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The 5th Responsible Business Forum on Food and Agriculture is being held in Jakarta on March 27 and 28, 2018. The forum is organized by Indonesia Business Council for Sustainable Development (IBCSD), Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and PIS Agro. President of the Council, Shinta Kamdani explained, the background of this forum, is to make Indonesia achieve the targets which has been set in Sustainable Development, especially in the field of food and agriculture, namely the eradication of hunger and sustainable agriculture. In the forum, delegates from domestic and foreign businessmen discuss about sustainable food and agriculture not only from the economic aspect but also from the social and environmental aspects. This forum will produce multiple targets.

“Firstly, how about various stakeholders improve cooperation in the framework of SDG, so not only food and agriculture but SDG as a whole. Secondly how can we communicate the importance of trust and transparency in leading sustainable business,” Shinta Kamdani said.

Shinta Kamdani further explained that he hoped that through this forum will also concern on the role of women in agriculture. In addition, the business sector is expected to further enhance a healthy lifestyle. This forum will continue with many working groups that are constantly monitored. Large entrepreneurs can help small and micro entrepreneurs to practice social and environmental businesses. (VOI/SEKAR/NT)

Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla opened the National Coordination Meeting of Library in Jakarta on Monday (26/3). On the occasion, Vice President Jusuf Kalla also launched the Digital library of Indonesian Vice President. In his speech, Jusuf Kalla said that the meeting becomes a mutual step to improve reading habit of Indonesian people, along with the development of digital technology.

“In this opportunity, the National Coordination Meeting, not only offer the book, but how to read the digital book. Currently the world has changed rapidly. Because the speed and knowledge cannot be separated from digitalization,” Jusuf Kalla said.

Vice President Jusuf Kalla asked the National Library to increase socialization widely, especially in the digital era. This is followed by the digital library capacity that has not been utilized yet by the community. The socialization is needed to increase people’s reading interest through digital library. In the meeting, Vice President Jusuf Kalla also launched Digital library of Indonesian Vice President namely ‘Wapres Library’ and can be accessed through Play Store Android. (KBRN/Rizki/Trs.yati /NT)

Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Arcandra Tahar said Indonesia`s proven oil reserves at present are recorded at around 3.3 billion barrels. Based on data collected by ANTARA from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources here on Monday with constant assumption of 800,000 barrels a day Indonesia would no longer be an oil producer in the next 11 to 12 years unless new reserves are discovered.

"Perhaps it may not happen in the next 11 or 12 years as production will keep dropping. Next year it will drop to 700,000 barrels a day and so on," he said.

Technological and new reserve factors are key to sustaining oil production in Indonesia, Arcandra said. He said oil exploitation technology at present is only able to take 40 to 50 percent of reserves. "There has so far been any technology that could do more. If our later generation could find the technology we could produce more than that. With regard to gas, the situation is better as we still have reserves for up to the next 25 to 50 years," he said.

Arcandra said the proven oil reserves in Indonesia were not abundant. Compared to the world`s proven reserves they make up only 0.2 percent while Indonesia`s Reserve Replacement Ration is also considered still low, he added.

"We are still able to achieve 50 percent reserve replacement ration. That is about how much we can take from reserves we have found. We take twice more than we discover while RRR in our neighboring countries have been above 100 percent," he said.

Indonesia promoted Asian Games 2018 tour packages during the Natas Travel Fair held in Singapore from March 23-25, 2018.

The tour packages were offered to Singaporeans to visit Indonesia during the Asian Games 2018 to be held in Jakarta and Palembang, capital of South Sumatra province, from Aug 18 to Sept 2, the deputy I for marketing at the Tourism Ministry, I Gde Pitana said here on Sunday.

In total, 151 tour packages were offered during the fair. Nearly 70 percent of them are related to tourist objects found near the venues of the pan Asian multi-sport event in Palembang, Jakarta, West Java and Banten, he said.

He expressed hope the tour packages which include the best spots for social media photos or instagram stories, culinary adventure, tea plantation, cave and Sembilang National Park will serve as special attractions for tourists to visit Indonesia.

During the fair, Indonesia specifically raised tourist destinations in Bali and Riau Islands as the main theme and Phinisi boat as a focus of interest.

The National Association of Travel Agents Singapore (Natas) travel fair is an international scale tourist mart held annually in March and August. Nearly 65,000 to 70,000 people are expected to visit the travel fair this year.

As many as 87 local and foreign exhibitors took part in the three-day fair. The foreign exhibitors came from China, Japan, Europe, Mauritius, Ethiopia, Hawaii, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Fiji, New Zealand, and Uzbekistan, among others.

Singapore is one of the main markets for Indonesian tourism.

A total of 1,512,813 Singapore tourists visited Indonesia last year, up 2.72 percent compared to a year earlier.

Indonesia has set itself the target of attracting 1.7 million Singapore tourists this year. (ANTARA)