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5Cultural Diplomacy: It’s More than Just A Cultural Materials Exchange, It’s A Nation Branding

Mengenal Lebih dalam World Music9Book Review: Batik is not only loved by Indonesians11

July- August 2012

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NoteEditor's

Maybe People don’t care about what high level int’l summits happen today, next week, or next month since the conferences are only involved some few people that hold power. Seems like what happen there

has no relevancy with our life.

Thus, people might think that only several people do diplomacy. They might not think like that if they know

there’s a diplomacy which involves everyone as the ac-tor of diplomacy. It is cultural diplomacy.

We are all involved in take and give process that hope-fully creates mutual understanding.

Arya Satya Nugraha

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LISTof CONTENTS

3 A Note From ISAFIS’ President: Pop Culture and Diplomacy

5Issues of The Month: cultural diplomacy

9 I Know Now! : MEngenal lebih dalam World music

11 I Review (Book): Batik Belanda 1840-1940

13 I Review (Film): cinema verite

15 I Speak: Asean community and the dilema of democracy

This Newsletter is published under the division of Research and Development ofIndonesian Students Association for International Studies (ISAFIS).

ISAFIS’ Board consists of:

Lukman Oesman- President. Lusia Novitasari- Vice President. Melia Halim- Secretary

General. Cherieta Hasea- Treasurer. M. Arif- Director of Research and DevelopmentThe Newsletter team consists of:

Arya Satya Nugraha- Editor and Lay Out Designer. Chaula Rininta, Febrina Zulmi, Rizki Amelia: Writers

17 I Chievement: representing indonesia through cultural mission

19 I Update: jmun 2012 at a glance

Recently a numerous of Korean Boybands

are coming to Indonesia. Entertaining their die hard fans who desperately had paid an enormous amount

of money for that. Super Junior, Big Bang, you named it, they all paid a visit to the capital. Fans were rushing in for buying the tickets and

left thousands more fans unable to see directly their Korean idol.

You might think this as a simple and not really important cases. Moreover it is common to think that it has nothing to do with diplomacy or international relations at large.

But seriously, what exactly the relation between the so called K-Pop or K-Fever with diplomacy? Does K-Pop can be examined from the point of view of diplomacy?

It can be that serious, isn’t it?

Well, quite opposite from these believes, it turns out plenty of aspects from K-Pop really have it’s relations with diplomacy. Korea’s government for instance, has created an index called Korean Wave Index to calcu-late the impact of K-Pop spreading all over the world. The Korea’s government even had already acknowl-edged their K-Pop industries as one of their meant in diplomacy.

As another example, the very existence of @america, a cultural center of America in one of the biggest mall in Jakarta by America’s Embassy has drawn a lot of attentions from youth in Jakarta. Ranging from a baseball coach to NCIS agents exhibiting their cultures, this new places has really enhancing America’s pop culture fame in Indonesia.

So, there are absolutely many reasons to explain why many governments around the world taking their pop culture seriously. But once again the questions remains, why?

This edition of ISAFIS Newsletter is also being driven by those curiousities. We are ea-ger to try discussing all of the aspects and later on find out the reasons why pop

culture playing an important role in today’s diplomacy.

So please enjoy to read our latest edition, hope you like it.

A Note from

Isafis' President

Lukman Oesman,

President of ISAFIS

2011/ 2012

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While the conventional nation branding only takes place in international forum-where

only the top of the policy makers can make it there- the cultural based nation branding

can occur wherever and whenever. Best of all, it allows everyone to have a role, from athletes, art-

ists, authors, media workers, or even common people.

Acceptability is a key factor that supports the cultural transmission. Both nations and societies can-

not be coerced when it comes to embrace new and strange values that different from the previous

ones. Adjustment comes as a solution. Before deciding to transmit its cultural materials as an effort to

enhance the branding of the nation, a country has to be so sure that they have the right formula of

cultural materials to be transmitted to destination countries, just like what South Korea did.

In 1990s South Korea might just another East Asia country even for Asians; we knew them for

almost nothing. It didn’t take much time for them to penetrate the world with their culture, in less than

20 years they have become one of the world’s biggest pop culture power house. The term of Ko-

rean Wave or Hallyu is familiarly known as a specific term to call the South Korean cultural invasion.

Cultural diplomacy is not just defined as a country exports their cultural materials to the others or

vice versa. Beyond the cultural exchange between countries involved in that kind of diplomacy,

there is a thing that way more important. It is nation branding-an attempt that a country does to en-

hance, measure and manage their image- which in this case is built by the flow of cultural materials

such as movies, music, books and etc.

Cultural diplomacy:It’s more than just

a cultural materials exchange, it is a nation branding

By: Arya Satya Nugraha

The pop culture itself is only a catalyst for world’s societies to be familiar with Korea- as a country-

and Korean cultural heritage. As they madly in love for K-Pop (Korean music) and Korean Dramas,

Diehard fans of Korea fans will be more loyal to everything that is related to Korea, everything that

has “Korean” in its name or imported from Korea becomes worth-buying. In tourism, Korea Herald

said that the number of tourists has topped over 7 Millions.

What South Korea did might be impossible in a time when United States dominated the world with

their so called international culture like Hollywood movies and MTV. However as South Korean

knew the strength that they possessed and had some drive to learn they could start to build their

branding through the culture. By its systematic and professional nation branding -that applies com-

mercial brand management- Korean has already proved to the world that they can effectively use

cultural invasion to promote and to introduce the country to the world.

Lessons learned!, but will Indonesia- as a self-proclaimed cultural diversity owner- follow the path of

South Korea?. Considering how fast the creative industry grows in Indonesia, it is more than possible

for us to do what Korea did. Bear in mind that cultural diplomacy is not a one way flow, it is a give

and take process. Every actor- who is involved- stands a chance to introduce their culture and more

importantly to do the nation branding through cultural materials exchange.

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Bear in mind that cultural diplomacy is not a one way

flow, it is a give and take process.

Issues of The Month

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We never can imagine about the expantion of Korean movie to the whole Asia. We never guess that one of the Super Junior song, titled Sorry Sorry will be on our Ipad, or at least at our list track of songs on certain device. Between the pictures

on certain online shop, exactly there always be Korean fashion style. So, how these pattern can be so easily identifying that it is Korea?

We all know very well about certain simple thing about Korea. Since the first drama of Korea, Full House was on private television channel in Indonesia, at 2005, approximately seven years ago, the expansion of cultural things from Korea to all over the world is more progressive. Clearly, everyone gets the influence of Korean Wave, a short and simple sentence to represent the situation.

Everywhere, we can see someone sending the tweet on Twitter, mentioning the personnel of certain boyband or girlband they adore. We are so familiar with Wonder Girl, Super Junior, SNSD, and also may be 2PM. Besides, we also understand certain Korean drama, let say, Full House, Lie to Me, Prin-cess Hours, Boys Before Flowers, or City Hunter. Both the drama and the boy or girl band from Korea

are very unique and they become the cultural identity of Korea.

Speaking the Korean drama, it has values and also shared- culture as the different point for this coun-try. If we can see the details of the drama or the movie, we can have the exact argument that it really represent all the culture in Korea. I also can see the bottom line of the drama, it has to be a medium to inform and giving a description about whole Korea, the scenery, the people, the technology, the lifestyle, the fashion, the civilization, the tribe, the culture, the music, and also the attitude. They all are combined together as a unity to give the audience a description about Korea. I can give an example, in most of the Korean drama, the cell- phone they usually use are Samsung, which is made in Korea; the other one is, when we watch certain drama, we will see certain special building that can be identified as Korean’s, they always put certain tourism object of their country to promote it to the audi-ence. We simply can guess certain drama only by the soundtrack of the drama. The plot of the certain drama can be completed by the scene where the actor goes to America, France or the other country in Europe. It is because, they want their movie is also be watched by American people or European people. The content of the drama includes the attitude of Korean people that has high- culture and placing the honorable behavior for the adults and parents.

These pattern of Korean Wave are quite well done to expand their culture. They also can manage every single detail of packaging the culture. From the boyband and girlband, we can see the ability of the singers to amuse the audience, they have great discipline, professionality and also loyality. Can we, the heritage of Indonesia, like Wayang, Reog, be so famous and enjoyable for the people in Indonesia and also abroad like what Korea has done?

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World Music mungkin terdengar terlalu global dan juga multitafsir bagi se-

bagian orang. Kebanyakan orang berpikir bahwa world music adalah is-

tilah yang digunakan untuk mereferensi kepada semua genre music yang

ada. Namun sebenarnya secara spesifik apa world music itu? Definisi World Music menurut kamus Collins

English Dictionary yang diterbitkan oleh Harper Collins Publishers berarti “Popular music of various ethnic

origins and styles outside the tradition of western pop and rock music: atau musik populer yang berasal-

usul etnis, dengan gaya dan jenis diluar tradisi pop Barat dan musik rock. Secara harafiah, world music

juga bisa diartikan sebagai “musik dunia”. Disisi lain ada juga yang berpendapat bahwa World Music

merupakan sebutan untuk musik tradisional dan folk yang dimainkan oleh musisi asli dari daerah tertentu

dimana gaya mereka dalam bermusik sangat erat kaitannya dengan budaya asli dari daerah tersebut.

World music mulai dikenalkan oleh Robert E. Brown, seorang etnomusikologi pada ta-

hun ‘60-an, namun world music sebagai pengklasifikasian musik non-western baru mulai dike-

nal pada era ’80-an. Dapat dikatakan bahwa saat ini world music berkembang sangat pesat

terlebih lagi dengan terbentuknya interaksi antar berbagai penduduk di berbagai belahan du-

nia. Para musisi kerap menggabungkan genre music mereka dengan musik-musik etnik atau tradis-

ional. Dengan adanya interaksi dalam dunia musik itu sendiri membuat world music menjadi ses-

uatu yang sangat menarik untuk dipelajari dan dapat ditemukan di berbagai akademi dan

sampai masuk ke dalam mata kuliah bersamaan dengan etnomusikologi. Ajang penghargaan

bagi para musisi world music pun juga turut dihelat secara rutin, yakni dalam World Music Awards.

Dalam memperkenalkan world music saat ini menjadi sangat mudah terlebih lagi dengan

teknologi internet dan juga situs-situs berbasis musik seperti lastfm, 8tracks, reverbNation, dan

soundcloud. Dengan metode penggunaan situs musik tersebut kita dapat dengan mudah menemu-

kan musisi-musisi yang berbasiskan world music. Musisi-musisi Indonesia pun mulai memperkenalkan

world music dalam setiap karyanya. Beberapa musisi terkenal seperti Dewa Budjana, Balawan,

Dwiki Darmawan, dan Vicky Sianipar. World music yang mereka suguhkan merupakan hasil kolab-

orasi antara musik etnik dan musik-musik genre rock, jazz, dan pop. Para musisi world music tidak

pernah membuat suatu karya musik yang bisa dibilang mainstream. Mereka mencoba berinovasi

dan menggunakan alat musik daerah untuk menghasilkan suatu karya baru yang tidak terpikirkan

oleh orang lain.

mengenal lebih dalam

world musicBy: Chaula Rininta

9 10Picture Source: musicemory.edu

I Know Now !

Many Dutchwomen were interested in making batik in Pekalongan during the

period of Dutch regime in Indonesia. They were no longer comfortable with

wearing lace thick clothes or gowns like what they used to wear in their

mother country due to the tropical climate in Indonesia. So, they chose to wear such kind of batik or

kebaya in the same way as indigenous people there.

The impression of wearing batik, cool and comfortable, got the Dutchwomen making batik in

their own style by presenting some European ornaments on it. There were pictures of aircraft, Dutch

soldier, vessel, princesses adopted from Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and Hansel & Gretel sto-

ries on Dutchwomen-made batik. For the process of coloring batik, they used natural dyes like what

the indigenous people used but then, they changed them into the synthetic ones due to production

demand.

There were some similarities and differences between Dutch batik motif and Javanese batik

motif. The similarities were the filler pattern on the Dutch batik that tended to be similar to the Java-

nese batik and Isen-isen (part of decorated style on batik) on the Dutch batik that looked same as

the Javanese batik. Meanwhile, the differences were the size of the Dutch batik which was wider

about 110 cm; the fabric quality of the Dutch batik which was better due to the imported fabric from

India; the decorated style on batik; and the function of batik itself, batik as a fashion (for Dutch-

women) and batik as a need of clothing (for Javanese women). All in all, there was more or less Dutch

influence in innovation for Javanese batik at that time.

Title of Book : Batik Belanda 1840 - 1940 (Dutch Influence in Batik from Java

History and Stories)

Author : Harmen C Veldhuisen

Publisher : Group Femina

Genre : Culture

Text : English

ISBN : 9789795152507

Batik

is not Only Loved by

Indonesian

Besides telling us about the Dutch

influence in batik from Java (especially

from Pekalongan), this book also brings

the history and stories along. There were

stories of Ny. B. Fisher, Ny. S.W. Ferns,

Ny. R. Scharff van Dop, Nona J. Toorop,

Ny. Dunhuyzen, Ny. C.H. Meyer, Ny.

J.A. de Witt, Ny. A.J.F. Jans, and Nona

A. Wollweber as Dutch batik entrepre-

neurs. Each story is completed by pic-

tures of the Dutchwoman batik entrepre-

neur and her-made batik. So, this book

is highly recommended for those who

are interested in knowing more about

batik as one of our prestigious cultural

heritages deeply.

By: Febrina Zulmi

11 12II Review

Long before the Kardashians and the Osbournes revealed their daily life on TV,

in 1971 the Louds had made a bold decision to let cameras rolled inside their

Santa Barbara’s house. They gave the world a chance to see a life of an Amer-

ican family. After 7 months of filming which resulted 300 hours non-stop of the Louds’ raw footage,

the reality show- named An American Family- began to air in 1973 and had been acclaimed as

the pioneer of TV reality that we know today.

Though earning the 32nd place in TV Guide’s 50 Greatest Show of All time, An American

Family also got massive criticism for the content that emphasized the scandalous side of an upper

middle family in US. For the 70’s standards. An American Family brought unconventional issues and

family’s problems like too-liberal mom or a boy who came out of closet. Those made the Louds

involved in love-hate relationship with US society, viewers fed up with the Louds but on the other

hand they craved for more episodes.

cinema verite: Behind USA 1st tv reality

By: Arya Satya Nugraha

If you’re desperately curious to watch the original An American Family, I tell you that it is

quite hard to find those ones. Yet, you can watch 2011 Cinema Verite that pretty much summed up

the 12 episodes of An American Family in 86 minutes documentary drama.

Cinema Verite was made- to commemorate the 40th anniversary of An American Family- by

two New York awards winning filmmakers, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pucini . It depicted

behind-the-screen scenes of the 1971 An American Family. Cinema Verite itself means a style of

documentary film making that combines naturalistic techniques and stylized cinematic devices.

The docudrama begins with the scene of a Santa Barbara socialite mom named Pat Loud

(Diane Lane) met a New York TV Producer -Craig Gilbert (James Gandolini)- to discuss Craig’s idea

to filming day-to-day the Louds activities. Pat seemed into Craig’s idea, so she throw the idea to

her 5 kids and husband who surprisingly in favor of Craig too.

The filming run smoothly until Pat realized that Gilbert started to trespass and exploit her

family for the sake of money. Craig’s primary intention- to depict an ideal American family on TV-

began to shift while he knew that Pat’s husband- Bill Loud (Tim Robbins)- cheated on Pat. Amid of

the pressure to create high-ratting reality TV, Craig reckoned that the potential dramatic domestic

problem between Pat and Bill could elevate the ratting. That left Pat in difficult situation, she had

been enough with Bill’s infidelity and wanted a separation while at the same time she couldn’t ask

Bill to move out since the cameras were rolling 24/7 in The Louds’ house.

Cinema Verite smartly portrayed how media can misuse their power to gain as much profit

as they want without even really care the effects

of what they did to society. Soon as The American

Family aired nationally, the life of all Loud family

members changed forever. They were invited to

numerous talk shows and became the most talked-

about family back then, not for the achievement but

for the embarrassing domestic issues that spilt to

public.

All comes with a price, Pat Loud never ex-

pected that her decision to let some cameras move

in to her house can cost her family a public humilia-

tion.

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II Review

With only three year left to-ward the ASEAN Commmu-nity, ASEAN has came with

a high level of confidence among it’s member states governments. Actually the decision to fasten the implementation of ASEAN Commu-nity itself from 2020 to 2015 had highlighted the level of confidence.

Unfortunately it isn’t the feeling that the gov-ernments actually shares with the people of ASEAN. In fact many have found it problem-atic with the prospect of having a very close interactions with people coming from other ASEAN member states. ASEAN People are still oftenly found themselves felt threatened by other ASEAN people. The sense of com-munity is not yet filling people’s mind when it comes to ASEAN.

It seems that ASEAN still being viewed as a government-to-government cooperations rather than people-to-people engagement by the majority of ASEAN people. The con-cept of ASEAN Community then seemed to be a strange idea among ASEAN people. No wonder the majority of Southeast Asia’s populations is still being alienated throughout the process to 2015

Therefore a concept in which the ASEAN pro-cess will not leave it’s people behind is now being advocated throughout Southeast Asia. The concept of people-centered ASEAN is now raising and has dominating many debate surrounding the progress toward ASEAN Community 2015. Civil society as the main ac-tor of this concept at least has showing their big intentions and willingness in enhancing the people to people relations by holding some annual events like ASEAN People’s Forum.

However, the concept of people-centered ASEAN and the future of having a single community in this vast growing region, has it’s main villain even inside the principle in which

ASEAN government oftenly rellied on. Its the non-interference principle that basi-cally has put the idea of people-centered ASEAN in a threat.

With this principle, a more people-centered ASEAN will be eventually constrained. The reason for this rellies on the very basic idea about people-centered ASEAN itself, which is democracy.

Democracy simply need the openness of a society, especially in terms of tranparency and accountability of it’s government to their people. This basic principle is working in line with the concept of people-centered ASEAN. An emphasis on people’s partici-pations in determining the political process toward ASEAN Community and the inclu-sion of their active involvement on their government’s policy toward ASEAN.

The non-interference principle, however, has restricting the very basic of this con-cept. Its all because the lack of guarantee for every ASEAN member states to adopt democracy with this principle. ASEAN or the other ASEAN member states whose al-ready practicing democracy then will find it difficult in pushing other states to practicing democracy and eventually making democ-racy prevail in Southeast Asia.

Trace it back since the beginning of ASEAN itself, non-inteference principle has it’s background back to the era when most ASEAN countries especially the first five members was practically an non-democrat-ic countries. Ruling by the regimes whose only pay attentions on political stability and economic developments, democracy was something what they thought as their com-mon enemy.

These regimes was described by Hee-Yeon Cho as the authoritarian developmental

mobilization regime. This means the regimes that inherit ASEAN to us today and it’s non-interference principle was the kind of regimes with strong state initiatives in mobilizing the whole society in their respective country. Then it would be enough to understand why they are so sensitive with interventions especially when it comes to democracy.

However, since the people’s power movement managed to overthrow Marcos’ regime in Philip-pines and the Reformasi action in Indonesia succeded in toppled Soeharto from the presi-dential seat, followed by other democratization efforts in Southeast Asia nations, the situations has transformed into what ASEAN never expe-rienced before. Democracy emerges as one of the political systems that is being practiced in Southeast Asia and moreover the system now is being adopted by more than half of ASEAN population. This transformation has resulted many aspirations to adopt democracy as the core values in any policy regarding ASEAN has been advocated since then. Quoting from Kishore Mahbubani then, democracy has emerged as the only solutions for any govern-ment in Southeast Asia to turn ASEAN to be a more influential regional power.

Democracy and the people-centered ASEAN eventually will need the non-interference princi-ple to be reviewed. Political intervention in many ways is absolutely what every nations should oppose but to build a community, a better com-munication in particular regarding political com-munication, need to be enhanced and involving the people as well as the government. A com-mon and shared values then will be imperative in reaching this objective.

ASEAN Community

&

The Dilema

of Democracy

there’s an era when most ASEAN countries especially the first five

members was practically an non-democratic countries.

by: Lukman Oesman

II Speak

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Writing about culture, I have to overwrite the specification of the culture. Traditionally, culture is related with a pattern that can be signifier of the human activity manifested by the music, arts, sculpture,theatre, film, fashion, food, dance, design and architecture. These will provide cultural objects, which can sym-bolize a shared schematic experience, which we recognize them as having cultural value. It is like biological culture that contains nutrient rich and diverse in its concentration the medium.

Speaking culture, especially about dance, the field includes the creation, practice, observation, and also the analysis of certain theatrical, social and also culturally dance forms for both of contemporary and historical. The spesific keys are three, they are choreographic, the developmental processes, and the technical disciplines. Cultural body behaviors are the identity from which we can define the ori-gin place of the dance forms are made. A culture’s values are embodied in their dance forms, even for most civilizations of the world claim that dance is one of the most necessary expressions of their world- view.

People love to watch the performance of certain dance concert, musical concert, or fashion exhibition. Unconsciously, certain performance has occupied our attention. For example, when we are watching a dancer on the stage doing the extreme movement, wheeling, flying, the we will be amazed. Certain story of art gives big impact for the audience.

I was on my fully- dream when i can give such an amazing performance to the people outside my country. Totally, i am not in a doubtfulness to give certain explanation about the background story of the dance, of the costumes, or also the music. My biggest pleasure, is when they gave such an incredible applause when we performed Saman Dance. How can i forget such a beautiful memory?

The pattern is that when you give your best, they will give their best appreciation. It did work. When we arrange something, in a good way, it is worth watching! Albert Camus said, without culture and relative freedom it implies, society even when perfect, is but a jungle. That is why any authentic crea-tion is a gift to the future. Yes, it is. I always can go along with this kind of saying. As far as culture can preserve kind of methode and kind of rule. Kind of identity and also uniqueness. It was a creation that tent to be a super- gift from the past.

Like the dance, the music, the movement, it connects each other then be a good composition that ready to perform, to be watched, to be listened to. It was kind of heritage from the oldest. I was super excited to challenge every new stage in different cities, because the atmosphere, the culture and the way they welcome us are different. We actually love each welcoming party they held for us. Mingle with the other contingents from the other countries, learning the tradition of certain dance together, bartering stuffs with the other contingents, until having a chat via skype and the other social media. It supposed to be the novelty which bring new excitement for the people comes from diverse countries.

The other principal thing we have to note in having a cultural diplomacy is that, once you try, then you will be addicted. Cause once you do, the desire to reclaim a more long lasting cultural integrity and also a return to a type of cultural fundamentalism will be bigger than you have thought. I simply can not deny it. The desire grow up, day by day, bigger than what i have thought. These are shared- val-ues, creating new identities and make yourself proud of your country. There is a silver lining between culture and diplomacy. We bring our identities and then we perform as nation we represent, then voila Indonesia, je t’aime!

The breeze air at the afternoon, 24th of July 2011 was really exciting. It is not because it was Saturday, nor week- end, but because the mission has already started. What was

actually this mission?

I was glad to realize that people around me that time gave their best support to me and the other 31 people that also joined this mission. As a foreword, this is a trip, a story, an experience of spreading the beauty of Indonesia, especially the folk dance and music. Indeed, it is a cultural mission of Komunitas Tari FISIP Universitas Indonesia in Festi-vals Du Sud 2011 to Spain, France and Portugal for about one and a half month. Folklore festival is a forum for young leaders, building the network of the students and also young professionals that are really interested into cultural diplomacy by using the exploration of art. We should know and think about our own activities in art, music, interna-tional relations, may be the cultural studies combined with diplomacy,. It’s all in this together. How a kind of bridge can connect each other is somehow unpredictable but it encourages us to conduct a research and organize our own activity in the field.

representing indonesia through

cultural mission

A huge fondness in traditional culture of our fellow Isafisian,

Rizki Amelia, has brought here to Europe. She joined inter-nationak dancing festival back in 2011. Read her story to know

her wondrous experience

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Almost 200 students involved in Jakarta Model United Nations (JMUN) 2012. The topic of the conference was as hot as the

debate happened inside the council!

1 In the cultural night, that was held at Mu seum Nasional, a delegate performed

javanese Dangdut.

2 Some delegates, including from Malaya-sia, performed Tanah Airku

3 Say Cheese!, Delegates took photos in front of animal’s cage in Ragunan Zoo

4This was not political demonstration, it was a flash mob. Held in Plaza Festival,

Kuningan.

5 Delegate from Laos planted a tree in Ragunan Zoo.

6Another shot from the flash mob!

7Hopeful participants of Green Business Competition were waiting their turn to

present their extraordinary business idea.

8At the end.... what sum up JMUN at it’s best

at a glance !Jakarta Model United Nations 2012

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