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This is RRI World Service-Voice of Indonesia with Diplomatic Corner, a program which presents information about activities and progress of Indonesia’s diplomacy in the international world.

The first information comes from Lisbon. Indonesia successfully maintained the accomplishment of gold medal at the 2018 International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) held in Lisbon, Portugal on July the 28^th 2018. Indonesia won one gold medal, one silver and three bronze medals at the competition. Therefore, all delegates from Indonesia gained the medals. Johanes Suhardjo from Frateran Surabaya Christian High School won the gold medal. The silver medal was attained by Jason Jovi Brata from BPK Penabur I Christian Senior High School. Meanwhile, the bronze medals were obtained by Ahmad Aufar Thoriq from Semesta BBS Senior High School Semarang, Bryant Juspi from Darma Yudha Senior High School Pekanbaru, and Raditya Adhidarma Nugraha from State Senior High School One Yogyakarta. The International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) or also known as an International Olympiad on the subject of Physics was held from 21^st-29^th July 2018. High school students from 87 countries competed to achieve the highest score in the exam held by the committee of the International Physics Olympiad.

The second information is from Cairo. Indonesian Ambassador to Egypt, Helmy Fauzi received the 2018 Education and Culture Award in Cairo on Tuesday (31^st of July, 2018) at local time. Ambassador Helmy Fauzi was thought to have contributed for the development of education and culture in Egypt. The awarding ceremony was carried out by the Egyptian-Arab American Academy -EAAA. Besides Ambassador Helmy Fauzi, some other prominent figures who also received the awards are spokesperson of the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education and Research, Abdul Gafar, President of the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Mahmud Shaqr, President of the Egyptian Council for Innovation and Technology, Jehan Farhat, and President of the Egyptian Parliament’s Education, Husin Ashmawi. President of the Egyptian-Arab American Academy, Samrah Abadzah told that the awards were given to appreciate the contributions of both International and national figures in their attempt to advance the field of education and culture in Egypt. Ambassador Helmy Fauzi also explained that the cooperation of education and culture is one of the important sectors in the diplomatic relations between Indonesia and Egypt, especially since the relations of Indonesia and Egypt have been established for more than 71 years. The government of Indonesia keeps developing the cooperation between Indonesia and Egypt in various fields in a bid to increase the prosperity of society in both countries. 

The last information of Diplomatic Corner is from Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia encouraged the Micro, Small, and Medium Business Enterprises -UMKM of East Nusa Tenggara Province –NTT to expand the marketing of their products into the ASEAN market through digital economy. Directorate General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for ASEAN Cooperation, the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Business Enterprises, and the Provincial Government of NTT held an event to deliver suggestions about the policy and technical guidance with the theme “The Utilization of Digital Economy to Support the Small and Medium Business Enterprises for the ASEAN Economic Community” at Fernandez Hall, in NTT on Wednesday (August the 1^st 2018). The event was aimed at supporting 40 Small and Business Enterprises of NTT in utilizing mobile technology to distribute their products in the ASEAN market. The technical guidance was organized by Shopee Indonesia, the first mobile-based start-up company in Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, The Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Taiwan offering  e-commerce services via mobile phone. In the technical guidance, Shopee Indonesia gave tutorial how to create product illustrations which are visually attractive and commercially valuable and how to use online market place application to develop their businesses. The potential of Small and Medium Business Enterprises in NTT is abundant and distinctive, including cows, kelor leaves, weave, fishery, handicrafts, honey, coffee, and many others.

Today in History-over RRI World Service –Voice of Indonesia. We start from an event on 28^th July 1976 about Tremendous Earthquake Hit Northern China.

Tremendous earthquake rocked China in the morning around 03.45 am precisely in Tangshan, a city located in the northern part of Beijing. The city was stricken by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. The earthquake that only lasted for 23 seconds shattered one of the mining cities in China with population more than 100 million people. Based on the record, the number of victims approximately reached up to 250.000 people.

Now, we move to the next event on 28^th July 1990 that was Alberto Fujimori became the President of Peru and the third person of East Asian descendant ruling a Non-Asian country. During his period, President Alberto Fujimori successfully revived the stability of macro economy after the era of President Alan Garcia and brought peace to conflicted countries. President Fujimori was also successful in freeing dozens of hostages that were captured by a rebellious movement led by Tupac Amaru during the attack of Japanese Ambassador’s residence in Lima. Despite of his prominent contributions for the country, President Alberto Fujimaro was also criticized for being a dictatorial leader. A corruption scandal involving the Head of Peruvian Intelligence had degraded President Fujimaro’s popularity. In the end 2000, after the APEC meeting in Brunei, President Fujimaro went to Japan and resigned as the President of Peru by sending a letter of resignation via facsimile. The letter was delivered to the Embassy of Peru in Japan. However, eventually he was captured and extradited to Peru.

We end our segment -Today in History-with an event from 28^th July 1995, Vietnam was accepted as the 7^th member of ASEAN.

As the Cold War started to come to an end, the change of international structural system has brought about several consequences for the leaders of Vietnam to re-examine their foreign politics’ policy. The new format of Vietnam foreign politics’ policy that began to be more adaptive for its neighborhood countries was characterized by series of actions and plans supporting the member countries of Association of South East Asian -ASEAN to terminate negative judgment about Vietnam as a threat. Vietnam realized that the new ASEAN focused on striving economic goals. As the attempt to achieve these goals, ASEAN countries firstly had to create stability instead of making demands, for instance, democratization or intervention on other countries’ affairs. The membership of Vietnam in ASEAN was purposed as a strategy to achieve the main goal of ASEAN. The goal was establishing the ASEAN-10 meaning the ASEAN that was constituted by the whole ASEAN countries.

Today in History over RRI World Service -Voice of Indonesia. We start from an event on July 26 1965 about Air Force Academy’s birthday. 

Air Force Academy is an education school for Indonesian Air Force in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The academy’s history is started by Flight School established on November 15^th 1945 by Agustinus Adisutjipto in Maguwo Airbase which is now Adisutjipto Airport Yogyakarta. In September 1947, Indonesian Air Force for the first time accepted Senior High School alumnus to be educated as the flight students. In its further development, construction of the school was built as the place to learn. Coincided with Indonesian Air Force Day on April 9^th 1960, a grounbreaking ceremony of the establishmeny of Air Force Academy was held in Adisutjipto Airport.Furthermore, Air Force Academy was inaugurated by Minister of Commander of Air Force on July 26^th 1965. July 26t^h is later on declared as the Air Force Academy’s birthday.

The next event is that in 1965, Maldives got its independence. 

Maldives is an archipelagic country in Hindia Ocean. Islam is majority religion of Maldivians. In early 16^th century,  Maldives was colonized by Portuguese and then by Dutch, France, and in late 19^th century, Maldives was ruled by England. Since 1887 until its independence on July 26^th 1965, the country became the part of English guardianship. Since 1153 until 1968, the country was in the form of independent islamic sultanate. Later on, the form of sultanate government was removed and changed to be republic.

And the last event is that July 26^th is International Mangrove Day. 

July 26^th was set as International Mangrove Day at the United Nations Conference for UNESCO in November 2015. On the conference, Ecuador suggests July 26^th as International Mangrove Day because some South American countries have been commemorating the day although it was not officially set by the world organization. The countries commemorate July 26^th as “Mangrove Day” to recall a Micronesian Greenpeace activist, Hayhow Daniel Nanoto who passed away on July 26^th 1998 because of heart attack when he was involved in great protest action led by environment organization -FUNDECOL and International Greenpeace. During the action, the local community -Muisne joined some non-governmental organizations to dismantle shrimp ponds which were placed illegally in the effort of bringing the damaged mangrove zone back to its normal condition. FUNDECOL and other environment organizations recall Hayhow’s death in every July 26^th as the commemoration for saving the mangrove.

Today's Mosaic of the Archipelago presents information: first, military developing Natuna village is valued successful. The second information is about "N(G)Antar Paimah" Sleman receives SLRT Award. We end Mosaic of the Archipelago with the information on Kodim 0726 Sukoharjo develops Farming Program of Jagan Bendosari village.

Listener, the program of the 102nd Military Developing Village which was conducted by Kodim 0318 Natuna at Pulau Tiga district received directly the visit of Head of Army Staff, Brigadier General Agus Heru Prasetyo on Tuesday (24/7). He directly observed the implementation of Military Developing Village and also met with residents at Pulau Tiga district, the outer island of Indonesia. In the program, Pulau Tiga district received physical assistance with additional permanent path and guidance of knowledge on health. The program is cooperation between the Indonesian Army and Ministry of Health. The Ministry of Health also gave assistance, such as medicines, medical devices and vitamin for babies and children in the region. On the occasion, Brigadier General Agus reminded the local people to always have love on the country and to protect the unity of the Unitary State of Republic of Indonesia by protecting facilities which were built together. Brigadier General Agus also said that although at border area and far from the central government, it does mean that people are ignored by the government. Agus hoped that all facilities can be used and maintained together. He also appreciated the participation of the people in helping succeed the program voluntarily. In his visit, Brigadier General Agus also handed over sport equipment and grass cutting machine. He also observed social events and health checks for the community.

Regent of Sleman, Sri Purnomo received “Integrated Referral Service Award" from Ministry of Social Affairs for his innovation "N(G)Antar Paimah" or in English means Home Delivery Service. The award was handed over by Director General of Social Empowerment at the Social Affairs Ministry, PP Nazarudin in North Jakarta on Wednesday. Regent Purnomo hoped that the award becomes motivation for Sleman regency to increase service in social sector. He also said that "N(G)Antar Paimah` is innovation which gives easy  service to poor and vulnerable people so that all the government’s programs can reach all communities. N(G)Antar Paimah can also be used by the residents who need transportation service for being delivered to sustainable service or delivered until home.

We end Mosaic of the Archipelago with the information on Kodim 0726 Sukoharjo develops Farming Program of Jagan Bendosari village.

Kodim 0726 Sukoharjo along with Agriculture and Fishery Office of Sukoharjo regency keeps doing innovation to increase agricultural productivity. One of them to be developed is to maximize critical land of rain-fed to become integrated agricultural land. The “Pilot project” system of “integrated farming” was conducted by farmer group of Subur Mulyo, Jagan village, Bendosari district. Lieutenant Colonel Candra Aryadi Prakoso told the journalists on the sidelines rice harvest, planting rice and fish harvest at Demplot land, at Jagan village, Bendosari, on Tuesday (24/7) that finally, the system is able to produce combination product of rice, fish, chicken with livestock waste system which can be used as land fertilizer. His side hoped that the system can be imitated by farmers and other groups to increase agricultural productivity, especially at the critical land. Meanwhile, Regent of Sukoharjo, Wardoyo Wijaya said that Sukoharjo has many adopted technologies in agricultural sector. One of them is “integrated farming” by combining all agricultural components in one integrated agriculture. On the occasion, the Regent symbolically handed over assistance of  agricultural machine tool from Directorate General of Agricultural Infrastructure and Facilities at the Ministry of Agriculture Affairs.