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Indonesia and Australia's Air force pose in front of F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft -

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) will be deploying six F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft to Indonesia for the first time, as part of Exercise Elang AUSINDO 23.

Held at Manado in North Sulawesi from 18 to 28 September 23, Exercise Elang AUSINDO 23 involves 150 RAAF personnel training alongside 160 Indonesian personnel. The Indonesian Air Force will deploy F-16 fighter aircraft for the air combat mission.

Air Vice-Marshal Glen Braz, Air Commander Australia, said the exercise marks the first time Australia has deployed the F-35A to Indonesia.

“Exercise Elang AUSINDO is a regular combined training activity to increase our capacity to work together,” Air Vice-Marshal Braz said.

“Through this exercise we can build mutual cooperation, trust and understanding, both at the aviator-level and more broadly between the Australian Defence Force and Indonesian National Armed Forces.

“We are fully committed to a strong bilateral partnership with Indonesia; this important exercise allows our air forces to develop deeper relationships and enhance cooperation.”

According to a release received by Voice of Indonesia on Monday, the Exercise Elang AUSINDO 23 will see Australian and Indonesian personnel plan and execute air combat exercise missions including offensive and defensive counter air missions; basic fighter manoeuvres and air combat manoeuvres and air-to-air refuelling with a RAAF KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport.

First held in 1993, Exercise Elang AUISINDO is part of a series of air cooperation exercises with Indonesia that includes Albatross AUSINDO (for maritime surveillance) and Rajawali AUSINDO (for tactical airlift)//VOI

A talkshow on increasing literation index to prosperous community in Tebo Regency, Jambi Province - 

Through the National Library's special allocation funds (DAK), the people of Tebo Regency can enjoy new, cool, comfortable library service facilities, with a more diverse reading collection.

Tebo Regency Regional Secretary Teguh Arhadi expressed his gratitude and gratitude for the new face of the library building in his area.

"By reading, we know a lot of information from all over the world. Even though nowadays human habits have been replaced by technology. For libraries, this is a challenge that must be answered," said Teguh, starting the series of inaugurations of the expansion of Tebo Regency library service facilities, Monday (25/9 /2023).

According to Regional Secretary Teguh, the library service must start preparing a schedule to mobilize students to come to the library.

The condition of an intelligent society is the dream of any country. Intelligence is a form of human quality. Therefore, the National Medium Term Development Plan (RPJMN) has been seriously prepared by the government to improve human quality, one of which is through libraries.

"Libraries are partners of educators, parents and the community. People who go to school don't necessarily read, but people who read definitely go to school," explained the Director of the National Library, Muhammad Syarif Bando.

Reading is a guarantee of the birth of innovation and creativity. A number of developed countries have practiced and felt the positive impact of people's habit of reading.

Why is that? Because natural resources are not a guarantee of sustainable development, but quality humans are the answer. People are an expensive asset.

According to a release received by Voice of Indonesia on Monday, the regional governments are advised not to focus on creating work programs that are solely oriented towards budget absorption, but rather programs that has a community empowerment so that the benefits are effective.

"Moreover, Tebo Regency is rich in palm oil and coal which can be processed into various types of economically valuable products with the support of appropriate reading materials," added Bando.

In the talk show session, Deputy for National Library Resource Development, Adin Bondar, explained that the community empowerment program that can be followed and replicated by regions is the transformation of library services based on social inclusion (TPBIS).

"The TPBIS program is in line with the changing library paradigm which is now more open. Exploring the various potentials of individual communities through learning spaces, creativity towards independence," said Adin.

Meanwhile, source from Deputy Chair II of the Tebo Regency DPRD, Syamsu Rizal, said that currently the social media world is busy with the millennial generation.

Even close to each other, some of this generation are starting to use digital as their personal space in accessing, obtaining and sharing all forms of information found on the internet.

However, he suggested that to understand the content of social media messages in this digital era, a shield or filter is needed, namely media literacy.

"Media literacy is a basic skill that a person, including the younger generation, must have when exposed to social media in the digital era," he added.

On the final occasion, Village Head (Datin) Purwo Bakti, Bathin III District, Kab. Bungo, Lenny Maryani, asked the public to change their mindset about libraries. People should not ignore the existence and great benefits of. library.

Lenny, who received an award as inspirational female village head in Indonesia in 2022, emphasized that libraries are now open spaces. Not an ivory tower. But it would be useless no matter how magnificent the library building is if the public doesn't want to come to its benefits.

"Villages must have self-awareness. If they want to build community welfare, they must be supported with funds. The Village Development Budget has approved the use of the budget for libraries," he concluded//VOI

VOINews, Jakarta - The Jakarta Environmental Service recorded a reduction of 86.47 tons of carbon emissions on Saturday (September 23) when the capital city commemorated World Ozone Day by turning off lights in some locations.

"On Saturday, there was carbon emissions (CO2) reduction of 86.47 tons," the Head of the Jakarta Environmental Service (DLH), Asep Kuswanto, said here on Sunday.

Kuswanto noted that the reduction was calculated from the total electricity saving of 102 MWh, where each kilowatt-hour (KwH) of electricity consumption is equal to 0.85 kilograms of CO2 emissions.

The city administration on Saturday turned off lights in 11 locations, including government buildings, roads, some restaurants, hotels, and apartments, from 20.30 to 21.30 local time, to commemorate World Ozone Day.

According to the state-owned electricity company, PT PLN of Jakarta Main Distribution Unit, the move has saved electricity consumption from 205 Megawatt-hour (MWh) to 102 MWh.

With the electricity tariff of Rp1,444.70/KWh, it has saved Rp146.9 thousand in electricity cost, Kuswanto added.

He mentioned that the regional government previously appealed to related parties to turn off lights in government buildings, symbols of the capital city, and roads in order to save electrical energy for one hour on Saturday at 20.30-21.30 local time.

However, lights and electricity at public service buildings such as hospitals and community health centers (puskesmas) still remained to provide service to the community.

"By turning off the lights for 60 minutes, we can help to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We also tried to educate the public to reduce carbon emissions by saving electrical energy and the economy as well," Public Relations Head of the DKI Jakarta Environmental Service, Yogi Ikhwan, said. (Antaranews)

VOINews, Jakarta -  Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) thanked local farmers for their hard work in maintaining domestic rice supplies in the midst of the El Nino phenomenon.

"Thanks to our farmers' hard work, supplies in markets and rice stocks in our warehouses remain sufficient in facing the dry season. Thank you to all farmers in Indonesia," Jokowi said on his Instagram account in Jakarta on Sunday.

He stated that many parts of the world, including Indonesia, are facing the El Nino phenomena which have seriously affected the water supplies and agricultural productivity.

However, amid the threat of this climate pattern, Indonesian agriculture remains productive, Jokowi added.

Speaking after inspecting State Logistics Agency (Bulog's) warehouses two weeks ago, he said that Indonesia's national rice stocks for this month reached a total of two million tons, higher than around 1.2 million tons in normal situations.

At the 2023 National Farmer's Day, President Jokowi posted an image showing various illustrations of agricultural activities in Indonesia, such as farmers harvesting grain and fruit, farmers picking tea shoots, farmers working on rice fields, and the use of advanced technology in the agricultural ecosystem.

The image also includes the phrase Happy National Farmer's Day.

According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology, the National Farmer's Day which is celebrated every September 24, begins with the publication of Basic Agrarian Law on September 24, 1960. Thus, today Indonesia celebrated 63 years of farmers' struggle. (Antaranews)