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Proud news came from Nila Eleora Putri Sianturi, a student of SMAN (State Senior High School) 68 Jakarta won a gold medal for the best female poster category at the "21st International High Schools Arts Festival" (IHSAF), which was held in Tokyo, Japan from 5 to until 16 August 2020. The announcement was made directly by Haruhisa Handa, Chair of the International Foundation for Arts and Culture (IFAC). Competition and festival were held without the participants directly attending, considering that the event is still in the period of the global Covid-19 epidemic. The participants, who took part in the IFAC competition, had to pass a selection process from their respective countries. Nila Eleora Putri Sianturi is a gold medalist at the 2019 National Student Arts Festival and Competition (FLS2N) organized by the Ministry of Education and Culture.

Nila’s poster has a theme “Don’t Let Them Lay on the Streets for Too Long”.  In this theme, Nila highlighted the biggest problem in society, namely street children, and children who are poor and homeless.She added that children often become victims of abuse and exploitation. According to Nila, street children need attention not only from the government, but also from all parties. They need sympathy and deserve it but many people still don't care and ignore them.

Acting Head of the National Achievement Center at the Ministry of Education and Culture, Asep Sukmayadi said that IFAC activities should be viewed as a valuable opportunity not only to strengthen friendly relations, expand networks, but also to advance global cooperation in the development, quality and sustainable world arts and culture.

The festival, which was organized by IFAC, was participated in by 18 countries for the category of posters and paintings. Apart from these categories, there are also categories for Japanese art and culture. In the poster and painting category, each country sends a maximum of four nominations for the best work to IFAC and then one winner from each country is selected to attend the award ceremony. The four nominees for the best work that were sent are the winners of the 2019 National Student Art Festival and Competition (FLS2N) held in Bandar Lampung City, Lampung Province in the field of male and female category posters.