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World Hepatitis Day is celebrated every July 28th. The disease caused by inflammation or swelling of the liver has become an international concern to be addressed. A Consultant Gastroenterology Hepatology or Persahabatan General Hospital, Doctor David Reinhard in a special interview with RRI World Service Voice of Indonesia in Jakarta Friday said the Indonesian government is also paying full attention to reducing and even eliminating hepatitis.

“I think all efforts must be deployed and we must always be optimistic, how should we do to achieve the target of hepatitis free in 2020. Indeed everything will be gradually done. The movement started from 2017, there is always a target every year. So if in 2017 the target was 30 percent, in 2018 the target is 60 percent, in 2019 we target 90 percents and is expected the hepatitis will be eliminated in 2020, said dr. David Reinhard.

David Reinhard also said to continue to prevent the transmission of hepatitis, the Indonesian government should increase the coverage of immunization for infants. He said the immunization program for infants from hepatitis disease has been a government program since 1997 until today. David asked the government to continue focusing and raising awareness so as hepatitis can be prevented and cured. (VOI/AF/AHM)

Indonesian Ministry of Transportation on Friday, July 27, 2018 in Jakarta signed a contract for the construction of Package 1 Patimban Port, Subang, West Java with a number of consortiums that won the tender in the project. The consortium that won the tender in the project is Penta Ocean, TOA, and Rinkai from Japan and PT Wijaya Karya (Persero) and PT PP (Persero) from Indonesia. Package 1 includes the construction of container terminals and vehicle terminals and supervision from the Indonesian Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) with 6 trillion rupiah contract value of a total of 8.9 trillion rupiahs with a duration of 12 months. Minister of Transportation, Budi Karya Sumadi in his press statement after the signing of the contract said that Package 1 is the biggest project of the entire package of Patimban Port development project. He believes that the first phase work of Package 1will be completed in less than 12 months so that the motor vehicle terminal and roll-on-roll off (ro-ro) can be operated in early 2019.

"We are signing a contract for this great job in Patimban. We expect early next month we will start construction and can be done in a few months and In sha Allah early next year we can operate Patimban activities by first operating the car terminal and roll-on-roll off (ro-ro). Patimban is very strategic because the pedestal rather than the industry exist in West Java and Central Java. So with the Patimban, Indonesia, Jakarta or West Java, Central Java has two ports, namely Tanjung Priok and Patimban, "said Budi Karya Sumadi.

Budi also hopes that with the construction of Patimban Port, there will be no more congestion of goods distribution to Jakarta, and create new easiness in logistics connectivity from home and abroad. In addition, the presence of Patimban Port is claimed would support the initiation to make Indonesia as the center of the automotive industry. The construction of Patimban Port will be implemented in three phases. In the first phase, Patimban Port is planned to be able to serve 3.5 Million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) and 600,000 four-wheeled vehicles. In the second phase, the service capacity will increase to 5.5 Million TEUs and increase to 7.5 Million TEUs in the third stage. The Patimban Port project is scheduled to be completed in 2027. (VOI / Rezha / AHM)

The Creative Economy Agency-Bekraf continues to introduce Dangdut to a wider market through a special program “Hello Dangdut at the 2019 Pavilion Archipelageek South by Southwest (SXSW) to be held on March 8-17, 2019. SXSW is the largest creative and technological art festival in the world routinely held in Austin, Texas, the United States of America every year. The previous Hello Dangdut program was successfully realized by Bekraf during an independent music festival (indie) Synchronize 2017 which featured duet rockers: Andi Rif and Dangdut singer Erie Suzan. For the Hello Dangdut program, Bekraf in particular collaborates with Irama Nusantara, an active gathering of music in Indonesia. On Thursday, July 26, 2018 in Jakarta, one of the founders of Irama Nusantara, David Tarigan disclosed that Dangdut music is currently quite popular and has its own place in the hearts of the international community. Therefore, he is trying to introduce Dangdut to the international community with special measures, one of them through SXSW 2019.

“Now, in the global arena, it cannot be denied that the easiest example is a country like Japan where Dangdut is so popular there. So, its difference depends on the place. For example, when we talk South by Southwest, we also talk about North America; talking about the United States would be different from Japan. They have a different approach. So, the study is very important to determine what steps will be taken there. How the genre and performance of Dangdut music are or sometime, there will be a recorded music released there. How to sell and popularize it is very important,” David Tarigan said.

David Tarigan added currently a small part of US community has already been familiar with Dangdut music as original music of Indonesia. However, the percentage is still quite small because it is still less than 10 percent of the total US citizens. The Hello Dangdut program at SXSW 2019 can be an effective way to introduce Dangdut music to the international community because the characteristics of SXSW visitors are people who are very open to new and unique things. SXSW is also known as a festival that always displays the music - alternative music from various countries in the world. (VOI/Rezha/RHM)

President Director of Persahabatan General Hospital, Mohammad Ali Toha, hopes that the success of Indonesian doctor team in running Megaprosthesis Reconstruction Operation in Indonesia can serve as a world model for healing patients with similar symptoms. Mohammad Ali Toha in a special interview with Voice of Indonesia in Jakarta on Wednesday (25/7) explained, a team of doctors led by dr. Sigit Daru Cahayadi has successfully performed the first limb rescue operation in the world. The surgery was done to cure 15 year-old patient who suffers from malignant bone cancer.

“This is one of our ways to show what we can do for Indonesia. It means for Indonesia that at the time there is the courage to start doing that. The Board of Directors also supports this operation, giving benefit to outside doctors to watch and see the work process. So they can also develop later someday in other places,” said Mohammad Ali Toha..

Meanwhile, Sigit Daru Cahayadi, explained that this operation involves a number of specialist doctors from the Clinicopathology conference. According to him, the specialists are from various skills, including Orthopedics, Radiology, Anatomy Pathology, Pediatric Consultant Hematology-Oncology, and Radiotherapy, in determining the course of therapy which is appropriate for patients with bone malignancy. The Indonesian doctor team at Persahabatan General Hospital, Jakarta, on Wednesday (18/7) has successfully performed surgery without amputation on Osteosarcoma or bone cancer patient. This surgery is an act of rescuing limb as well as installing artificial bone in the patient (VOI/Ndy/AHM)