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Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry represented by expert staff of foreign affairs minister in the field of economic diplomacy has received the visit of Deputy Director General (DDG) for Copyrights and Creative Industry Sector of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Ms. Sylvie Forbin on Thursday (12/4). The visit is a follow-up to the meeting of director general of WIPO in September 2017 with Indonesian vice minister of foreign affairs to discuss role and support of WIPO on strengthening and formulation of intellectual property policy in Indonesia, especially in the field of creative economic industry. In accordance with the instruction of Indonesian president, intellectual property becomes a very important issue for Indonesia, especially to encourage the contribution of creative economy to the economy. Thus, the Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry expressed its plan to organize World Conference on Creative Economy (WCCE) in November in Bali, and asked WIPO to support the event. The plan got a good response from Deputy Director General Sylvie Forbin said her support to WCCE.

The committee of overseas election of Indonesia in Manila becomes the host of socialization and technical guidance of general election 2019, which was attended by 48 participants from 6 Indonesian representatives namely Bangkok, Dili, Singapore, Manila, Davao and Songkhla. The event was attended by the Commissioner of General Election Commission, Pramono Ubait Tanthowi and Secretary General of General Election Commission, Arif Rahman Hakim. During the technical guidance which was held in Manila on April 14 and 15, 2018, the center commission and working group of overseas general election shared knowledge on the basis of law and regulation related to the overseas general election, and also working mechanism and management of the budget of the overseas general election committee to make the general election 2019 (legislative, presidential and vice presidential election) a success. Socialization of general election 2019 was conducted in the Indonesian embassy in Manila on April 14, 2018 and attended by around 200 Indonesian people in Manila and surrounding area. Indonesian Ambassador to the Phillipines  Sinyo Harry Sarundajang welcomed the team and expressed his appreciation the team and the participants.

In line with the Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi’s directions,  Palestine is always in heartbeat of Indonesian diplomacy, and views the importance role of UNESCO in protecting the Old City and Wall of Jerusalem, and the efforts to reconstructand develop Gaza and two sites of cultural heritages in Hebron and Bethlehem. This was affirmed by Ret.LieutenantGeneral Hotmangaraja Pandjaitan, Indonesian ambassador/permanent representative to UNESCO during discussing 25 agendas on Occupied Palestine in the 204th plenary session of executive council of United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization/UNESCO in Paris, (12/4/2018). Ambassador Hotmangaraja asserted that the written heritage in Palestineshould be preserved as world cultural heritage which cannot be separated each other. It is because those sites are not only function as the form of culture or civilization of a particular nation, but a complete description of various human histories. The cultural heritage site which is protected by UNESCO, is two sites in Palestine; Al Haram Al Ibrahim in Al Khalil/Hebron and Bilal Ibn Rabah mosque/ Rachel cemetery in Bethlehem.