bahasa Indonesia, a lesson in Bahasa  Indonesia or the Indonesian language on the radio, which introduces   some  Indonesian vocabularies and  guides  you to use them in a conversation. The segment of Let's Speak Bahasa Indonesia is a cooperation of Voice of Indonesia, with the Language Development and Cultivation Agency, the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture.  Today’s topic is Minum obat tiga kali sehari   or in English ‘Taking medicine three times a day’.  

Next is a conversation about  Minum obat tiga kali sehari or in English ‘Taking medicine three times a day’. Tony is sick and he has to see a doctor. Now, he wants to buy medicines at pharmacy.

After the conversation, now I’ll introduce some vocabularies and expressions related to the topic today.

If you want to ask about frequency in doing something in a certain time, in Indonesian language it usually starts with

berapa kali sehari                         which means   how many times a day

berapa kali seminggu                  which means   how many times a week

berapa kali sebulan            which means   how many times a month

berapa kali setahun            which means   how many times a year

Berapa kali sehari saya harus minum obat ini? which means how many times a day should I take the medicine?

Berapa kali seminggu Anda berolahraga? which means how many times a week do you do exercise?

Now, let’s listen to the use of frequency expressions  in the next sentences:

-Saya harus minum obat ini tiga kali sehari  which means I have to take the medicine three times a day.

-Saya berolahraga dua kali seminggu  which means I do exercise twice a week.

Next, to give instruction for taking medicine, you can use some expressions among others:

-Minum obat ini tiga kali sehari    (take the medicine three times a day) 

-Minum obat ini sebelum makan  (take the medicine before eating)       

-Ini antibiotik. Obat ini harus habis (this is antibiotic. This medicine must be taken up)