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If someday you can visit Indonesia again, please visit Gorontalo province. This province with nickname Veranda of Medina has a religious tourism destination called the Buboho tourism village.This tourism village with 10 kilometers away from the downtown has a religious tourism based on nature. It is located in Bongo village, Batudaa Pantai subdistrict.

This tourism village has various tourism attractions. One of them is the natural boarding school. There are students who study the science of Islam. Inside the natural boarding school, there is a typical view of Buboho, namely the rows of Wambohe or Gorontalo's typical huts. Next, there are wooden buildings that have the same type of Toyopo or a container for storing cakes when the Bungo community commemorates the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad SAW. In addition, this village is also a place to learn the history of the Gorontalo Kingdom. In this village, you can find Maa Taduwolo, a place that stores various sources related to the Gorontalo Kingdom. In Buboho village, you can see a collection of wooden fossils neatly lined up on the ground in front of the entrance.

When you visit Buboho village, you can also visit other tourism attractions, such as Dulanga beach, Gold Walima Bubohu Mosque, Nature Karst Museum, and Wooden Fossil Nature Museum. If you want to visit Gold Walima Mosque, you can go up to the top of the hill. It was built in 2008 and the dome is made from gold. From the mosque, you can see the amazing scenery of Tomini bay.

Another village attraction is Walima Parade that is usually held to celebrate the Prophet's Birthday. In general, Walima is held in the nearest mosques and it starts with Dzikr all night long. When visiting Buboho, don’t forget to taste its typical culinary, you can try Kolombengi cake, Sukade cake, Ancestors powder (bubuk leluhur), ancestors salad (lalapan leluhur), and wheel cake (kue roda). For gifts, you can buy the local people’s crafts. There is Karawo, the Gorontalo’s traditional cloth that is made manually. It has a high value of art, because it is made with the process of difficult embroidering and the motifs are also varied.

Indonesian businesspeople has made a palm shell transaction potential for export to Japan with value US$12 million year on year. This was the result of a business meeting between Indonesian palm shell businesspeople and Japanese biomass industry businesspeople in Pekanbaru, Riau recently. That was stated by Director General of the Trade Ministry's National Export Development, Didi Sumedi in a statement released on Saturday (27/11).

The business meeting was facilitated by the Indonesian Trade Ministry along with Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) and Palm Shell Businessmen Association (APCASI).

In the statement, Didi Sumedi said that to maintain the trade balance surplus, the government keeps developing export-potential products and commodities with high demand and sales value in the global market. One of them is the palm shell.

Currently, Japan is the biggest market for palm shells and predicted to stay as the main market. That was because of Japan's energy policy about 24% of the energy supply in Japan by 2030 must be renewable.

Meanwhile, Director of  Export Development Cooperation at the Trade Ministry, Marolop Nainggolan said that his side will keep encouraging the palm shell export growth to Japan through cooperation with various stakeholders. He further explained that the ministry and JETRO attempt to maintain and increase palm shell export to Japan. The cooperation among many was the one-on-one business matching.

Marolop added that his side invited buyers to see directly the warehouse and processing factory so that they are more convinced with Indonesian palm shell quality.

The world's palm shell production mostly comes from Indonesia. Indonesian palm shell product export in January-September 2021 reached US$286 million or increasing 27.01 percent compared to the same period in 2020.

The main export destination is Japan with 84.5 percent of the total Indonesian palm shell export, followed by Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, and India. Indonesian palm shell supply comes from Jambi, Riau, West Sumatera, Central Kalimantan, and North Sumatera.

Two young people from Malang, East Java, Tubagus and Ashab create a technology-based livestock startup called ‘ChikIn Indonesia’. This startup is to make it easier for farmers to control the climate of the chicken coop through applications on smartphones and provide direct data digitally. They started a business during college and met in the young entrepreneurial community of Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, East Java. Previously, Tubagus is in the food business, coffee shops, plastic and yarn recycling. While Ashab is a man who graduated from the ranch department, and he brings his knowledge in improving ranch efficiency.

Then, they established a joint business partnership in the ranch field. As entrepreneurs, both of them identify the problems that exist in chicken farms in Indonesia. After four years of running a conventional chicken coop business, both of them faced many problems in the production of close house chicken coops, including low meat growth ratio, high mortality rate, and wasted electricity. These series of problems affect the chicken farm business which has a small margin for farmers. As a solution, they finally took advantage of Internet of Things (IoT) technology. Ahmad as ChikIn Indonesia's Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is the figure behind the development of digital infrastructure and IoT devices in the company. He said that running a ranch business requires comprehensive data on chicken needs, such as the amount of feed, temperature, humidity, and electricity consumption. The data is provided to farmers and cage owners so that they can run their business more efficiently.

ChikIn Indonesia develops hardware in the chicken coop that is integrated with software used via smartphones to make it easier for farmers to control data and control the temperature and humidity of the hencoop according to the needs of the chickens. In addition, AI ChickIn's artificial intelligence technology is also able to recognize the climate needs of chickens according to the age and size of the chickens. ChikIn claims that the benefit of using ChickIn's Smart Farm technology is that farmers who use IoT save an average of up to Rp 3,000 per chicken for feed efficiency and Rp 1,000 per chicken for cost reduction.

On November 26, 2021, more than 80 policy makers, practitioners, experts and scholars from think-tanks and universities, as well as business players from Vietnam and Indonesia gathered to discuss the development of maritime cooperation of both countries and identify potential collaborations in the future. The Roundtable Discussion with the theme “Building Indonesia-Vietnam Maritime Partnership”, which was virtually held in the new Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV) building in Hanoi was held in collaboration with the Indonesian Embassy in Hanoi, DAV and the Center for Sustainable Ocean Policy – University of Indonesia. In his opening speech, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, Mahendra Siregar, as reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday (30/11) emphasized the importance of the relationship between the two countries as the two major countries in Southeast Asia, which represent 45 percent of the ASEAN economy. Indonesia and Vietnam both strive to become strong and prosperous sea-based countries. Meanwhile, Vietnam's Deputy Foreign Minister, Vu Quang Minh in his opening speech emphasized that strengthening the Vietnam-Indonesia strategic partnership is very important for the economic development of each country and for the maintenance of regional peace, stability and prosperity. Vietnam and Indonesia also need to make economic cooperation a driving force in realizing the common goal of overcoming the pandemic and restoring the economy. Deputy Minister Minh also reiterated that maritime cooperation can be developed into one of the main areas of Vietnam and Indonesia's strategic partnership. The close institutional relationship between the Indonesian Maritime Security Agency and the Vietnam Coast Guard is a real example of the strong commitment of the two countries in realizing this mission. In 2021, in the maritime sector, both Indonesia and Vietnam are blessed with abundant marine natural resources. Therefore, both countries must collaborate more closely in ensuring sustainable capture fisheries production from an environmental, economic and social perspective.