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Early June, ANOC (Association of National Olympic Committees) officially announced that Indonesia will host the ANOC World Beach Games-AWBG to take place in Bali in 2023. In addition to hosting the beach and water sports events from 5-12 August 2023, Bali will also host the XXVII ANOC General Assembly.

In the official website for the World Beach Games Activities, a qualification system has been released for the seven mandatory sports to be competed, namely aquathlon, beach handball, beach football, beach tennis, beach wrestling, karate, and 5km open water swimming. However, to participate in the event, even though as the host, Indonesian athletes must take part in the selection or a qualifying championship.

In response to this, the Secretary General of the Indonesian Olympic Committee (KOI) Ferry J Kono, recently in Jakarta, reminded the related sports branches in Indonesia to prepare for the qualifying championship. Ferry in his statement said that based on the inaugural games of the AWBG in Doha, the host Qatar still had to pass qualifying tournaments for several sports. Likewise with the one to be held in Bali, Indonesian athletes must participate in the qualifying round. The qualification system will refer to the world rankings and the quota will be given in two ways, namely the results at the World Championships and the continental qualifiers.

In addition to organizing the 7 sports that have been approved, Indonesia as the host has the right to propose several sports to be competed. According to Ferry J Kono, Indonesia has proposed several sports, including water badminton, sport climbing, beach dragon boat, and paragliding. In addition, Indonesia also asked for two sports to be exhibited, namely sepak takraw and pencak silat..

Indonesian Embassy Tokyo held a business meeting between Japan Autoparts Industries Association - JAPIA and Indonesian Auto Parts Small and Medium Industry Association (PIKKO) at Indonesian Embassy Tokyo on Wednesday, for a cooperation opportunity with a Japanese association member company.

Indonesian Ambassador for Japan Heri Akhmadi, in a press release received by ANTARA on Thursday, said that most small and medium industries are partnering with Japan for the long-term. Therefore, it expected a tighter and wider cooperation.

Ambassador Heri hoped the existing working network could be followed-up so it resulted in concrete business cooperation. He invited JAPIA Chairman to do a business visit to Indonesia and see the industrial area specifically prepared for auto parts factories.

The JAPIA Chairman and Denso Corporation CEO Koji Arima affirmed his commitment to strengthen the tight cooperation with Indonesia.

According to him, with support from the local suppliers, JAPIA members in Indonesia could increase the local content rate up to 73 percent. Later, JAPIA is ready to support quality improvement of local suppliers from the PIKKO members in order to get a higher competitive value.

In line with JAPIA, the Acting Chairman of Indonesian Auto Parts Small and Medium Industry Association Farri Aditya affirmed the importance of collaboration among parts suppliers in creating a product unit for automotive in anticipation of the 4.0 industry.

Meanwhile, President of Indonesian Automotive Institute, Made Dana Tangkas ensured the tight business relations of Indonesia and Japan in the automotive sector.

Made explained that based on the data from Indonesian Automotive Institute, from 434 members of JAPIA, some 120 of them had entered Indonesia by establishing 162 auto parts companies. Made hoped the JAPIA members could invest in Indonesia and brought the new generation auto parts technology, such as electric motorcycle, gear-box, parking-brake system, and airbag.

The business meeting closed the Autoparts Business Forum 2022, initiated by Indonesian Embassy Tokyo in collaboration with Indonesian Employers Association (APINDO) and supported by Indonesian Industry Ministry, Bank Indonesia, and MUFG Bank of Japan. 

From June 24-29 2022, some 30 representatives of Indonesian auto parts small and medium industry under the Indonesian Auto Parts Small and Medium Industry Association stayed in Japan to join the Autoparts Business Forum 2022.

Starting on Monday (27/6), President Joko Widodo attended the G7 Summit which is held at Elmau Palace, in the Alps region, Bavaria, Germany. The G7 is a forum for developed and industrialized countries consisting of the United States, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada and France. As quoted by Reuters, Germany, as the host of this year's G7 summit, invited Indonesia, Senegal, Argentina, India and South Africa as partner countries to this summit.

President Joko Widodo seized this invitation to promote investment opportunities in the clean energy sector in Indonesia. This was conveyed by President Joko Widodo, Monday (27/6) while attending the G7 Summit working lunch session with the topics of climate change, energy, and health. This is the information on the presidenri.go.id page.

President Joko Widodo also seized the trip to Europe to visit Ukraine and Russia, which are in conflict. Before leaving for Europe, he had informed that his visits to Ukraine and Russia were to encourage the two countries to open dialogue for peace.

Some people may think that President Joko Widodo's visit to Ukraine and Russia will be in vain. This is because the big countries, which have the resources and power to coerce, have not been able to prevent Russia from continuing to attack Ukraine. Indeed, President Joko Widodo himself did not say that he was trying to reconcile the two countries. He wants to encourage the leaders of the two countries to open dialogue so that through dialogue, they themselves would seek peace.

President Joko Widodo's efforts also need to be supported by all Indonesian people, because there is a bigger interest, namely securing the food supply chain. The Russian-Ukrainian war has hampered food distribution, disrupted the economy and made it difficult for developing and low-income countries to find food, plunging them into extreme poverty. Indonesia itself is still a developing country. If the war continues, Indonesia will also experience food shortages and economic collapse due to skyrocketing food prices. Hopefully, President Joko Widodo's efforts are followed by leaders of other developing countries, so that all countries support the creation of Russia-Ukraine peace.

Indonesian Ambassador to Cambodia, Sudirman Haseng handed over a copy of Memorandum of Understanding on Indonesia-Cambodia Tourism Cooperation to Cambodian Tourism Minister, Dr. Thong Khon in an official event on Friday (24/6). The MoU was signed by Indonesian Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Sandiaga Uno and his Cambodian counterpart, Minister Dr. Thong Khon amid the ASEAN Tourism Forum (18/01).

Cambodian Tourism Minister stated that, after hit by pandemic, currently the tourism in Cambodia is recovering. He also said until May 2022, some 343 thousand foreign tourists have visited Cambodia, increasing 272 percent from the previous year. About connectivity, Minister Thong Khon hoped for a Phnom Penh-Jakarta direct flight which was stopped in 2019 to be reopened, to support the two countries' tourism sector.

In his remarks, Ambassador Sudirman Haseng said that the MoU has brought the Indonesia-Cambodia tourism cooperation to a higher level. After the MoU signing, Indonesian Embassy Phnom Penh implemented it in the form of Halla tourism basic training for officials of the Cambodian Tourism Ministry.

Ambassador Sudirman also included the Beyond Bali tourism promotion by screening of "Labuan Hati" and coffee cupping from East Nusa Tenggara, which was expected to attract Cambodians to visit Indonesia.

The cooperation sectors included in the Indonesia-Cambodia Tourism Cooperation MoU were tourism promotion and marketing, tourism destination management, private cooperation, capacity increase, Meeting, Incentive, Conference, and Exhibition (MICE) cooperation, events, and connectivity.