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The trading policy issued by the President of the United State of America. Donald Trump drew the attention because it carries “America First’ agenda which is considered to be a protectionist policy. In addition, the policy is also considered to be detrimental to many countries that have made the United States as the export destination country. Nevertheless, the Indonesian Ambassador to the United States in Washington DC, Budi Bowoleksono believes that the trade potential in the US is still widely open, He said, the potential was still wide open as Indonesia is also an important market for the US trading, especially related to information technology products

“But we believe that trading potency of both countries is still widely open. Besides, Indonesia is an important market for America, especially information technology products because Indonesia has 262 million populations. American market is also very important for Indonesia. Indonesia exports many products such as fishery products, footwear, and chemical products,” Budi Bowoleksono told media at the Foreign Ministry, Jakarta, recently.

Budi Bowoleksono added that currently the United States is focusing on trading policy on surplus and deficit issues. The country is introducing a new concept in trading called fair and reciprocal trade which is different from the previous concept, fair trade. Fair and reciprocal trade is a trade concept that promotes justice and reciprocity with a primary focus on surplus and deficit. This concept has a broad meaning, not just about competitive trade like the concept of fair trade but also mutual beneficial trade. (VOI/Rezha/ALIKA /AHM)

Yogyakarta Tourism Office is intensively promoting new tourist destinations. The effort is to increase the visits of domestic and overseas tourists to the area this year. Yogyakarta Tourism Head Aris Riyanta, on Saturday (17/2) admitted almost every year the number of new tourist destinations both culinary and nature tourism, increases in Yogyakarta. He hoped, the emergence of the new destinations, provide many options for tourists who want to visit Yogyakarta. According to him, in addition to various exhibition events in the country, the promotion of new tourist destinations will among others be prioritized in every visit to Asian and European countries. (republika)

Indonesian Ambassador to Malaysia, Rusdi Kirana, stated that it is time for Indonesia to do a temporary moratorium on sending Indonesian Migrant Workers.  He added Moratorium should be done, to give opportunities to restructure employment administration process, so that in the future there will be no adverse incident harming the Indonesian Migrant Workers in Malaysia, especially workers at the informal sector such as household assistants.

“The moratorium is very important, not for good, only temporary, but in the meantime what has to be done for us is restructuring. We have employment administration process there. If the incident like Adelina's happen again, it will harm the good name of Indonesia, as well as the good name of Malaysia, and the relationship of these two countries will not be good. I'm sure Malaysian officials are really angry with this incident,” Rusdi Kirana said to the media at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of RI, Jakarta, recently.

In connection with the death of Indonesian Migrant Workers from East Nusa Tenggara, Adelina Jemirah, in Penang, Malaysia, Rusdi Kirana stated that he will continue to seek to get all her rights and justice in the legal process. So far, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia still continues to provide assistance to Adelina. An investigation conducted on two suspects was conducted using article 302 of the Malaysian Penal Code on Planned Murder with capital punishment // (VOI/Rezha/AHM)

The 14th Campus Convention and the 20th Annual Meeting of the Indonesian Rector Forum held at Hasanuddin Makassar Campus on 15th and 16th February, resulted six recommendations. This was stated by the Head of Public Relations and Protocol Unit of Hasanuddin University Ishaq Rahman, in Makassar, Friday (16/2). As quoted by Antara, the six recommendations are encouraging universities to innovate and conduct research that can be utilized optimally to support economic sector and nation's competitiveness, encouraging the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education to de-bureaucratization and deregulation on licensing to answer problem of disruption era and industrial revolution 4.0. In addition, the recommendations also touched on restoring the values ​​of Pancasila in the life of nation and state through various strategies and steps that must be done by all institutions, especially by universities. The Rector Forum was attended by 527 state and private university rectors across Indonesia. (antara/trans alika)