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The pamflet of the concert in Jakarta. (Photo : Erasmus Huis) - 

VOInews, Jakarta : The Netherlands’ National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NJJO) and Maite Hontelé present a global fusion of jazz and Latin music as they tour in Indonesia this month. Organized by the Netherlands’ cultural center Erasmus Huis, Maite Hontelé’s NJJO Goes Mambo are performing at Erasmus Huis Jakarta on November 8, 2024, SMK Negeri 8 Surakarta on November 12, 2024 and Ngayogjazz Yogyakarta on November 16.

In Jakarta, they will also give a special extra Latin night performance on November 9, 2024, with a changing ensemble playing a wide variety of Latin grooves from salsa classics to moving ballads, specially curated for the Indonesian audience.

According to a release received by Voice of Indonesia on Thursday, November 7th 2024, the NJJO, a dynamic ensemble of 20 exceptional young jazz talents from the Netherlands, is currently under the artistic direction of the renowned trumpeter and bandleader, Maite Hontelé.

This unique orchestra provides a platform for young musicians from diverse cultural and musical backgrounds to collaborate, learn and grow.

“Erasmus Huis is proud to bring these young talents of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra to Indonesia. This tour offers a unique opportunity for young Dutch musicians to showcase their skills on the international stage, fostering cultural exchange and inspiring future generations. Through collaborations with renowned musicians like Maite Hontelé, the NJJO demonstrates the power of music to unite people from diverse backgrounds and create unforgettable experiences,” said Erasmus Huis Director Nicolaas de Regt.

Maite Hontelé’s influence on the NJJO is very prominent. Her extensive experience in Colombia, where she released five acclaimed albums and performed extensively, has shaped her distinctive musical style. The fusion of jazz and Latin American music is evident in the orchestra’s performances, creating vibrant and energetic sounds. “Mambo is the force of Latin and jazz together in one band.

There is a world of mambo variants and new contemporary crossovers, and varying Latin grooves and jazz improvisations work perfectly. Mambo provides a wide range of options, both for NJJO and the public. Depth and cheerful dancing guaranteed!" said Maite Hontelé//VOI

The Culture Heritage Young Talent Fest 2024. (Photo : BRIN) - 

VOInews, Purwokerto : BRIN collaborates with General Soedirman University (Unsoed) held the Culture Heritage Young Talent Fest 2024 on Tuesday (5/11). this activity held to inspire lecturers and students who have an interest in the field archeology and cultural research. BRIN invites them to play an active rolecollaborating with BRIN researchers to enrich insight, experience and their skills. 

Unsoed Chancellor Akhmad Sodiq in his speech explained that it is possible compete and face challenges in this century, students must know and master the High Order Thinking Style (HOTS).

“Students must always be think critically and be able to present solutions to every problem, improve creativity and innovation, hone communication and collaboration skills” said Akhmad.

Meanwhile Deputy for Human Resources for Science and Technology (SDMI) BRIN Edy Giri Rachman Putra explained material related to strengthening Indonesia's research and innovation ecosystem through research and innovation talent management.

In his presentation, Edy said that Indonesia is an archipelagic country The largest in the world has levels of bio-diversity, geo-diversity and cultural-diversity the high one.

"This is the basis of our research at BRIN, how to manage it biological riches to be used for research in food, health, energy, marine, defense and many more," said Edy.

This will not be possible occurs without collaboration with various parties, including lecturers and students. 

According to a release received by Voice of Indonesia on Thursday, November 7th 2024, Edy also conveyed the management's grand design national talent towards a Golden Indonesia 2045. According to him, there will be three focuses fields, namely research and innovation talent under BRIN, arts and culture talent under under the Ministry of Culture, as well as sports talents under the Ministry Youth and Sports.

Regarding BRIN's role in cultural heritage research, Head of Organization Archaeological Research on Language and Literature (Arbastra) Herry Yogaswara conveyed that OR Arbastra's duties are to carry out observations, surveys, excavations, preservation, conservation, assistance and evaluation in the fields of archaeology, language and literature. 

Regarding the research collaboration platform, Herry explained that BRIN has a scheme Research and Innovation for Advanced Indonesia (RIIM) Excavations like the one he and the team did in Bumiayu//VOI

National Peer Learning Meeting in 2024 held by National Library in Bali. (Photo : Perpusnas) - 

VOInews, Bali : The National Library of the Republic of Indonesia (Perpusnas RI) is holding a National Peer Learning Meeting in 2024. The event will last for three days, from 6 to 8 November 2024, taking place in Bali.

Indonesia's challenges in the future will be faced with the complexity of global development and change. Therefore, Indonesia's development concept will depend on economic growth supported by human capital skills.

The Indonesian nation will experience the peak of the demographic bonus in 2045. The demographic bonus is a condition where the productive age population is greater than the non-productive age population. This condition really must be maximized to avoid a spike in unemployment and low community productivity.

“Currently we need to design the demographic bonus as a big benefit. "And the existence of libraries clearly has a very strong correlation in building human capital," said Deputy for Library Resource Development Adin Bondar when opening the National Peer Learning Meeting in Sanur, Bali, Thursday (7/11/2024).

The library is an educational instrument for everyone. Its existence, apart from providing knowledge and information services to readers, increasing the love of reading, must also have a significant impact on reconstructing human resources based on reading behavior so as to help create a literate society.

"A literate society is a society that is knowledgeable, innovative and creative," added Adin.

In 2016, the World Economic Forum (Word Economy Forum) warned long ago that a period of disruption would occur. The development of technology and communication has resulted in many jobs being taken over by automation and machines. This means that human existence begins to be reduced.

So, this is where interpersonal and analytical skills become important. Humans should not only understand knowledge but also analyze, evaluate, and even create new ideas.

The National Library is grateful that the initiation of the Social Inclusion Based Library Transformation (TPBIS) program has so far received appreciation from many parties because it has been proven to provide social and welfare impacts. In fact, in several regions, the TPBIS program has been replicated. They believe that TPBIS can be a strategic instrument in controlling inflation, reducing poverty and stunting.

"The occurrence of extreme poverty and stunting is due to poverty of information and knowledge so that people do not have skills and creativity," added Adin

In the international arena, the TPBIS program has also received a positive response. A number of countries at the Colombo Plan forum in August 2024 specifically visited and learned directly about good practices from TPBIS.

Currently, the National Library continues to encourage improvements in the quality of library services by building reading rooms as study spaces and developing 10 thousand village/district libraries and community reading parks through the assistance of quality reading materials.

Expansion of library services was also carried out by targeting mobile library fleets, building digital reading corners (Pocadi), and reading points that can be accessed online (QR Code) containing reading material sources for various subjects, as well as strengthening the TPBIS model.

Previously, the Head of the Center for Public and Special Library Development, Nani Suryani, said that the National Library had previously held similar meetings at the regional level online involving 600 village/sub-district libraries receiving TPBIS 2024 benefits from 143 districts/cities and 34 provinces, as well as Expert Trainers.

"Today is the peak activity where partners are invited to share stories, strategies and good practices, as well as broader insights from the material presenters," explained Nani.

At this peak moment, no less than 700 participants had the opportunity to attend directly representing institutions/groups from districts/cities in each province. The remaining thousands of participants took part online.

A number of sources involved include the Director of Religion, Education and Culture of the Ministry of National Development Planning/Bappenas Didik Darmanto, University of Indonesia Sociologist Paulus Wirutomo, Philosophy Lecturer at STF Driyarkara Jakarta Agustinus Setyo Wibowo, Head of the Purwakarta Regency Archives and Library Service Asep Supriatna, Agus Munawar Literacy activist , Program Assistant Team Leader Erlyn Sulistyaningsih, and MSME practitioners.

It is hoped that the National Peer Learning Meeting activities can become a forum for generating new ideas, good practice activities that can be carried out collaboratively and be more adaptive in facing global changes//VOI

This photo taken on Oct. 30 shows Yili Innovation Center Europe expert Gerrit Smit (left) introducing products to participants of the Global Water Beverage Congress 2024 held in Frankfurt, Germany. (ANTARA/Xinhua/Du Zheyu)