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on June 1, President Joko Widodo became a ceremony inspector to commemorate the birthday of ‘Pancasila’. The ceremony was held at the courtyard of the Pancasila Building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Central Jakarta. He acted as the inspector virtually through the Bogor Presidential Palace. Interestingly, when leading the ceremony to commemorate the Birthday of Pancasila, President Joko Widodo appeared to wear the traditional apparel from Tanah Bumbu, South Kalimantan.

For today’s edition of Indonesian Wonder, I am going to introduce traditional apparel of Tanah Bumbu

At the ceremony to commemorate the Birthday of Pancasila, President Joko Widodo wore black clothes, and matched it with a distinctive green-patterned hat. This is the traditional apparel from Tanah Bumbu. The traditional apparel of Tanah Bumbu Bugis Pagatan is characterized by the use of Pagatan woven fabrics. This apparel is used as a sarong and also a laung or head covering. The meaning of the sarong used in this traditional dress is as a symbol of skilled and hardworking humans. Laung symbolizes authority and might.

While, the inside of the shirt is called ‘Teluk Balana’ which is a symbol of the religious clothes of the archipelago. The trousers and belt worn also have meaning. The pants are a symbol of loyalty, and a cloth belt represents a symbol of simplicity. As a complement, there is a flower or gold flower on the left chest as a symbol of a wise leader.

Voice of Indonesia with Let’s Speak Indonesian, a program that introduces the Indonesian vocabulary and guides you to speak in the language. Mari Berbahasa Indonesia or Let’s Speak Indonesian is a joint initiative of Voice of Indonesia and the Language Development Agency of the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture.  Today’s topic is still about Sakit which means Sick.

Here is the conversation entitledTiga Kali Sehari which means Three Times a Day. This dialog is between Kevin and a doctor at a clinic. The doctor tells Kevin about medication rules.Let’s read to the conversation.

Having listened to the conversation, now I am going to introduce some vocabulary and expressions related to the topic of the day.

In the dialog, you listen to an expression Minum tiga kali sehari (2x) which means Take it three times a day or in a complete expression is Minum obat ini tiga kali sehari (2x) which means Take this medicine threee times a day. In the expression, there is the word kali (2x) which means time. In the conversation between Kevin and the doctor, the word kali is used to state frequency of an action. For example, Minum obat ini tiga kali sehari! (2x) which means Take this medicine three times a day!

Let’s read to another example to use the word.

Doctor: Minum obat ini satu kali sehari, ya, Pak! (2x) which means Please take this medicine once a day, Sir!

Kevin: Baik, Dok (2x) which means Alright

Kevin : Saya makan tiga kali sehari (2x) which means I eat three times a day

Doctor: Oh, begitu(2x) which means Oh, I see

That was “Let’s Speak Indonesian” for today. Hopefully, this edition can be useful for those of you who want to know more about Indonesian language. 

Seven importers, distributors and owners of restaurants in Hong Kong received the Consulate Awards 2020 for participating in promoting Indonesia's economic diplomacy. The Indonesian Consulate General in Hong Kong in a written statement quoted by Antara in Lanzhou, China, Saturday (5/6) stated that the award was handed over to the  winners in Hong Kong recently.  The Consulate Awards were given through the assessment and selection of dozens of companies importing and distributing Indonesian products, restaurants serving Indonesian food, and corporate agencies.

The Indonesian Consul General in Hong Kong, Ricky Suhendar explained that  finally, the vision, innovation, and efforts of the companies and agencies in achieving excellence in running a business  contribute to strengthening the Indonesia-Hong Kong economic and trade partnership. The Indonesian Consulate General ( KJRI)  and stakeholders in Hong Kong continuously strive to encourage the export of Indonesian products to Hong Kong. Ricky emphasized that this award is expected to be a motivation for business people because through perseverance and hard work, success can be achieved.

On the same occasion, KJRI also gave an award to Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) Hong Kong for its support to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and capacity building efforts for the Indonesian citizen community in Hong Kong.

Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Maritime and Investment, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan has visited China recently. In his visit, Minister Luhut met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Guiyang on Saturday (05/06). In the meeting, both of them signed a MoU on forming High Level Dialogue and Cooperation Mechanism -HDCM. In this agreement, Indonesian Coordinating Ministry for Maritime and Investment and members of Chinese State Council were given authority by each government to act as HDCM leaders. Both sides also signed a MoU on Maritime Cooperation Strengthening.

The press statement of the Coordinating Ministry of Maritime and Investment on Monday (07/06) mentioned that Minister Luhut expressed his belief that both countries can keep strengthening the mutually beneficial relations to increase people's welfare now and tomorrow.

The meeting discussed some strategic topics of the two countries, starting from politics, security, health, synergy, and strategy for developing priority cooperation projects, trade and economy, investment, as well as maritime and aeronautics. There were also some thematic meeting sessions with Chinese government and private sector discussing some cooperation programs and projects to be done by the two sides.

Meanwhile, quoting China's Foreign Ministry official webpage on Saturday (06/06), Minister Wang Yi said that Indonesia is a main developing country and quite important. According to Wang Yi, China always sees the China-Indonesia relations from a strategic perspective and will develop the two countries' cooperation from the global perspective.

Wang Yi further said that more recently, China and Indonesia have been joining hands in handling Covid-19 pandemic. Then, both countries also cooperated in vaccination. They had further coordinated development strategies, promoted development cooperation, and contributed for regional economic recovery.

Some Indonesia-China projects, such as Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail and Two Countries Twin Park are going smoothly. Also, China is Indonesia's top trade partner in the last 10 years and 2nd top investment source. Wang Yi said that both countries must take the High-Level Dialogue and Cooperation Mechanism as an opportunity to plan some better bilateral cooperation in various sectors, to collect more resources, and to form a greater synergy in a bid to bring the bilateral relations into a higher level.