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The UI Delegation successfully won 1st place in a business competition in South Korea. The team consisted of six students of Engineering Faculty of University of Indonesia. They were chosen as champions, thanks to innovation in plastic waste treatment. Through innovative ideas in the form of processing plastic waste into raw material for three-dimensional printer filament yarn, the University of Indonesia (UI) delegation successfully won the title. They took home the Platinum Prize title or first place and a prize worth US$2,000 dollars. The competition entitled ‘the Asian Student's Venture Forum’ which was held in Seoul and Daejeon, South Korea in early April.The six students were Pande Bagus Widyantara, Muhammad Rasyad, Idrus Fahreza, Riska Amira, Naufal Arif, and Abiyyah. The concept offered by them is full of technology but it also puts forward interesting and financially promising business ideas. One of the team representatives, Pande Bagus said that as a UI Engineering student, he would like to put forward the findings of applied based engineering that could provide benefits to the community. He is proud to be able to represent UI in the prestigious event in Asia and meet students from some countries to introduce Indonesian culture and the quality of the youths.The Asian Students' Venture Forum is an annual competition event held by Korea Economic Daily and this year, it was sponsored by KT & G. This business start-up competition was attended by various countries in Asia, such as China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Philippines, Singapore, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. The biggest international business plan competition in South Korea has been held since 2002. Besides presenting new ideas and interesting innovations, all participants of the competition also took part in various cultural activities, social discussions, and discussions related to other global economic issues.

Minister of Industry Airlangga Hartarto opened the 2019 Muslim Fashion Festival (MUFFEST) at the Jakarta Convention Center, South Jakarta on Wednesday (1/5). The event that takes place on May 1 until 4 exhibits local designer works, cosmetic and jewelry products. In his remarks, Minister Airlangga Hartanto conveyed his appreciation to the designers and supporters of the event. He pointed out that the government pushes Indonesia to become the world's Muslim fashion center. He also stated that after building infrastructure this year, human resources are the next priority, including the creative sector. Therefore, it also has to push vocational school education to be able to create young designers to appear and reach overseas markets.He further said that his side continues to enhance the development of the Muslim fashion industry in Indonesia in bid to be more competitive in the global arena and to show Indonesia's readiness to become one of the world's Muslim fashion centers by 2020. The opportunities for the global and domestic Muslim fashion markets are still very huge. Thus, the domestic Muslim fashion industry must play a major role.Minister Airlangga Hartarto also emphasized that the high number of Muslims in the world is one of the driving engines to develop the Muslim fashion industry. In 2018, Indonesia’s total population of Muslims reached 24 percent of the total Muslim population in the world. The 2019 Muslim Fashion Festival is attended by more than 100 designers who exhibit various kinds of fashion, beauty and jewelry products.National Chairman of Indonesian Fashion Chamber, who is also the Chairperson of the 2019 Muslim Fashion Festival (MUFFEST), Ali Charisma said that Indonesian Muslim clothing has distinctive characteristics that are very clear, very varied; their creations are open and their appearance is extraordinary. This can bring Indonesia to compete with international brands.Meanwhile, Director General of Small, Medium and Various Industries at the Ministry of Industry, Gati Wibawaningsih said that the Ministry of Industry involved 656 Small and Medium Industries (IKM) and 60 designers in the development of the Muslim fashion industry during 2018-2019. She also explained that the development program is integrated from upstream to downstream. Examples of programs are the link and match of the Muslim fashion industry with the textile industry, technical guidance and certification of the Indonesian National Work Competency Standards, capacity building for Muslim fashion of Small and Medium Industries, and the development of new entrepreneurs for Muslim clothing.

Batam City held an event on the visit of Muhibah Bugis Melayu Serumpun on 27 April 2019.The event took place successfully because it was attended by 219 foreign tourists from Singapore.  Head of Area II, Deputy Regional Marketing Assistant I of the Ministry of Tourism, Trindiana M. Tikupasang said that the visit of the Muhibah Bugis Melayu Serumpun  is one of ways  to preserve culture and revive the glory of Bugis-Malay. The event was also to preserve the history of the Bugis-Malay that has been glorious through culinary, musical performances and dances. One of the cultures shown is the Bugis and Paduppa Dance.The dance was also performed beautifully by Sanggat Wan Sendari. Moreover,  Malay and Bugis songs were also played namely l Balo Lipa, Tak Akan Melayu Hilang di Dunia, Tana Ogi Wanuakku, and Zapin Pusaka songs. Related to the activity, the Indonesian Wonder for today’s edition   introduces  you one of the Malay cultural arts, namely Paduppa Bosara Dance. It is a welcoming dance of Bugis-Makassar people when guests arrive. In the past, the dance was often performed to entertain kings, to welcome noble guests, traditional parties, and wedding parties. Bosara itself is a typical plate of the Bugis-Makassar tribe in South Sulawesi. The basic material of Bosara is from iron and completed   with a distinctive cover like a large drum which is wrapped in brightly colored fabrics, such as red, blue, green or yellow, with golden flower ornaments around it. Besides being used as one of the instruments by regional dancers, Bosara also usually becomes  a crock for serving various traditional cakes as traditional symbols, especially at sacred events such as traditional weddings. Paduppa Bosara dance is a dance that is performed by women by bringing  cakes delivered to guests as a sign of honor. Now, it has many creations. Paduppa bosara dance uses traditional attire of Bodo clothes with complete decoration such as flower chain necklaces, bracelets, hair ornaments or headbands, earrings and wrist ornaments.

Indonesian men's doubles Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo and Marcus Fernaldi Gideon won the runner-up title in the 2019 Badminton Asia Championships after acknowledging Hiroyuki Endo-Yuta Watanabe's advantage in the final with a score of 18-21, 3-21.In the match that took place at the Wuhan Sports Center in China on Sunday (28/4), the Minions had mastered the control of the game in the first game and created a difference in scores that were quite far, although eventually they had to be overtaken and lost.In the second game, the Minions were unable to keep up with the fast play given by Endo-Watanabe so that they left the score gap very far until the end of the match. With the results of this 35-minute match, the head-to-head record of the two pairs is 2-1, with the advantage still being held by the Minions who are the world number-one pair.

Indonesian driver, Sean Gelael returned to packing points in the Formula 2 GP of Azerbaijan race after finishing eighth in Race 2 on Sunday. He finished the race in 48 minutes 51.008 seconds or 7.724 seconds adrift from Nicholas Latifi (DAMS) who won the race, according to the official Formula 2 page on Sunday (28/4). The Prema Racing team driver made a good start, racing from the third grid to P1 following Nikita Mazepin (ART Grand Prix) who started from pole position.From there, Sean stayed at the race leader for five laps. However, since the third lap, he felt something wrong with his car so Nicholas Latifi (DAMS) who followed the P2 was able to reduce the distance from 2 seconds to 0.9 seconds. Then when Latifi followed Sean from the outside, there was a collision in the right rear tire, so Sean lost his position and found the balance of his car affected.After the incident, Sean practically fought to stay on the points in the middle of several incidents that occurred. Latifi himself won as a winner and became the first driver of the season to win two races. Until the second series, Sean was ranked 13th in the temporary driver standings with 9 points.

The karate championship between Asian U-21 countries and Cadet Putri, which took place in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah State, Malaysia, ended with placing Indonesia at number 11 medal acquisition. The Consul for Information, Social and Culture of the Indonesian Consulate General of Kota Kinabalu, Cahyono Rustam on Monday explained that the karate championship which took place April 26-28 2019 was attended by 23 countries.Japan ranked first with 16 gold medals, seven silver and six bronze. The second rank is occupied by Kazakhstan with four gold medals, eight silver medals and five bronze medals. The third rank is occupied by Saudi Arabia with four gold, one silver and five bronze. While the Indonesian contingent occupies 11th place with three silver and nine bronze.Cahyono revealed, Indonesia managed to place three karateka in the final but failed to get a gold medal. They are Ocneil Juandi Simarmata in the category of Kata Cadet Putra, Trie Riantika in Kumite U-21 women's 55 kg category and Nicky in the category of KumiteU-2 women's 61 kg.At this 18th Asian Karate Championship in Kota Kinabalu, Indonesia sent 35 athletes in all categories. But most have not won a medal because they are not burdened with achievement targets.

Two North Sulawesi pencak silat athletes gained medals at the Belgium Open Championship at Schoten Belgium, April 24-28 2019.Head of North Sulawesi Youth and Sports Service, Marchel Sendoh, in Manado, Monday said that the athletes are Hidayat Limonu and Abdul Malik.At the championship, Hidayat won the gold medal in class C 55-60 kg, while Abdul Malik won a silver medal in class B 50 - 55 kg. Marchel said that the athletes are currently being prepared at the National Training Center to strengthen the National Team at the SEA Games.In the championship in Belgium, the Indonesian team won eight gold medals, four silvers and three bronze. The 2019 Belgium Open Championship event in Belgium is a venue for Indonesian team trials to face the 2019 SEA Games.