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VOINews.id, Jakarta: Indonesian Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Sandiaga Uno met with Dubai investors and entrepreneurs during his visit to the United Arab Emirates on Thursday-Friday (04-05/01/2023). In The Weekly Brief with Sandi Uno event hosted by the ministry on Wednesday (10/01/2024) in Jakarta, Sandi said that Indonesia is still a magnet for Dubai investors to invest their capital in various sectors, including tourism and the creative economy.

This is because Indonesia is considered to have good economics and conveniences provided by the government so far. When meeting with Dubai investors, he also offered the golden visa program and special economic zones for investment in the tourism and creative economy sectors.

"The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy also offers a Golden Visa program and also several special economic zones that have been formed to accommodate investment interest in the tourism and creative economy sectors," Sandiaga said.

Sandiaga further said that Dubai investors are also interested in developing property projects in Indonesia, especially in Indonesia's new capital Nusantara. According to him, the government must move together and collaborate to develop all investment potentials.

During his Middle East visit, Minister Sandiaga met the CEO of Al Zarooni Emirates Investments LLC and Chairman of Citizens School Dubai, Dr. Adil Alzaaroni to discuss investment efforts in the education sector; the Chairman of Ayana Holding, Abdulla Lahej about the latest property industry trends; and the Director General of the Dubai Travelers Festival, Awad bin Mohammad bin Sheikh Mugrin about cooperation opportunities in the tourism and creative sectors, communications technology, and renewable energy. He also met the Director Team of Sobha Realty, one of the largest real estate industries in India and the UAE owned by a billionaire, P.N. Menon.

Minister Sandiaga explained that this series of visits is expected to increase the investment value in the tourism and creative sector in 2024. In the first semester of 2023, investment value in Indonesia was recorded at US$1,601.28 million. Of this amount, the foreign investment was at US$588.15 million, and domestic investment was at US$1,013.13 million.

"We must support this investment condition on an ongoing basis so that this investment is conducive to sustainability, world-class, and competitive and encourages regional development to prosperity," he said.

VOInews, Jakarta: The professional internship program for Australian students in Indonesia through the education and research consortium Australian Consortium For In Country Indonesian Studies (ACICIS) is running again in Indonesia. Voice of Indonesia RRI has again accepted Australian students for an internship for more than 3 weeks to study journalism and broadcasting for the 5th time. According to ACICIS program coordinator Helmi Wattimuri to Voice of Indonesia in Jakarta on Monday (8/1), the program which will be partcipated by university students from almost 10 well-known universities in Australia will be spread across 3 cities on the island of Java, and internships based on the majors taken at each campus. According to Helmi, there will be an increase in the number of applicants for internships in 2024 and placement institutions.

'So the current program we carry out is the professional practice program and we are hosting 113 university students from around 10 universities in Australia ( ACICIS) partner universities. Then, we also collaborate with several organizations or companies in Jakarta, Bogor and Jogjakarta and there are additions, so there are around 40 host organizations and they will accept university students for internships. Last year we hosted around 93 university students, but this year, it has increased to 113," Helmi said.

Moreover, Helmy Wattimurry explained that the intern university students have been in Indonesia since early January. In the first 2 weeks of January, they participated in Indonesian language learning and thematic seminars before being placed according to their internship interests on January 15. According to Helmy, the students' internship period in 2024 is shortened to less than 4 weeks due to Election Day in Indonesia on February 14, 2024.

VOInews, Jakarta: The Voice of Indonesia (VOI) the Overseas Service of RRI is hosting two Australian university students: Matthew Toohey and Maddie Toth who will take part in the ACICIS Journalism Professional Practicum (JPP) internship program from January 15 to 9 February 2024. To VOI in Jakarta on Monday (08/01) Matthew Toohey, a Bachelor's Degree (S2) university student majoring in International Relations and Journalism at Monash University, Melbourne expressed his interest in the world of multimedia journalism particulary online and radio.

“I’m really interested to see, to do some, I suppose, interviews and learn how to produce news across multiple different platforms. So, particularly online, particularly in radio and broadcast. I know that Voice of Indonesia has a really multi-platform approach, so I’m really interested to try both and see how that plays out when you do one story and you file it multiple different ways,” Mattew said.

Meanwhile Maddie Toth, a university student majoring in Communication and Journalism at Murdoch University, Perth Australia hopes to do behind-the-scenes jobs such as production, editing and scriptwriting.

“So I'm expecting to do a lot of behind-the-scenes work, a lot of production, editing, scripting, things like that. I kind of prefer being behind everything. And, yeah, so I think it would be an amazing opportunity to be able to produce and do work for Voice of Indonesia," Maddie said.

Furthermore, Australian Consortium for in-Country Indonesian Studies ( ACICIS ) is a non-profit consortium involving leading universities in Australia which has study programs on Indonesia. The Journalism Professional Practicum (JPP) internship program has been held since 2008 and it attracts many university students from Australia to obtain work experience in Indonesia, as well as deepening Indonesian culture.

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BERLIN : Germany's IT and telecommunication (ITC) sector is expected to speed up its growth this year and clearly outperform Germany's ailing economy, a study by German digital association Bitkom showed on Wednesday.

According to the study, the sector's revenues are expected to rise by 4.4 per cent to 224.3 billion euros ($245.09 billion), compared to a 2.0 per cent increase last year.

"Even under difficult economic conditions, characterised by geopolitical crises and budget cuts, sales and employment (within the sector) are increasing," said Bitkom President Ralf Wintergerst.

The industry's predicted growth for this year is, however, slow in comparison to other countries, including India, seen up 7.9 per cent, the U.S. expected to increase 6.3 per cent and China, estimated to grow 5.7 per cent.

"In order for Germany to catch up in terms of digitalization, companies and administrations need to ramp up their investments more decisively," Wintergerst said, urging the government to put digitalization and economic growth at the centre of its policies.

According to estimates of the International Monetary Fund, Germany's economy as a whole is expected to grow only 0.9 per cent in 2024, which remains well below the average of 1.4 per cent for advanced economies//CNA-VOI