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Indonesia – the world's third-biggest democracy with the largest Muslim population worldwide – has emerged as one of China's most crucial partners in bilateral cooperation.

"Indonesia becomes China's most important partners in bilateral cooperation, including investment. Indonesia is the largest country in Southeast Asia," Consul General of the People's Republic of China Gou Haodong stated in Denpasar, Bali, on Monday (Sept 2).

The relations between China and Indonesia date back thousand years and continue to deepen.

China is currently venturing ahead across all sectors and will continue to intensify cooperation with other nations in the world.

"The Indonesian market is quite large, and it will greatly offer benefits to China that continues to invest in Indonesia," Haodong remarked.

In connection with investment, China had given due priority to humanity and mutual benefits.

Haodong pointed out that in 1978, China had begun implementing reforms and openness, in terms of investment. During that time, the government had issued policies with the objective of attracting investors.

After policy reformation in the nation, foreign investors have steadily invested their capital, and China has shown steady growth.

"Hence, the purpose of investment is not only to offer benefits to investors but also the country of China," he emphasized

Tourism Minister, Arief Yahya, inaugurated the Digital Tourist Market of Lake Cangkuang in Leles Subdistrict, Garut District of West Java, which is expected to lead to an increase in the number of tourists visiting the region.

"Millennials need a tourist destination which is attractive when captured on camera," Yahya said here on Monday.

According to the minister, millennials would need a tourist destination, which is well-designed. 
Garut District Head, Rudy Gunawan, said Lake Cangkuang is an interesting place to take selfies. It also has a historical site such as the Cangkuang Temple and a customary village, Kampung Pulo.

"Lake Cangkuang is quite a complete tourist destination. In addition to its natural beauty, we can learn about history, take good pictures and eat good food," he said.

Previously, Garut inaugurated two other digital tourist destinations in Lake Bagendit in Banyuresmi Subdistrict and Dayeuh Manggung in Cilawu Subdistrict.

Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Retno Marsudi, inaugurated the first "oil and gas corner" at the Indonesian Embassy in Kuwait City, aimed at attracting investments in the oil and gas sector.

"The inauguration of the first oil and gas corner at the Indonesian Embassy in Kuwait City marks the important role of Indonesia’s Representative to attract investors in the oil and gas sector in Indonesia," said Minister Marsudi in a written statement issued by the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs received here on Monday.

The statement was delivered by the Indonesian Foreign Minister during her opening remarks at the inauguration of the Oil and Gas Corner at the Indonesian Embassy in Kuwait City on September 1, 2019.

The inauguration is a form of new initiative and collaboration between the Indonesian Embassy in Kuwait and the Oil and Gas Special Work Unit (SKK MIGAS).

"The oil and gas corner will facilitate investors in the sector to learn about the potential of oil and gas exploration from Sabang to Merauke in Indonesia without having to visit Indonesia," said Marsudi.

The inauguration was also attended by the CEO of Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC), Shaikh Nawaf Al-Sabah, as well as several investors and business persons in the oil and gas sector in Kuwait.

The corner is also equipped with a collection of the latest literature and information on the upstream oil and gas industry, potential resources, and profiles of the oil and gas industry businesspersons in Indonesia.

"Through technological advancement, we will bring Indonesia's oil and gas potential to foreign investors," Minister Marsudi stated.

"The oil and gas corner at the Indonesian Embassy in Kuwait is the first we have ever established, and we seek to set up several others. The oil and gas corner will also be developed in other RI’s representatives around the world, especially in countries that have great cooperation potential in the oil and gas sector," she explained. 
The corner at the Indonesian Embassy in Kuwait was launched before the procurement of the Indonesia-Kuwait First Commission Assembly that was co-led by Marsudi and Kuwaiti Foreign Minister, Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al Hamad Al Sabah, in Kuwait City on September 2, 2019.

"I expect that the oil and gas corner will be Indonesia's foremost storefront in attracting Kuwaiti investors in the Indonesian oil and gas sector," she said.

In accordance with President Joko Widodo's instructions on economic diplomacy, all Indonesia’s representatives will be mandated to attract investment and promote exports.

Indonesia is currently focusing on exploring 10 main oil and gas source points from Sabang to Merauke with a total estimated value of oil and gas resources of around 10 billion in equivalence with the crude oil barrel.

Kuwait is one of the first and largest energy partners for Indonesia with the value of oil and gas imports reaching US$214 million in 2018. The Indonesia-Kuwait bilateral trade value reached more than $403 million in 2018.

KUFPEC, the Kuwaiti oil company, has been a long-time partner for Indonesia in exploring its oil and gas sector potential since the 1980s.

The ultrasensitive control methods that the Russian-European scientific community is currently striving for are crucially important in a plethora of spheres of human life – from biomedicine seeking unique ways to diagnose cancer at early stages, to food production and more thorough environmental control.

Specialists at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, as well as the Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with France’s Aix-Marseille University and Britain's University of Manchester, have proposed a concept of hypersensitive sensory transducers (“Fourier-nano-transducers”) that may drastically revolutionise ultrasensitive control in biomedicine and a whole range of other spheres.

The results of the research are reflected in a fresh publication in the scientific journal “Advanced Functional Materials”.

Fourier-nano-transducers are monolayer architectures of gold nanoparticles, which are arranged on the surface as nano-periodic structures in such a way that their illumination leads to a plasmon disturbance (electromagnetically-bound collective resonances of free radicals) in the metal system.

These transducers are unique in the way that they are capable of concentrating the electric field of a light wave in a super-thin layer and thus obtain information about its optic properties before further transmitting it (in reflected or diffracted light rays) in the form of specially coded correlations, or ratios between light wave phases, Dr Andrei Kabashin, scientific director of the Institute of Engineering Physics for Biomedicine at the MEPhI National Research Nuclear University, explained at length.

According to Dr Andrei Kabashin, the hypersensitivity of the proposed nano-transducers is well seen in the registered ferroelectric effect from the atomic layer of molybdenum diselenide (MoS₂, alternative to the famed graphene). The scientists refer to the fact that such a minute effect was registered from the atomic layer as unprecedented and ushering in a whole new era for 2D material research.

Another example of such hypersensitivity is the brand-new methodology to detect the antibiotic chloramphenicol, widely used in the medicine and food industries.

It is vital to keep full control over its concentration in foods, as its exceedance was found to lead to oncological diseases and cardio dysfunctions.

The research has demonstrated that Fourier-nano-transformers boost the chances of detecting the antibiotic a thousand fold as compared with other approaches. They are predicted to prove effective in a wealth of spheres – for instance, when it comes to early diagnoses of dangerous illnesses, as well as ultrasensitive doping control, monitoring the quality of food and environmental conditions.

In a parallel study, the aforementioned research group, together with Russian scientists from the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, came up with a unique way of using silicon nanoparticles for cancer diagnostics. As Dr Kabashin explained, due to nanoparticles boasting a powerful “nonlinear response under optical excitation”, scientists may soon find it possible to “reconsider the problem of bio-imaging for one of the most promising nanomaterials”. (Sputnik)