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The young racer who has flown in the karting world, Keanon Santoso will compete in F4 Asia Formula Renault 2018 race which becomes his main priority after being vacuum for some time. In a press conference at Kelapa Gading area in Jakarta on Monday, Keanon said that he has been preparing for the 2018 Formula Renault Asia pre-season practice that has been followed since the end of January 2018. In the practice, he recorded 1 minute 56.2 seconds or faster than the targeted time of 1:58 seconds. In the 2018 Asian Formula Renault, for the first time, Keanon will try out the Shanghai International Circuit in China on April 28-29 before competing in the next race. In the preparation, Keanon and his team, ATR Motorsport will go to Shanghai on Friday (20/4) or one week before the racing starts, and will do various training sessions there. During his career in racing, Keanon Santoso has won the overall champion achievement of Junior Rotax Max Challenge Indonesia 2015 and represented Indonesia at the Rotax Max Grand Final World Championship held at Circuito de Algarve in Portugal. In 2016, Keanon won the "double winner" as Eshark Rok Cup Indonesia national champion and Asian Rok Cup champion in the senior class of Rok GP.

Mixed doubles pair -Ronald Alexander / Annisa Saufika won the runner-up position in China Masters 2018 badminton tournament in the Final session held at Agile Stadium, Hainan in China on Sunday. Based on the Badminton World Federation (BWF) page monitored from Jakarta on Sunday, the Indonesian duet, that was named as the first seed, must recognize the superiority of the host couple, Guo Xinwa/Liu Xuanxuan after competing three games for an interminable 55 minutes with a score 17-21, 21-7, 19-21. Ronald and Annisa became the sole representative of Indonesia who qualified in the Super 100 final tournament. Indonesia in China Master 2018 sent pairs of men's doubles, women's doubles, men's and women’s singles as well as mixed doubles.  The host certainly won four titles of China Masters 2018. After the mixed doubles and their women's singles became champions, women's doubles and men's doubles will also belong to China. While in men's singles, Lin Yu Hsien from Taiwan won the title after subduing the host representative, Lu Guangzu with the scores: 12-21, 21-12, 21-14.

Indonesian team of 8 players won The Badminton Tournament held by Dubai Club for People of Determination. The first tournament for disabilities people in the Middle East was held at Shabab Al Ahli Dubai Club Sports Center at Al Mamzar Dubai on April 12-15 2018. The tournament was attended by more than 200 players and officials from 23 countries and it’s scheduled to be upgraded as a ranking competition towards qualifying for 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. In the tournament, Indonesian team sent 6 athletes and 2 officials, including physiotherapy physician and team manager. Indonesian team won 4 gold medals and 2 silver medals. Besides Indonesia, the countries that joined 1^st Fazza Dubai The Badminton 2018 are France, England, Ireland, Finland, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong - China, and Australia.

Men's volleyball team of Surabaya Bhayangkara Samator successfully won the Proliga 2018 after mastering the situation and defeating Palembang Sumsel Babel Bank 3-1 (25-22,25-16,23-25 and 30-28) in final match at Yogyakarta on Sunday. In the grand final match held at Amongrogo Sports Arena in Yogyakarta, Surabaya Bhayangkara Samator team  dominated the first two sets. Even in the second set, the team trained by Ibarsyah barely got any meaningful resistance from Sumsel Babel Bank. Coach of Palembang Sumsel Babel Bank, Samsul Jais did not say that despite having to settle in the runner-up position, he remained grateful because his team's journey appearing in the grand final round required a tough struggle. Coach of Surabaya Bhayangkara Samator, Ibarsyah said that the key of the team victory is on three factors namely, mastery "receive" the first ball, service, and block. The factors are the important things to grab points. This is continuously improved from the first round until the grand final round. Meanwhile, Head of The National Volleyball Federation of Indonesia, Commissioner General Imam Sujarwo said that Proliga 2019 will be held earlier than the set schedule which will start in December 2018 because the year -2019 is coinciding with the presidential election.

Southeast Sulawesi –Sultra was originally the name of one of the regencies of South Sulawesi and the capital regency of Southeast Sulawesi province was Baubau. Then, Southeast Sulawesi has been stipulated as Autonomous Region based on regulation No. 2/1964 with Kendari as the provincial capital. The realization of the formation of Southeast Sulawesi Regional Level I was implemented on 27 April 1964. To enliven the Southeast Sulawesi 54^th anniversary, the provincial government of Southeast Sulawesi prepares seven main activities of its anniversary which is packaged in the event "Halo Sultra" in Tugu Religi Alun Alun Kendari on April,23rd-27th, 2018. Halo Sultra was first held in 2008. Then, it was named Southeast Sulawesi Sheen. In 2009, the official name was changed to Halo Sultra. The word "Halo" is taken from Haluoleo, one of the kings who ruled the kingdom of Konawe in the 17th century, while "Sultra" is an abbreviation of Southeast Sulawesi Province. The event of ‘Halo Sultra 2018’ has been set as 100 events of Wonderful Indonesia by Ministry of Tourism -Kemenpar more recently. So, Halo Sultra becomes Indonesia's main tourism activity involving countries in the world. Ministry of Tourism promotes Halo Sultra to 117 countries in the world, especially all ASEAN countries, Japan, China, Australia, and Middle East countries and some countries in Europe, America, and Africa.By targeting 100,000 tourists, the provincial government of Southeast Sulawesi presents seven activities. Several event groups are prepared, such as Sultra Tenun Carnival, Cultural Art Degree, and Culinary Festival. There are also Tourism Putra Putri Tournament, Development Fairs, Business Forums, and International Photography Competition. The differences between Halo Sultra 2018  and the previous one last year are that there are two events to be held by the technical coordinator of national business forums in the field of tourism and international photo contest. Related to International Photography Competition, there are currently at least 12 countries to have ensured their participation.

We present the songs from Central Java Region. A song entitled “JANGKRIK GENGGONG” is not known who the creator was. This song tells about two people who learn to know each other. In the process of knowing each other, it is described how to feel longing with someone when he or she is away from the loved one. The song "JANGKRIK GENGGONG" has also been performed by famous Indonesia Keroncong singer, Waldjinah. This song entitled “CUBAK CUBAK SUWENG” is usually sung by children while playing the game called ‘Cublak Cublak Suweng’. The game requires three people at least. How to play is that one child faces down in the middle, while the other children surround while taking turns grasping the pebbles and singing the song "Cublak Cublak Suweng". If the child on the stomach can guess who is holding the pebble, then someone who holds the pebbles will replace the child facing down earlier. The meaning of the song "Cublak Cublak Suweng" itself is to get true happiness. Then, one must escape from the love of worldly possessions, emptying oneself, being humble, not demeaning and always being conscious.

Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry represented by expert staff of foreign affairs minister in the field of economic diplomacy has received the visit of Deputy Director General (DDG) for Copyrights and Creative Industry Sector of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Ms. Sylvie Forbin on Thursday (12/4). The visit is a follow-up to the meeting of director general of WIPO in September 2017 with Indonesian vice minister of foreign affairs to discuss role and support of WIPO on strengthening and formulation of intellectual property policy in Indonesia, especially in the field of creative economic industry. In accordance with the instruction of Indonesian president, intellectual property becomes a very important issue for Indonesia, especially to encourage the contribution of creative economy to the economy. Thus, the Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry expressed its plan to organize World Conference on Creative Economy (WCCE) in November in Bali, and asked WIPO to support the event. The plan got a good response from Deputy Director General Sylvie Forbin said her support to WCCE.

The committee of overseas election of Indonesia in Manila becomes the host of socialization and technical guidance of general election 2019, which was attended by 48 participants from 6 Indonesian representatives namely Bangkok, Dili, Singapore, Manila, Davao and Songkhla. The event was attended by the Commissioner of General Election Commission, Pramono Ubait Tanthowi and Secretary General of General Election Commission, Arif Rahman Hakim. During the technical guidance which was held in Manila on April 14 and 15, 2018, the center commission and working group of overseas general election shared knowledge on the basis of law and regulation related to the overseas general election, and also working mechanism and management of the budget of the overseas general election committee to make the general election 2019 (legislative, presidential and vice presidential election) a success. Socialization of general election 2019 was conducted in the Indonesian embassy in Manila on April 14, 2018 and attended by around 200 Indonesian people in Manila and surrounding area. Indonesian Ambassador to the Phillipines  Sinyo Harry Sarundajang welcomed the team and expressed his appreciation the team and the participants.

In line with the Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi’s directions,  Palestine is always in heartbeat of Indonesian diplomacy, and views the importance role of UNESCO in protecting the Old City and Wall of Jerusalem, and the efforts to reconstructand develop Gaza and two sites of cultural heritages in Hebron and Bethlehem. This was affirmed by Ret.LieutenantGeneral Hotmangaraja Pandjaitan, Indonesian ambassador/permanent representative to UNESCO during discussing 25 agendas on Occupied Palestine in the 204th plenary session of executive council of United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization/UNESCO in Paris, (12/4/2018). Ambassador Hotmangaraja asserted that the written heritage in Palestineshould be preserved as world cultural heritage which cannot be separated each other. It is because those sites are not only function as the form of culture or civilization of a particular nation, but a complete description of various human histories. The cultural heritage site which is protected by UNESCO, is two sites in Palestine; Al Haram Al Ibrahim in Al Khalil/Hebron and Bilal Ibn Rabah mosque/ Rachel cemetery in Bethlehem.