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The Organizing Committee of the Asian Games 2018 (INASGOC) will involve more than 30 thousand personnel in four regional police -Polda in organizing the Asian Games in August 2018. The number of personnel to be deployed is in accordance with security needs, including security of arena and non arena -like athletes accomodation, hotels and traffic on the highway. Representative of Deputy IV INASGOC Police High Commissioner, Unggul Sedyantoro in Jakarta, Tuesday 12 January, said that the four regional police to be involved in securing the Asian Games in August are Polda Metro Jaya, South Sumatra Police, West Java Police and Banten Polda. In addition to INASGOC police personnel, there are the personnel of the Army, Navy and Air Force Women's Corps that are cooperating with the Indonesian National Military-TNI Headquarters related to the security of the Asian Games. Meanwhile,  INASGOC is optimistic that the traffic management that they plan to run will be successful and it becomes a solution to congestion on one of the main issues during the Asian Games in August. INASGOC has revealed that it has devised various ways to solve traffic problems in Jakarta during the multi-sports Asian Games event held from August 18-September 2, 2018. First, it will close the closest parts of four roads  encircling  the Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) area to minimize the vehicles entering the area, as well as being used as a shuttle path that goes round the area. Second, impose several corridors of TransJakarta bus lanes, as "Asian Games lines" that can be entered by vehicles that are the mode of transportation of the performance, for the mode that drives the athlete from and to the arena of the match. Third, toll road sterilization from athletes 'and officials' quarters during the 2018 Asian Games to the arena or vice versa while escorting and picking up the Asian Games contingent. Fourth is to encourage the public and the committee to use more public transportation during the 2018 Asian Games event. 

Jogja Air Show (JAS) was officially opened on 17 and 18 February 2018 and it won the enthusiasm of tourists since the first day. Air Force Commander (Danlanud) Adisutjipto Marsma TNI, Novyan Samyoga in Yogyakarta said that at this event, there was a paramotor record breaking followed by 56 paramotor aviators. Other interesting aerospace attractions included The Jupiters, Gantole, Paragliding, trike, aeromodelling and fix wing. Jogja Air Show 2018 was held at Depok Beach, Parangtritis, Watu Gupit, Parangkusumo. The record-breaking of the paramotorswas done at 2 points of departure. At the first point in Parangtritis, there were about 25 paramotors, while at the second point in Parangkusumo, there were about 25-30 paramotors. These paramotor participants came from various regions in Indonesia such as Aceh, Makassar and other regions.

Regional governments in East Priangan region, including Garut, Tasikmalaya, Ciamis, Banjar, and Pangandaran agreed to collaborate on designing and promoting tour packages. However, the concept of a collaborative tour package is still in the planning stage by each local government. Tasikmalaya Mayor Budi Budiman said, the design and concept of collaborative tourism that will be launched is still developing. Through the tour package, each region in East Priangan can participate to get the results. Budi Budiman in Tasikmalaya Saturday (17/2) said that each region explores the various attractions that can be sold and integrated. He is optimistic this plan can be realized because East Priangan has an abundance of potential tourist attractions such as Cipanas in Garut, Cipatujah, Pangandaran, and many other natural attractions. As a first step, Budi claimed to have collected about 40 travel agents who will be invited to work together. These travel agents can be the forerunners in finding local and foreign tourists, who will visit East Priangan.

Let’s end Mosaic of the Archipelago with information about Districts / Cities in Aceh Must Strengthen Aceh's Privileges. The province of Aceh has some privilegesin organizing its government, whether it is in religious life, the administration of indigenous life, the provision of education and the role of ulama or Islamic scholars in determining regional policy. Therefore, Regional Heads in the province must be able to ensure the privileges contained in the Law Number 44 on the Implementation of the Province of Aceh Special Region. Former Vice Regent of Central Aceh of 2007-2012 period, Djauhar, Ali to RRI Takengon, on Saturday (17/2/2018) said that with the age that has reached 441 years, the Aceh government, especially in Central Aceh should be able to make the privileges owned by Aceh established.The Law regulates the implementation of Aceh privileges, such as the implementation of religious life embodied with the implementation of Islamic law and the establishment of Religious Institutions, namely the Office of Islamic Sharia. Furthermore, the implementation of customary life, is manifested by establishing various policies in the empowerment, conservation and development and also establishment of customary institutions. Then, the implementation of education is realized according to the system of National education, and with local content added in accordance with Islamic Shari'a. While the role of ulama in determining the policy is realized by forming a body consists of Islamic scholars and is independent, functioning to give consideration to the regional policy, including government, development, society and Islamic economics.

Indonesian government has hosted a Side Event on Promoting Innovative Measures to Address Capacity Gaps in UN Peacekeeping Mission (MPP) on 14 February 2018 on the sidelines of the C-34 (Peacekeeping Operations) Sessions. It presented, such as Atul Khare, United Nations Under-Secretary-General (USG) for Field Support, as the keynote speaker. Chargé d'Affaires/Indonesian Permanent Council to UN in New York, Ambassador Ina Krisnamurthi who acted as moderator. The panel discussion was also attended by several panelists, namely Ms. Anne Marie van den Berg (Director of the UN Logistic Support Division), Colonel Aldrin Petrus Mongan (Deputy Commander of the Center for Peacekeeping Care); Yayat Ruyat (Head of Development Division, PT PINDAD (Persero). It underlined the success of the Indonesian Contingent in carrying out the tasks mandated by the UN Peacekeeping using strategic industrial products. Atul Kare disclosed, facing the current challenges the UN Peacekeeping Mission needs innovation and capacity building to be able to carry out the tasks in the field, and currently the United Nations together with the Contributor States needs to continue to improve their cooperation under the bilateral and trilateral framework, and to successfully optimize the use of national strategic industrial products by the Garuda Contingent in the UN Peacekeeping Mission in accordance with the mandate of the Vision 4,000 Peacekeepers Roadmap 2015-2019.Furthermore, the Panel also discussed concrete ways to strengthen the capacity of UN Peacekeeping Mission, including through alternative procurement and innovative equipment financing for TPCC's. The meeting was attended by 115 participants comprising representatives from countries attending the first week of the C-34 session.

A lot of Indonesians are currently studying abroad. However, not many Indonesian students know that Turkey can also be the main choice to continue their study. Moreover, the cost of education in a number of universities in Turkey is very cheap. One of the Indonesian students who studied in Turkey, Muhammad Al Fatih (20) for example, when interviewed by Republika.co.id in Jakarta, Saturday (17/2) said, many still do not know that the lectures in Turkey are inexpensive, especially in the state campuses. Therefore, according to him, Indonesian-Turkish Education Foundation is currently conducting socializations to Indonesian students.

A total of 37 Indonesian Young Diplomats will participate in live-in (Nyantri) program in Pesantren or Islamic Boarding school, Pondok Modern Gontor. They said they are ready to support the new program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Education and Training Centerbefore entering the madya or senior education level of the Foreign Service Staff School –Sesdilu. They are expected to absorb knowledge about the world of pesantren and at the same time share knowledge and experience with students there. Head of Pondok Modern Gontor, Ponorogo East Java, KH Hasan Abdullah Sahal Wednesday (14/2) said, the young diplomats will know Pesantren better and this can be a provision in Islam diplomacy of Indonesia. Meanwhile, Rector of Darussalam University, Prof. Dr. Amal Fathullah Zarkasyi accompanied by Vice Rector, Dr. Hamid Fahmy immediately requested that the concept of the activity be immediately made concrete. In addition to the need to arrange meetings with board leaders, the diplomats will also fill various classes at the University to share experiences on practical diplomacy, such as simulations of international conferences , public speaking, and discussing regional and multilateral issues. The "Diplomat Nyantri" program will be held in April for 3 days. According to Director of Sesdilu, M Aji Surya, during the nyantri in the cottage, the diplomats are expected to understand Islam and pesantren as part of the Indonesian nation. In fact, it is targeted that they are to share about Indonesian diplomacy with more than 3,500 Islamic borading school students.

Rice is the staple food of most Indonesians. Therefore, the availability and quality of rice become very important. In general, clean and fragrant white rice is categorized as high quality rice. However, people should be careful and sure of the use of chemicals as rice bleach. The use of rice bleach is certainly not good and harmful to health. To know the existence of bleach in rice, two students of Sebelas Maret University (UNS) Surakarta have created a tool called SCRAPER, orthe Smart Chlorinated Rice Portable Detector based on microcontrol Atmega8535 and Light Dependent Resistor (LDR). They are Intan Mulia Rahayu from Food Science and Technology Studies Faculty of Agriculture and Kevin Ikhwan Muhammad (Chemical Engineering). According to Intan, using chlorine as bleaching agent is very dangerous for health. Chlorine can damage blood cells, disrupt liver function, and damage the respiratory system. When using chlorine reaching 3-5 ppm in rice or even reaching a dose of more than 30 ppm, it can cause death. SCRAPER appears to address market issues about the rampant unscrupulous sellers of rice that deliberately add bleach / chlorine to low quality of rice. With chlorine, the rice looks clean,and white like,the super quality but most consumers cannot distinguish rice that contains bleach or not. This innovation was featured at the Thailand International Inventors Day 2018 International Innovation Competition held at Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Center (BITEC), Thailand from 2-6 February 2018. Both students also won a special award from the World Invention Intellectual Property Association (WIIPA). Intan, who is chairwoman of the research team, said that her side hopes that this innovation tool can be useful for the community in a bid to prevent the consumption of unhealthy rice, and can assist the government in the inspection of rice sellers in the market. The competition was organized by the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) with the International Federation of Inventor's Associations (IFIA) and the World Invention Intellectual Property Association (WIIPA). The Thailand Inventors Day is held annually to showcase the potential of innovation and discoveries from international innovators. The event was attended by 24 countries, including Indonesia, Canada, China, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Iran and Japan.