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INFRASTRUCTURETo Accelerate Development of Floating Airport, AP I Plants Thousands of Mangroves in A. Yani Area

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TOURISM

Tourism Minister Arief Yahya Inaugurates Two Homestays in Sigapiton

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South Korea Interested in Investing in LRT Project

We are allocating a big fund for infrastructure financing in the developing countries.”

President Joko Widodo

“Two-state solu-tion is the only so-lution with East Jerusalem as the capital of Pales-tine”

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Jokowi Completes 26 Strategic Projects until December 2017

Chairman of Executor Team of the Priority Infrastructure Ac-celeration Committee (KPPIP) Wahyu Utomo said the six com-pleted projects in 2017 are Tan-jung Priok Access Road, PLBN (border post) of Nanga Badauin Kapuas Hulu Regency, PLBN of Arukin Sambas Regency, PLBN of Winiin North Central Timor-Regency, Soreang-Pasirkoja toll road and the Surabaya-Mo-jokerto toll road, with a total value of Rp13.1 trillion.

Additionally, there are 145 projects and one program that have entered the construction

phase, 9 projects in the trans-action stage while 86 projects and one program in the pre-paration phase. Out of the 145 projects under construction, 37 projects are partially operation-al.

For example, the Medan-Kualanamu-Lubuk Pakam-Tebing Tinggi toll road, Bekasi-Cawang-Kampung Melayu toll road, KEK (special economic zone) Tanjung Lesung and KEK Mandalika.

“The projects that we have partially operated are counted as projects in the construction

phase because they are not yet fully operational,” said Wahyu at the Penang Bistro, Jakarta, on Wednesday (12/20).

Meanwhile, the achieve-ments for the 35,000 MW elec-tricity provision program per December 2017 comprise 998 MW (3%) already operational; 15,676 MW (44%) in the cons-truction phase; 13,782 MW (38%) have completed the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) but yet to reach financial closure; 3,163 MW (9%) in the procure-ment stage and 2,228 MW (6%) in the planning phase.

For the 37 priority projects, 20 projects have entered the construction phase, five pro-jects are in the transaction pro-cess, and 12 projects are still in the preparation stage as of De-cember 2017.

The Balikpapan-Samarinda-toll road project, the MRT Ja-karta North-South Corridor, the Palapa Ring Broadband, the Batang Power Plant, and the Tangguh LNG Train 3 are some of the priority projects in the construction stage.

Some priority infrastructure projects that have been partial-

as saying by the press release from Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs on Wednesday (12/20).

According to her, South Ko-rea has successfully done the construction of fast train by adapting the French technolo-gy.

Kim said that her country is currently allocating more funds

South Korea has expressed its interest to invest in the cons-truction of Jabodebek Light Rail Transit (LRT).

Minister of Land, Infrastruc-ture and Transport of South Korea Kim Hyunmee said that while meeting Coordinat-ing Minister for Maritime Af-fairs Luhut Binsar Panjaitan in Seoul on Tuesday (12/19).

Minister Kim said her coun-try has committed to parti-cipate in financing the LRT phase two and three, but she also expected the investment certainty.

“South Korea is very inter-ested in participating in the tender for the rolling stock of LRT.Our product is already glo-bally famous,” Kim was quoted

3 Years of Jokowi-JK Tenure, Indonesia’s Investments Up 3-Fold

Three international in-stitutions of Fitch Ratings, Moody’s, and Standard and Poor’s (S&P) were con-vinced by the Jokowi-JK government to improve the investment grade rating for Indonesia.

Head of Investment Co-ordinating Board (BKPM) Thomas Lembong said the achievement is something to be proud of, because it is the first time in the last 20 years ago.

Thanks to the increas-ing rating, the investments flowing to Indonesia have jumped up triple and keep growing.

However, Thomas said the government still has a lot of things to do regarding the investment regulation.

According to him, there

are still 43,000 rules relat-ed to investment that some-times become complicated. As a result, some investor-shave canceled their invest-ment plants.

Although there are still some short comings, the investment sector should be admitted having shown progress in the 3 years of Jokowi-JK tenure.

The investment contribu-tion to the GDP rose from 31.7 percent to 32.6 per-cent. The Gross Fixed Ca-pital Formation (PMTB) grew 5.8 percent or above the economic growth.

Additionally, 124 licens-es, which previously han-dled by ministries and agencies, have been dele-gated to the BKPM and can be done online through the One Stop Services (PTSP). BKPM also provides a 3-hour service for the in-vestment licensing. (TRB/TPP)

ly operated are the Medan-Bin-jai toll road and the Palembang-Indralaya toll road. The priority projects targeted to operate in 2018 are the Pekanbaru-Kan-dis-Dumai toll road, the Makas-sar-Parepare railway and the Palapa Ring Broadband.

The projection for the prog-ress of PSN until 2020 is 170 projects will have been opera-tional (either partially or fully), consisting of additional 50 pro-jects will be operated in 2018, while other 56 projectsin 2019, and 23 projects more in 2020. (SND/TPP)

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The government until December 19, 2017 has completed 26 national strategic projects (PSN), consisting of 20 projects completed in 2016 and 6 projects completed in 2017 with a total investment worth Rp46.5 trillion.

for infrastructure investments abroad. She added that along with the current global trend, South Korean government is now very actively investing in the infrastructure.

“We are allocating a big fund for infrastructure financ-ing in the developing countries.This year we raised the fund to US$500 billion. From that amount, US$100 billion of the fund is allocated for the ASEAN countries,” she said.

In the meantime,Luhut wel-comed and promised to notify her when the tender is opened.

He said foreign investment is needed, given the state budget is not sufficient to finance the infrastructure projects in Indo-nesia. (TRB/TPP)

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Defending Palestine at OIC Summit, Jokowi Suggests 6 Steps

Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) suggested six moves in defending Pales-tine at the extraordinary sum-mit of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul, Turkey, on Wednesday (12/13) while delivering his speech.

President Jokowi was firm-ly against US President Do nald Trump’s unilateral decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

“The recognition is un-acceptable. Once again, Pre-sident Trump’s recognition is unacceptable and must be strongly condemned,” he said.

He called on all OIC coun-tries to unite and set aside any differences to defend the Pales-tine.

“The issue of Palestine should bring us back together.

We rounded up the voice and unity to defend the Palestine,” said the Indonesian leader.

According to him, President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Is-rael not only hurt Muslims, but also hurts the sense of justice of mankind.

“The hope for independence is shunned by this very un-just decision. The decision di-minishes the hope of a lasting peace. Therefore, the decision must be rejected,” said Jokowi.

President Jokowi further said the US unilateral decision also violates various UN Se-curity Council Resolutions re-lated to Palestine. Therefore, Jokowi re-affirmed his rejec-tion.

“The people of Indonesia and I believe the people of OIC

countries expect much from this summit. They hope that this summit can produce opti-mal and actionable results; the results whose impact can be felt for the future of Palestine,” he said.

He then suggested six moves to be taken by the OIC member countries.

“First, the OIC must re-ject the unilateral recogni-tion. Two-state solution is the only solution with East Jerusa-lem as the capital of Palestine,” said President Jokowi.

Second, he calls on all coun-tries who have embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, to not follow the US decision by moving it to Jeru-salem.

“Third, the OIC must per-suade the countries have yet to recognize Palestinian indepen-

dence to do so immediately,” he said.

Fourth, the OIC member countries who have relations with Israel should take di-plomatic steps. “Including the possibility of reviewing the re-lations with Israel in accor-dance with various OIC Reso-lutions,” the president added.

“Fifth, the OIC members should take steps together to increase humanitarian aids, improve the capacity and eco-nomic cooperation with the Palestinians,” Jokowi said.

Sixth, the president said the OIC become should be-come a motor for the movement in va rious international and multila teral forums to sup-port the Palestinians, includ-ing in the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly.

Jokowi Expects Komodo Bond to Attract Foreign Investors to Invest in RI

Jokowi Calls on Millennial Generation to Grab US$130 M Investment Opportunities

State-owned highway company PT Jasa Marga (Persero) listed its first global bond with nominal in rupiah called the Komodo Bond on the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday (12/13). This is one of the efforts to find new funding sources to fi-nance the infrastructure de-velopment in Indonesia.

PT Jasa Marga becomes the first Indonesian state-owned enterprise (SOE) who has listed its bond, worth Rp4 trillion, on the interna-tional securities market.

“The bond issuance adds to the liquidity access. This also proves that the interna-tional investors have a high interest in investing in Indo-nesia,” said President Jokowi after attending the OIC

President Joko Widodo has called on the young or millen-nial generation to take advan-tage of the current technolog-ical and market development. According to Jokowi, the in-vestments in the digital econ-omy in the next five years will reach US$130 billion or approximately Rp1.75 tril-lion (with exchange rate at Rp13.500 per US dollar).

“In the next five years there are US$130 billion in-vestment opportunities in our country (digital econo-my). It’s huge, how much in rupiah? These opportuni-ties should be taken as soon as possible,” Jokowi said in Sabuga, Bandung, on Mon-day (12/18).

He further said that time has changed, and the digital economy now becomes a po-tential that must be utilized as much as possible.

Currently a company is no longer measured only from the number of employees, of-fice building and other fixed assets, but also its brand va-lue.

Jokowi then compared his furniture business that he

Jokowi Shows Off First Wind Power Plant in RI

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) continues encourag-ing the use of new renewable energy, given the fossil energy reserves are running out. Be-sides, the carbon emission of fossil energy is also too high.

Various power plants us-ing renewable energy sourc-es such as geothermal, solar, and wind continue to be built by the government.

Regarding the wind po wer generation, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has proud-ly showed off the giant project of the first Wind Power Plant (PLTB) in Indonesia.

In his official Facebook ac-count, Jokowi said that Indo-nesia is one of few countries in Asia who have a wind farm aside of Japan, China and Korea.

President Jokowi’s full writing on Saturday (12/2) is as follows:

Dozens of white poles are lined up on the backs of the hills in the Mattirotasi Vil-lage and Lainungan Village, Watangpulu, Sidenreng Rap-pang Regency, in the middle of South Sulawesi, about 200 kilometers from Makassar. The rows are so prominent,

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gigantic: 80 meters high. On the tip of the steel pole, a large pro-peller is mounted. Its diameter is 57 meters, so the total height reaches 137 meters.

Yes, they are the gigantic wind turbines of the first Wind Power Plant (PLTB) in Indonesia. On the hills, 30 wind turbines are being installed with a capacity of 2.5 megawatt each or 75 MW in total.

Sidrap mountainous area has a good wind potential with an es-timated speed of about seven me-ters per second that is suitable to drive the propellers of the tur-bines.

Built since April 2016 by PT UPC Sidrap Bayu Energi with an investment of US$150 mil-lion, the PLTB will be operat-ed commercially next year. The Sidrap PLTB is capable to supply the electricity to approximate-ly 80,000 households of 900 VA customers.

In addition to Sidrap PLTB, we are also developing Jenepon-to PLTB, still in South Sulawesi, which involves an investor from Denmark. The potential of wind energy in this country is about 60.6 GW. The government en-courages the use of renewable energy sources of water, geother-mal, and wind. (LPT/TPP)

Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, on Thursday (12/14).

Jokowi said he hoped the Ko-modo Bond will attract the for-eign investors to invest in Indo-nesia. Thus, the infrastructure development can be accele rated, while creating more employ-ment in Indonesia and intro-duce rupiah currency to the in-ternational investors.

“Besides it also opens the ac-cess to the new funding sourc-es to finance the infrastructure development,” he said.

The bond is named Komodo after the typical indigenous In-donesian animal in East Nusa Tenggara. The naming of the bonds imitates the local curren-cy bonds issued by other coun-tries such as China’s Dim Sum Bond and India’s Masala Bond. (TPP)

has developed since 27 years ago with the digital business compa-nies like Tokopedia and Amar-tha whose operations run less than half of the period.

“They have a brand value of billions. Mine I think is less than Rp30 billion. This is an oppor-tunity for the young people to plunge into the digital economy, because it provides a great op-portunity,” he said.

Citing the World Bank, Jokowi added, a country will have a good economic condition if four percent of the population are en-trepreneurs. Currently, Indone-sia now has only 3.3 percent en-trepreneurs.

“A very big opportunity is wide open here, but using in a new way not old school like I used to do,” said the former mayor of Solo.

Jokowi also said that starting a business is not easy. Failure always overshadows every entre-preneur. However, he urged the younger generation to not give up easily.

“The most important thing is first, change the paradigm after graduating from college. Don’t all of you have a dream to become an employee,” he added.(TPP)

Vice President JK Presents

Proper Award 2017

The award aims to encour-age the companies to develop innovations in managing the environment, which generate novelty elements, positive im-pacts, economic benefits, and value-added for employees, consumers and society.

The Proper 2017 classified the companies into the ranks of gold (19 companies), green (150 companies), blue (4,486 companies), red (130 compa-nies) and black (1 company). The Proper gold and green were handed by the Vice Pre-sident and the Minister of En-vironment and Forestry.

The gold award went to PT Badak NGL-Migas LNG/LPG; PT Bio Farma (Perse-ro); PT Pertamina (Persero) Marketing Operation Region IV TBBM Rewulu; PT Medco

E & P Indonesia Rimmau As-set Oil and Gas EP; PT Per-tamina Geothermal Energy; PT Bukit Assam (Persero) Tbk Tanjung Enim Mining Unit; PT Pertamina Hulu Energy Offshore North West Java Mi-gas, EP; PT PJB Paiton Ge-neration Unit, Energy Power Plant; PT Pertamina EP As-set 5-Field Tarakan; PT Per-tamina Hulu Energy Offshore West Madura; PT Pupuk Kali-mantan Timur; PT Pertamina EP Asset I-Field Rantau; Star Energy Geothermal (Wayang Windu) Ltd; JOB Pertami-na-Talisman Jambi Merang; PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Gold Mining Business Unit Pongkor; PT Pertamina (Per-sero) RU VI Refinery of Ba-longan Oil and Gas; PT Per-tamina (Persero) Marketing

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Operation Region III TBBM Bandung Group; PT Tirta In-vestama Mambal, Bottled Drinking Water, Bali; and PT Pertamina (Persero) Market-ing Operation Region V DPPU Ngurah Rai.

The vice president cong-ratulated the awarded com-panies. The gold and green awards ref lect the companies’ discipline in protecting the environment, he said.

Kalla also urged all compa-nies to keep the environment clean to provide comfort to the companies and commu-nities.

Meanwhile Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya said that Proper has succeeded in improving the company’s innovations. “In 2017 there are 401 inno-

vations made, an increase of 65% from the previous year. From the 401 innovations, 42 have been patented.”

Also attending the event, the students of the Tapal Ba-tas Sebatik Tengah school. This school is one example of corporate innovation done by Pertamina EP Tarakan by giving assistance in the form of learning facilities to 123 students who have limited ac-cess to education.

Other dignitaries attend-ing the event were Vice Pre-sidential Secretary Mohamad Oemar, Special Staff of Vice President for Poverty Eradica-tion and Regional Autonomy Syahrul Udjud, and Special Staff for Communication and Information Husein Abdul-lah. (TPP)

Vice President Jusuf Kalla held the ceremony of awarding the Corporate

Performance Rating Program (Proper) in Environmental Management Year

2017 at the Vice Presidential Palace, Jl. Merdeka Selatan, Central Jakarta, on

Monday (12/18).

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Visiting Jababeka Sports Venues, Menpora: Jababeka Can Become Sports City

Indonesia’s Manufacturing Industry Starts to Rise Again, Here are the Data

Youth and Sports Mi-nister (Menpora) Imam Nahrawi, accompanied by Deputy for Improving Sports Performance Mu-lyana and Director of PT Jababeka Tbk Sutedja Darmono, visited se veral sports venues in the Ja-babeka Sport Center, Ci-karang, West Java, on Tuesday (12/19).

The venues visited by the minister were Muk-ti Wibawa Football Stadi-um, Aquatic Center, UPT Multipurpose Building, and the Golf Residence which includes a swim-ming pool and outbound area.

“This is a follow up of

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Meeting 60 Percent of World Demand, Industry Minister Appreciates Barbie Producer in Indonesia

Industrial Sector Absorbs 1.5 Million Manpower in 2017

Industry Minister Air-langga Hartarto has appreciated PT Mat-tel Indonesia (PTMI) for its success in develop-ing the business for 25 years operation in Indo-nesia.

Minister Airlangga Hartarto remarked the statement while giving a speech on the achieve-ment of PT Mattel Indo-nesia during the event of 25th Anniversary of PTMI in Cikarang, West Java, on Monday (12/4).

“The success is cer-tainly achieved by stra-tegic steps in product in-novation following the market development, the hard works of all direc-tors and employees, the improvement of prod-uct quality and the com-mitment to become the leading producer in the world,” said the minister.

Airlangga added that he also appreciat-ed PTMI in developing the toy industry in In-donesia which has ab-sorbed 10,000 workers. “I am proud that Indo-nesia can become the

The industry in In-donesia has become the largest employ-ment sector in Indone-sia. Throughout 2017, the industrial sector has employed 1.5 mil-lion workers.

According to Indus-try Minister Airlangga Hartarto, the growth of industry this year is quite encouraging. The highest growth oc-curred in five sectors. The first is the industry of basic metal, followed by food and beverages, chemicals and phar-maceuticals, machin-ery and equipment, and transportation.

“The highest growth is the base metal indus-try at 10.6%, followed by food and beverag-es at 9.49%, chemicals and pharmaceuticals at about 8%, machin-ery and equipment at 6.45%, and transporta-tion at 5.63%,” said Air-langga at the National Seminar Industry Out-look 2018, Jakarta, on

The performance of the na-tional manufacturing industry still showed a positive movement in November 2017, driven by in-creased demand from domestic and overseas markets.

The improved condition was seen in the rise of purchasing managers’ index (PMI) to 50.4 in November from 50.1 in October.

The PMI figure was released by Nikkei and Markit after sur-veying some purchasing manag-ers at Indonesian manufacturing companies. A PMI above 50 indi-cates that the manufacturing is expanding, while below 50 sug-gests the manufacturing is in re-cession.

“The greater opportunities from both domestic and export markets need to be optimally uti-lized by the domestic industry players to maintain the momen-

tum of this getting better growth,” said Industry Minister Airlangga Hartarto in a written statement on Sunday (12/10).

He said the government is building various infrastructure facilities and designing regula-tions which will certainly have a positive impact on the business development and the welfare of the society.

“Mutual synergy among the stakeholders is needed to gene-rate inclusive and highly compe-titive industrial development,” Airlangga said.

To achieve the target of nation-al industrial growth, the Industry Ministry has been running six priority programs.

The programs are strengthen-ing the human resource compe-tences through vocational educa-tion that links and matches with

the SMEs and industry, improving the industrial structure through the strengthening of the value chain, the development of export-oriented labor-intensive industries, the development of small- and me-dium-scale industries with digital platforms, the development of na-tural resource-based industries, and the development of industrial estates.

“We continue to focus on encour-aging the development of nation-al industries to be more competi-tive in the global arena,” Airlangga said.

According to him, the industri-al sector provides benefits to the national economy through the in-crease of added value of the domes-tic raw materials, the absorption of local labors, and the foreign ex-change earnings. It also plays an important role as the largest con-tributor to the economic growth in Indonesia.

The Central Bureau of Statis-tics (BPS) reported the non-oil/gas manufacturing industry still gave the largest contribution to the na-tional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the third quarter of 2017, reaching 17.76%.

The contribution is higher than other sectors. Meanwhile, the growth of non-oil/gas manufactur-ing industry in the third quarter of 2017 reached 5.49% or above the economic growth of 5.06%.

The exports of non-oil/gas pro-cessing industry in October 2017 reached US$13.67 billion, up 4.22% compared to September 2017. In comparison with the non-oil/gas exports in October 2016, it increased 17%.

The non-oil/gas exports from January-October 2017 rose 14.32 percent compared to the same peri-od in 2016. The main export desti-nations were China, United States, Japan and European Union. (DTK/TPP)

world’s largest producer of Barbie dolls for sup-plying 60% of the de-mand worldwide.”

Meanwhile, Roy Tan-dean as Vice President of PT Matell Indonesia said the toy industry is still promising in the fu-ture. He also said the toy business has a special large segment of market.

“The Barbie business is still good right now. A lot of kids love the dolls,” Roy said.

According to him, the world market share of toys, especially dolls and toy cars, is still domi-nated by Mattel Inc. as much as 50%.

PT Mattel Indonesia is currently only target-ing the export market, as 100% of the products manufactured in Indo-nesia are sold to Ameri-ca, Europe and Asia.

PT Mattel Indone-sia, known as Barbie producer, will increase the production of Hot Wheels (toy cars) to 150 million pcs in 2018 from currently 50 million pcs. (IND/TPP)

Monday (12/11).He also said that

the contribution of in-dustrial sector to the Gross Domestic Prod-uct (PBD) is higher, re-lated to the increased employment.

“If we look at the contribution of the in-dustry in the struc-ture of GDP, it is still the largest contribu-tor. If combined with its derivatives, the con-tribution is more than 30%. In terms of em-ployment, there is also an increase to almost 1.5 million workers this year,” he added.

Airlangga further said that the growth of non-oil and gas indus-try in 2018 is project-ed to reach 5.67%. The growth will be support-ed by the industries of basic metal, food and beverages, transpor-tation, machinery and equipment, as well as chemicals, pharmaceu-ticals and electronics. (DTK/TPP)

World Bank: Strong-er Investment and Ex-port Growth Continue to Strengthen Indonesia’s Economy. The Indonesian economy continued to ex-pand at a solid pace dur-ing the third quarter of 2017 helped by commodity tail-winds and stronger domes-tic and external demand, ac-cording to the World Bank’s December 2017 Indonesia Economic Quarterly.

Real GDP growth in-creased from 5.0 percent in the second quarter to 5.1 percent in the third quarter of 2017. Investment growth rose to its highest level in

more than four years and foreign direct investment re-corded the largest net inflow in more than seven years. Export and import vo-lumes registered double di-git growth for the first time since 2012.

“In addition to external factors such as higher com-modity prices and stronger global growth, the solid per-formance of the Indonesian economy was also support-ed by a better business en-vironment that is attracting more foreign direct invest-ment, as well as more public capital investments, which is the direct positive impact

World Bank: Stronger Investment and Export Growth Continue to Strengthen Indonesia’s Economy

my meeting with Mr. Dar-mono to see first-hand the sports facilities to be utilized and synergized with the government’s sports programs,” said Minister Imam Nahrawi quoted by merdeka.com as saying.

The minister said he expected Jababeka will become a township with integrated sports facili-ties, since it already has a good stadium, good envi-ronmental facilities, edu-cation, hotels, and dormi-tory for athletes.

“Jababeka can also be developed into a sports city, because athletes need a nice atmosphere

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of fuel subsidies reduction two years ago,” said Rodri-go A. Chaves, World Bank Country Director in Indone-sia. “This reflects the impor-tance for the Government to persevere in implement-ing further ambitious re-forms such as increasing tax collections and continu-ing to rationalize subsidies to accelerate infrastructure and human capital develop-ment.”

There are also signs that private consumption has started to recover. Sales of consumer durables such as car and motorcycles re-bounded, with the latter

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while the government currently does not have an integrated sports cen-ter,” he added.

According to Imam, the Mukti Wibawa Stadium is good already, so it only needs the right mainte-nance. The golf facilities are also considered ade-quate.

“I think in the future, the commitment of Ja-babeka to encourage the students and other young people to play sports will generate professional athletes and golfers,” he said.

Mukti Wibawa Stadi-um became the first stop of the visit of Menpora

jumping double-digits in the third quarter after three years of consecutive con-tractions.

Real GDP growth is pro-jected at 5.1 percent for 2017, accelerating to 5.3 percent in 2018 driven by continued strong investment growth, further recovery in con-sumption, and an increase in government spending.

Effective government spending is also crucial to economic development. More than half of total go-vernment spending across all levels of government in Indonesia is conducted by sub-national governments, with 38 percent managed by district governments and 15 percent by provinces. This substantial allocation of resources to local govern-ments, a product of Indone-sia’s decentralization policy since the early 2000s, re-flects the primary responsi-bilities of local governments to deliver basic services, no-tably health, education and local infrastructure.

Decentralization has in-creased opportunities for lo-cal solutions to local prob-lems. Access to services has improved over the past 15 years of greater decen-tralization, but service de-

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livery outcomes vary wide-ly among local governments. The report, titled Decentra-lization that delivers, exa-mines the wide-ranging performance of local govern-ments and identifies mecha-nisms to help local govern-ments perform better.

“Improving service de-livery by local governments requires working on three i’s: more incentives for bet-ter performance in spend-ing the resources the cen-tral government transfers to districts; more information for citizens and the central government to better mo-nitor local government per-formance, and more inter-action between citizens and businesses and their local governments and service providers to demand better quality,”said Frederico Gil Sander, Lead Economist for the World Bank in Indone-sia.

The launch of the Decem-ber 2017 Indonesia Econo-mic Quarterly is part of Vo-yage to Indonesia, a series of events leading up to the 2018 IMF-World Bank An-nual Meetings in Bali. The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade supports the publication of the report. (WB/TPP)

and his entourage. The stadium which has a ca-pacity of 30,000 specta-tors, according to Men-pora, will be used as one of the 2018 Asian Games venues. He said he ex-pected Inasgoc had come to Jababeka for the syn-chronization of sports venues.

“I can see from the ac-cess issue, it’s good. The location is strategic, sup-ported by various trans-portation modes of train, highway and others. What we need is matur-ing the plan comprehen-sively in including the Jababeka in the sporting events,” he added. (TPP)

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Leaving Off Dollar, RI, Malaysia, Thailand Use Local Money for Transactions

Bank Indonesia (BI), Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), and Bank of Thailand (BoT) have agreed on the local currency settlement framework for the trade transactions among the three countries. The launch of this cooperation is a follow-up to the signing of a bilateral me-morandum of understanding between the central banks of the three neighboring countries.

The three central banks agreed to work together in en-couraging bilateral trades and investments using the local cur-rency settlement framework.

“Malaysia and Thailand are earlier than us. It is better for us to do this (too). So, the ex-port-import transactions in In-donesia will be more diverse, the cost will be more efficient and certainly this will be deep-ening the Indonesian market,” said BI Governor Agus DW. Mar-towardojo, at his office, Jakarta,

on Monday (12/11).With this partnership, Agus

estimated that the use of local currency will double by 2020. “We are targeting within three to five years the number will have doubled. We will monitor and evaluate it,” Agus added.

He also said the cooperation will make the rupiah more sta-ble. Currently almost 94% of In-donesia’s exports are carried out using the United States dollar, while the imports using US dol-lars reach 78%. By diversifying the use of currency in the trans-actions, it is expected to help stabilize the rupiah exchange rate.

“The transactions between two countries do not need a third currency. BI sees the cur-rent stability of the financial system will be maintained in the future. It must start now to make the future of Indonesia and the countries in Asia more

stable,” he said.Based on the BI data, the ave-

rage annual trade between In-donesia and Malaysia during 2010-2016 reached US$19.5 bil-lion. The figure consists of ex-ports at US$9.3 billion and im-ports at US$10.2 billion. The average annual trade between Indonesia and Thailand reached US$15 billion consisting of ex-ports at US$5.5 billion and im-ports at US$8.5 billion.

To facilitate the cooperation, the three central banks have ap-pointed several banks deemed to meet the qualification criteria to facilitate the bilateral trans-actions. The criteria are robust and sound in each country, hav-ing experiences in facilitating trades between two countries involved in the transaction, hav-ing business relationships with banks in both countries, and having a broad customer base and branch offices in the coun-

Indonesian Trade Mi-nister Enggartiasto Lukita and Chilean Foreign Affairs Minister Heraldo Muñoz have agreed and signed the Comprehensive Eco-nomic Partnership Agree-ment bet ween Indone-sia and Chile (IC-CEPA) in Santiago, Chile, on Thurs-day (12/14). The IC-CEPA is the first bilateral free trade agreement between Indone-sia and a country in Latin America.

The HPI and Amerop Di-rectorate Generals play an active role in the 6-round IC-CEPA negotiations since 2014. The Directorate Ge-neral of HPI even served as lead negotiator on the Working Group on Legal and Institutional Issues.

The signing of IC-CEPA is a manifestation of a bi-lateral agreement between the Indonesian president and the president of Chile during the visit of Chile’s President Michele Bache-let to Indonesia on May 12, 2017 to complete the IC-CEPA negotiations in 2017.

The signing of IC-CEPA, which agrees to abolish im-port tariffs on some of Indo-nesia’s flagship products,

Indonesia Officially Becomes MIKTA Coordinator for Year 2018

Indonesia - Montenegro Explore Cooperation in Strategic Sectors

Preparing visit of Russian President to Indonesia, Russia and Indonesia Hold Bilateral Consultation

A total of 20 drafts of the In-donesian - Russian pending treaties were discussed at the Working Group on Legal Ba-sis (WGLB) meeting at the Rus-sian Foreign Affairs Minis-try in Moscow on Wednesday (12/13). Director for Europe-an III Ar dian Wicaksono, who led the Indonesian delegation, said that the pending agree-ments concerning transporta-tion, health, strategic partner-ships, prose-cutors, sister city of Yogyakarta-St.Petersburg, and standardization are ex-pected to be deliverable during the Russian president’s visit to Indonesia next year.

Chairman of the Russian delegation Director for Asia III of Foreign Affairs Ministry, Am-bassador Lyudmila Vorobyeva, said she was optimistic that the pending agreement drafts will

donesia and Eurasian Eco-nomic Union, whose working do cument is still discussed among EAEU member coun-tries, was also mentioned. Ac-cording to the Russian direc-tor, the cooperation document still requires intensive discus-sions with 4 other EAEU mem-ber countries.

During the meeting the Rus-sian director also praised the Indonesian Festival held by the Indonesian Embassy in Moscow which generated a positive im-pact in increasing the number of Russian tourists to Indonesia and welcomed the suggestion that Russia should hold such a promotional event in Indonesia.

The two parties also agreed to increase cooperation among the higher education institutions and on diplomatic short courses to Indonesia as the implemen-

Indonesia, Chile Sign Comprehensive Trade Agreement

Turkey officially handed over the MIKTA’s presidency to Indo-nesia for the period of 2018 on Wednesday (12/13) in Istanbul during the 11th MIKTA Minis-terial Conference. The handover ceremony was also witnessed by the other three MIKTA member countries of Mexico, South Ko-rea, and Australia.

Prior to the procession, Tur-key first reported the outcomes of its MIKTA leadership in 2017. From the seven core areas of MIKTA (fighting against terror-ism, commercial and economic cooperation, sustainable deve-lopment, gender equality, peace-keeping operations, good gover-nance, and democracy), Turkey prioritized the fighting against terrorism, economic coopera-tion and refugee crisis. Dur-ing its leadership period, Turkey successfully initiated the imple-mentation of MIKTA Policy Plan-ning Consultations as its flag-

Special Staff of Indone-sian Foreign Affairs Minis-ter for Strengthening Pri-ority Program Mahendra Siregar met with CEO of At-las Group International Dr. Duško Knežević in a busi-ness luncheon in Podgori-ca, the ca pital of Monte-negro, on Friday (12/15). The meeting, also attend-ed by Rector for Education and International Coope-ration, University Mediter-ranean Montenegro, Prof. Janko Radulović, PhD; CEO of Montenegro Berza (Monte-negro Stock Exchange) MSc Gojko Maksimović, CFA; and VP Public Affairs of At-las Foundation Meli Meliha Ramusović, aimed at explor-ing the cooperation opportu-nities for the Indonesian and Montenegrin business peo-ple.

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ship program.Meantime in the period of In-

donesia’s chairmanship of MIK-TA in 2018 it will focus on the issues of peace and security as well as creative economy. The focus is in line with Indone-sia’s efforts to become a perma-nent member of the UN Security Council for the period of 2019-2020 and to develop the creative industry.

Indonesia is currently run-ning for a non-permanent mem-ber of the UN Security Council for the period of 2019-2020 of which the election will be held in June 2018. Meanwhile, the cre-ative economy is considered im-portant given the sector has em-ployed about 16 million people in Indonesia and has contribut-ed 7.3 percent of the GDP.

Some programs to support Indonesia’s priorities as MIK-TA Coordinator include MIK-TA Interfaith and Intercultural

is a Montenegro’s largest holding company, engaged in banking, finance, tourism, edu-cation, real estate and digital media. It has partnership footprints with the investors of Abu Dhabi Cap-ital Group, Mace London, Emir-ates/Dubai Port, and Clinton Global Initiative.

The two parties exchanged views regarding the progress, stability and economic growth in their respective countries. Atlas Group praised the development of Indonesia under the adminis-tration of President Joko Widodo. Atlas Group also said the join of Montenegro into NATO will fur-ther expand its market access to the countries in European Union. The dynamic European market today cannot be sepa-rated from the challenges that arise, including the domino ef-fect of Brexit and the immigrant problems faced by many coun-tries in the European Union.

is expected to increase the direct trades with non-tra-ditional trading partners in Latin America, especially Chile, which is potential to become a trade hub for In-donesian products.

IC-CEPA is the second bilateral free trade agree-ment after the Indonesia-Japan Economic Partner-ship Agreement signed in 2007. Currently, Indonesia is also negotiating se-veral other bilateral free trade agreements, including with Australia and the Europe-an Union as a priority of the Indonesian go vernment. Another free trade agree-ment has been signed by Indonesia is with ASEAN.

The implementation of IC-CEPA will commence soon after the exchange of ratification instruments by Indonesia and Chile. The two countries also agreed to expand the IC-CEPA co-verage in the future from currently only for goods to include the services and in-vestments. For Indonesia, the IC-CEPA is expected to further strengthen the In-donesian economic diplo-macy in Latin America. (KEMLU/TPP)

be finalized on time.After the WGLB meeting,

the two officials held a bilate-ral consultation to discuss bi-lateral and regional coopera-tion issues of common concern. The bilateral consultation is an implementation of the Plan of Consultation agreement signed by the Indonesian and the Rus-sian Foreign Affairs Ministers on August 9, 2017 in Jakarta in a bid to improve the coordina-tion between the two countries.

In an intimate atmosphere, the two directors appreciated the positive dynamics of the two countries’ political dialogues and agreed to enhance the re-lationship between RI and Rus-sia into a Strategic Partnership and to collaborate in the inter-national information security.

The plan to establish Free Trade Agreement (FTA) of In-

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try origin.For the operational frame-

work of rupiah-ringgit, BI and Malaysia’s central bank ap-pointed six banks in Indone-sia and five banks in Malaysia. The appointed banks in Indone-sia are Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), Bank Mandiri, Bank Cen-tral Asia (BCA), Bank Negara In-donesia (BNI), Bank CIMB Niaga and Bank Maybank Indonesia.

The appointed banks in Ma-laysia are CIMB Bank Berhad, Hong Leong Bank Berhad, Ma-layan Banking Berhad, Public Bank Berhad, and RHB Bank Berhad.

For the rupiah-bath cooper-ation, BI and central bank of Thailand appointed BRI, Bank Mandiri, BNI, BCA, Bang-kok Bank PCL, Bank of Ayud-hya PCL, Kasikornbank PCL, Krungthai Bank PCL, and Siam Commercial Bank PCL. (KTD/TPP)

Dialogue, MIKTA Workshop on Women and Peacekeeping, MIK-TA Forum on Enhancing Coop-eration on Creative Economy/Start Up Fest, and MIKTA Work-shop on Counter-Terrorism and Deradicalization.

Indonesia also took the ini-tiative to hold several outreach prog rams such as MIKTA Goes to Campus and MIKTA Fun Walk and Charity Bazaar. “Such activities are expected to famil-iarize MIKTA to the wider com-munity as well as our leadership and role there,” added Director General of Multilateral Coopera-tion, Febrian A. Ruddyard, who is also the Senior Official Leader of Indonesia for MIKTA.

MIKTA is an innovative part-nership consisting of Mexico, In-donesia, South Korea, Turkey and Australia. This cooperation was established in 2013 on the sidelines of the UN General As-sembly. (KEMLU/TPP)

The sectors of digital tech-nology, tourism, and educa-tion were considered having the opportunities for the busi-ness cooperation between In-donesia and Montenegro. Ma-hendra Siregar emphasized the enhancement of tourism cooper-ation, since it has been support-ed by supporting infrastructure, transportation connectivity and ease in the immigration matters such as the exemption of entry visa.

During the meeting Atlas Group offered a cooperation in the field of education. Current-ly, the University Mediterra-nean Podgorica has six faculties of Business Studies, Law, Visu-al Art, IT, Tourism and Foreign Languages which have the po-tentials for cooperation with the universities in Indonesia, main-ly to improve the capability of the students in Indonesia and Montenegro. (KEMLU/TPP)

tation of cooperation agreement between Indonesian Foreign Af-fairs Ministry’s Training Cen-ter and Diplomatic Academy of Russia.

Back to the WGLB meet-ing, another Indonesian dele-gation led by Director for Cen-tral Authority and International Law of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Cahyo R. Muzhar discussed the draft of Mutual Legal Assistance/MLA agreement with his peer at the Russian Ministry of Justice in Moscow. The MLA document is expected to be deliverable in the visit of the Russian President to Indonesia next year.

One more Indonesian dele-gation also had a meeting with the local officials to discuss coo-peration on prison, internation-al civil law and other legal is-sues. (KEMLU/TPP)

LRT Palembang to Operate in June 2018, Five Stations Ready to Use

To Accelerate Development of Floating Airport, AP I Plants Thousands of Mangroves in A. Yani Area

Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) as the managing company will conduct an assessment to determine the passenger fare. Up to now the minis-ter estimates the ticket would be Rp5,000 with the govern-ment’s subsidy.

Meanwhile Operations Di-rector of PT Waskita Karya, Adi Wibowo, said there will be only 5 out of 13 stations to be operated during the upcom-ing Asian Games. This is be-cause the 8 stations are still under construction and cer-tainly will not completed du-ring the Asian Games.

“There are 3 stations that will be ready for trials in March and obviously there will be only 5 stations that can be operated during the Asian Games and the rest of 8 stations will be finished after the event,” said Adi.

The 5 stations that will ope rate first during the Asian Games are the ones at the Sultan Mahmud Badarud-din II Airport Palembang, the Palembang Icon Mall, the Cin-de Market, the Jakabaring Stadium and the OPI Mall. (DTK/TPP)

systems around the airport. This will also support the floating airport concept as a development of the new Ah-mad Yani Airport.

“This is in accordance with our master plan of floating airport concept,” he explained while showing thousands of hectares of mangrove spread-ing under the airport.

Once the planting of mang-rove seedlings finished, Mar-yanto said, he will make a tracking path for nature tour-ism as a supporting facility of the new airport.

He added the AP I had bud-geted a special fund to build a water management pro-ject, so that the water coming from the Java Sea can flow smoothly to the water treat-ment plant in the airport.

The sea water then will be processed into clean water to supply the needs of prospec-tive passengers and employ-ees of Angkasa Pura I in the new Ahmad Yani Airport.

“If you only rely on PDAM (state-owned clean water supplier), you will encoun-ter obstacles,” said Maryanto. (BSN/TPP)

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Construction of Serang-Panimbang Toll Road

to Start in 2018, Land Acquisition to be Paid Soon

The construction of the 83.6 kilometer Serang - Panimbang toll road, included in the Nation-al Strategic Projects (PSN) to ac-cess the KEK Tanjung Lesung in Banten, will begin in January 2018 without a groundbreaking ceremony.

Head of the Regional Develop-ment Planning Board (Bappeda) of Banten Province, Hudaya Latucosina, said that previous-ly the groundbreaking ceremony was planned to be held in October 2017 by President Joko Widodo, but failed due to various things.

According to Hudaya, the cons truction of Serang-Pa-nimbang toll road will be start-ed in January 2018 without any groundbreaking ceremony. “The president will be too busy in that month, so PT Wika as the con-structor has decided to drop the ceremony.”

To building the toll road, 785 hectares of land areas are need-ed, spreading in 50 villages, 14 districts and four regencies/cities.

The appraisal team were ne-gotiating the land price with the people in three districts of Bojong, Picung and Sindangresmi in Pan-deglang regency in the third week of December.

Ibrahim Hasan from the Mi-nistry of Public Works and Pub-lic Housing (PUPR) responsible for the construction of Serang-Panimbang toll road said in Pan-deglang, “We have a meeting with the residents in three districts of Bojong, Picung and Sindang-resmi. The meeting is held on Wednesday in Sindangresmi, on Friday in Bojong and on Thurs-day in Picung. So, in these three days,” he said on Tuesday (19/12).

He added the land acquisition process in the three districts will be completed this month. The land area in Pandeglang for the toll road reaches 2,500 hectares, stretching from Bojong to Panim-bang.

“The width of the toll road will be 20 meters, divided into two op-posite lanes with 10 meters wide

each. The appraisal team has the standard price, but the final price will come out after the negotia-tion,” Ibrahim said.

The price, according to him, might be different from one plot to another depending on the lo-cation. “Once the land plots have been paid, most likely in early January 2018, the construction can begin, especially in Bojong and Picung.”

Meanwhile, Head of Pandeg-lang Land Agency, Rusli Yakob said that the land acquisition for the construction of Serang-Pa-

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PT Jasa Marga (Perse-ro) has signed the Toll Road Concession Agreement (PPJT) for the Jakarta-Cikampek II south section. President Di-rector of PT Jasa Marga, Desi Arryani, said the construction of the new toll road will begin in the middle of next year.

“Next year we will start the construction, in the second semester,” she said on Mon-day (12/18).

Desi added that the cons-truction can only be done next year because the land acqui-sition is still underway and would need about six months to complete.

“The land acquisition has not finished yet. If the land acquisition has reached at least 25%, then the construc-tion can be started,” she add-ed.

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Cikampek Toll Road South

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nimbang toll road is finalizing. “They have already agreed to sell their land plots. Once the price agreed, we will get the land certi-ficates,” he said.

If the certificate is valid and there is no dispute over it, then the PUPR Ministry will pay the land. The payment will be not in cash, but transfer to their bank accounts.

“I and the members of the ap-praisal team have to work togeth-er closely to avoid any mistake in the payment of the land,” Rusli said. (TPP)

The toll road of Jakarta-Ci-kampek II south section con-nect Jatiasih, Cipularang, and Sadang with the length of 64 kilometers. It is longer than the Jakarta-Cikampek elevat-ed toll road which is currently under construction.

The Jakarta-Cikampek II toll road south section is lo-cated on the south side of the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road. This project is valued at Rp14.6 trillion. The construction will be done by PT Jasa Marga Ja-pek Selatan whose sharehold-ers are PT Jasa Marga and PT Wira Nusantara Bumi.

“While waiting for the land acquisition complete, we are also holding the tender for the construction needs, so that once the land is ready, the construction can be started right away,” Desi said. (TPP)

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Watching Construction Activities at HI Roundabout MRT Station

PT Mass Rapid Transit Ja-karta (MRT Jakarta) continues to work maximally to complete the MRT project on time. MRT Jakarta is currently working on the construction of MRT corridor 1 of South - North from Lebak Bulus to HI Round-about. The 16 kilometers sub-way will have 13 stations con-sisting of 7 elevated stations and 6 underground stations.

In general, the development progress of MRT phase 1 has reached 86.17 percent per No-vember 26, 2017. From that percentage, the construction progress of the overpass from Lebak Bulus to Senayan has

reached 78.37 percent while for the underground chan-nel from Senayan to HI round-about has reached 93.95 per-cent. MRT Jakarta has set a target of construction progress to reach 90 to 91 percent by the end of 2017.

On Thursday (12/7), KAO-RI had the opportunity to see first hand the progress of cons-truction at one of the under-ground stations being built by MRT Jakarta. The station, the HI Roundabout, is the north-ernmost station in the South-North subway of phase 1.

When KAORI was visiting the HI Roundabout Station,

the workers were busy doing various construction jobs. In general, the works being done were the installation of tiles, electrical networks and the railway.

On the 1st floor of HI Round-about Station the works in-cluded the installation of tiles, air ducts and electrical net-works. This floor will become a commercial and ticketing area. Some areas on the 1st floor have been tiled and completed with guiding blocks to help the visually impaired passengers. MRT Jakarta uses the guid-ing blocks with the same color as the tile which is gray. At one

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point on a wall there was a sign reads “PI Entrance”. Later, on the wall there will be a door to directly access the Plaza Indo-nesia from the HI Roundabout Station.

On the 2nd floor of HI Round-about Station, the works be-ing done were not too different. This floor is a platform area for up and down of the passengers. The platform has been shaped and was being tiled. Meantime the installation of track and railroad switch was also being worked on. On the south side of the station there will a rail-road switch to move the train to the other track. (KRN/TPP)

The progress of Light Rail Transit (LRT) development in Palembang has reached 76% and is ready to operate in June 2018. However, there will be only 5 out of 13 sta-tions ready to operate and serve the passengers by then.

Nevertheless, when ins-pecting the construction site, Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said he hoped all the stations would be able to operate simultaneously to provide maximum services to the people of South Sumatra.

“Hopefully all the 13 sta-tions will operate simultane-ously, but we will see wheth-er it can be done or not,” said Minister Budi Karya while re-viewing the development prog-ress of LRT Palembang Zone I on Sunday night (12/10).

According to the minis-ter, the current development progress of LRT Palembang has reached 76% but the ins-tallation of steel box gird-er has been finished 100%. Meantime the works for the railway has reached 50% of the total of 47 kilometers.

Once operating, the Trans-portation Ministry and PT

The Authority of Ahmad Yani Airport Semarang is speeding up the develop-ment of floating airport. One of the efforts is plating 24,000 mang rove seedlings in eight locations.

General Manager of PT Ang kasa Pura I Ahmad Yani International Airport Sema-rang, Col (Cpn) Maryanto said the planting of mangrove seedlings has been done pe-riodically in the past three years.

On Friday (12/15), the 24,000 mangrove seedlings were planted on the area right under the new building of Ahmad Yani Airport.

“We had already plant-ed 44 000 during in the past three years. Today there are 24,000 more mangroves,” said Maryanto.

“To speed up the mangrove planting, we involve all the stakeholders from the mili-tary/police forces, the Tawa-ngmas residents living near the airport, and the mang-rove farmers,” he added.

Maryanto said the mang-rove planting will be able to preserve the underwater eco-

“Next year we will start the construction, in the second

semester,” she said on Monday (12/18).

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Governor Soekarwo Gets Akuntan Award 2017East Java Governor Soekar-

wo again performed an achieve-ment at the national level. This time he got the “Akuntan Award 2017” given by the National Su-pervisory Board of the Institute of Indonesia Chartered Accoun-tants (DPN IAI).

The award was presented by Chairman of DPN IAI Mardiasmo and Chairman of the IAI Natio-nal Advisory Board Moermahadi Soerja Djanegara, witnessed by Vice President Jusuf Kalla at the opening of International Semi-nar IAI 60th Anniversary Toward 2030: Transforming Role of Pro-fessional Accountants in the New Economy Order at the Ballroom of Crowne Plaza Hotel Semarang, on Wednesday (12/14) afternoon.

The award is given to Soe-karwo for his dedication, achieve-ment, innovation and contri-bution in implementing good accountancy in the East Java ad-ministration system. He creates transparency and accountabili-ty which lifts the image of the ac-countant profession.

Answering questions asked

by the media about the mean-ing of the award, Pakde Karwo (Soe karwo’s nickname) said the award was a form of success of all parties, both the East Java Provincial Government as a team work and East Java region as a whole. The main success is in the transparent and accountable governance.

“Hopefully, this Akuntan Award will improve the perfor-mance of East Java Provincial Government in providing better services to the community,” he said.

Pakde Karwo also expressed his gratitude to IAI as a great professional institution which has been existing for 60 years now.

Meantime Vice President Ju-suf Kalla in his speech said the accountant profession is very important, mainly because it is based on discipline, dedication and trust. Without all the three, the accountant profession will be unappreciable.

“The accountant’s main as-set is trust and skill. Without ac-

Pandeglang Receives Grant from Director General of Fiscal Balance

Pandeglang Regent Irna Na-rulita signed the grant agree-ment on the Flood Manage-ment in Selected River Basins (FMSRB) program in 2018 at the Nagara Dana Rakca Building, Jakarta, on Thurs-day (12/7).

Six regions have been se-lected for the pilot projects of the grant, namely Banten Province, Maluku Province, Regency of Pandeglang, Se-rang, Lebak and Ambon.

The grant refers to the let-

Community Learning Activity Center (PKBM) is an institution established by the community and engaged in education. PKBM is under the supervision and guidance of the local office of Education Ministry. PKBM can be either at a vil-lage or district level. Kendal Regency has many PKBMs, one of which is PKBM Pandansari locat-ed in Sambongsari Village, Weleri District.

The regent of Kendal inaugurated the PKBM building by signing on the inscription witnessed by Head of Education Office Agus Rivai, Weleri District officials and hundreds of Sambongsari villagers. The regent said she hoped the PKBM would be useful for the community.

“I am touched by the spirit of Sambongsari Village residents to keep learning so that they initiated to build this education center building. I and the head of Education Office highly appre-

ciate the awareness of the Sambongsari people to generate better generations,” said Regent Mir-na.

“Currently our children are playing Sepak Takraw in Thailand representing Central Java, while the Muathai athletes from Kendal Regen-cy have reached the national level. The foot-ball team also has entered the national level. Let’s continue to be grateful together. My hope is there will emerge children with high achieve-ments from Kendal regency,” she added.

Before signing the inscription, Kendal Regent dr. Mirna Annisa visited the participants of edu-cation package B and C who were sitting the odd semester test. They looked cheerful while wel-coming the number one person in Kendal Re-gency. Then Regent Mirna went to visit the class of sewing. (KENDAL/TPP)

Kendal Regent Inaugurates PKBM Pandansari

West Java Provincial Government continues to complement facilities at the West Java International Airport (BIJB) to maximize the function of the 1,800 hectares airport.

According to West Java Governor Ahmad Hery-awan, one work currently being rushed is the cons-truction of toll road and

regular road in 2018 to access the BIJB, located in Kertaja-ti, Majalengka Regency, West Java. West Java Governor Aher said he must acquire some land plots for the construction of BIJB infrastructure. “BIJB needs about 1.7 kilometers of land for the construction of a regular road,” said Ahmad Heryawan, who is familiarly called Aher, recently.

West Java Provincial Government Acquires 1.7 Km of Land for Road to BIJB

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countants, the country will be in turmoil and the companies will not know what to do,” said the vice president.

To that end, he continued, maintaining the code of con-ducts of this profession, includ-ing holding secrecy, should be done to gain the public trust. The vice president, who is familiarly called JK, also said he hoped the accountants would not only look for mistakes, but also provide solutions for the companies to make them run well and trans-parent.

According to JK, the accoun-tant profession is also very dy-namic. The development of technology has helped the ac-countants in preparing the dai-ly, monthly, and annually reports right away.

In addition to the East Java Governor, the Akuntan Award 2017 was also presented to Vice Chairman of BPK RI Bah-rullah Akbar, Justice and Hu-man Rights Minister Yasonna H. Laoly, and CEO of BCA Jahja Se-tiaatmadja. (JATIM/TPP)

ter from the Directorate Ge-neral of Water Resources of the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing, number KU. 01. 01-DA/456 dated July 19, 2017 concerning the revi-sions of proposed allocations and lists of local governments receiving grants.

Director General of Fis-cal Balance Budiarso Teguh Widodo said the grant is in-tended to strengthen the f lood prevention plan in the re-gions.

Aher said, for the toll road, to be integrated with the Ci-pali interchange highway, will takes up approximately three kilometers of land. This toll road will make it easier to ac-cess the BIJB Kertajati from the Cipali highway.

The land acquisition, ac-cording to him, has been com-pleted in 2017 using the West Java Provincial state budget (APBD). Meanwhile the cons-truction of the roads will be fi-nanced by the national state budget (APBN).

Director of PT BIJB Vir-da Dimas Ekaputra said the toll road and regular road will meet in the location adjacent to the airport terminal. Vir-da said he hoped, after be-ing inspected by Governor Aher, the process of land ac-quisition and the procurement of goods for the construction can be completed before the ope ration of BIJB. “Hopeful-ly after being inspected by the governor, the process of land acquisition and the construc-tion can be completed before the operation of this airport,” he said.

Virda added the develop-ment progress of BIJB until Saturday (12/30) has reached 82 percent. He also has com-municated with PT Angka-sa Pura (AP) II regarding the cooperation in the operation of the airport. “Until now, the construction has reached 82 percent and the soft launch-ing will be done in April 2018,” he said. (TPP)

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ties and in the villages. “The local government can also use the grant to improve the pub-lic services during the f lood.”

Meantime Pandeglang Re-gent Irna Narulita said the grant is expected to cope with the impact of the f loods hit-ting the Pandeglang Regency frequently.

“We would like to thank the central government for this grant. We also need a help in working on the river which caused the f lood to make the

He said the impact of f lood-ing can lead to the destruc-tion of roads and crops as well as polluting the clean water. “One of the outcomes of this grant is the reduction of f lood risk with the target of saving 19 thousand hectares of rice fields and 22 thousand house-holds from flooding by 2022.”

Budiarso added the grant came from the foreign loan (PLN) and has two main goals, improving the public servic-es and the welfare of the com-

munity.“It is clear that the f loods

have damaged the roads and other infrastructures which impaired the public servic-es and disrupted the human health. So, this fund is ex-pected to be able to prevent the f lood from happening,” he said.

Budiarso further said the f loods can be caused by var-ious factors, especially the ri-ver management which is not optimally yet both in the ci-

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Pandeglang Regency has received a grant from the Directorate General of Fiscal Balance, the Ministry of Finance, amounting to Rp85.5 billion.

water f low normally again,” she said.

According to Irna, the grant is a top down policy. Thus, where the fund will be used to has been determined by the central government.

“The fund will go to eight districts along the ri vers of Ciujung and Cidanau (BBWSC3), namely Cadasari, Koroncong, Karangtanjung, Pandeglang, Majasari, Ban-jar, Kaduhejo and Mandala-wangi,” she added. (TNM/TPP)

TOURISM

Once Kertajati Airport Operational, West Java Will Attract 50 Million Tourists

The Government of West Java is optimistic the num-ber of tourists will increase significantly after the Kerta-jati West Java Airport (BIJB) operational in 2018. Accord-ing to West Java Tourism and Culture Office, 50 million of foreign and domestic tour-ists will visit West Java after-ward.

Head of West Java Tourism and Culture Office Ida Hern-ida said the airport, locat-ed in Kertajati District, Maja-lengka Regency, will provide a new access for the domes-tic and foreign tourists. “Our target is in the year 2018, we will bring in 48 million do-mestic tourists, I believe will be more, and more than one million foreign tourists,” said Ida Hernida in Bandung, on Friday (12/15).

Ida further said that the figures were not overesti-mated, because until No-vember 2017, the number of tourists coming to West Java had reached 46 million. This number has already reached the target for 2017. As for the foreign tourists, unfortunate-ly it is still under one million until early this December.

“For foreign tourists, the number only reached 600,000 per No-vember but this must increase in December due to the Christ-mas and New Year holidays,” she added.

According to Ida, tourism is very important to continue to be developed, considering that this sector can become the loco-motive for the economic growth as well as to serve as the main source of state revenue. The data from Bank Indonesia (BI) in 2016 show the tourism con-tribution to the economy in West Java, especially accommoda-tions and restaurants, reached Rp33 trillion. Even the nation-al tourism contributes the sec-ond largest foreign exchange af-ter the oil and gas sector.

“The BIJB will benefit the tourism sector even more. It will surely boost the number of tour-ists, especially from the overseas with the availability of the direct flights,” said Ida.

She added that the potential of West Java which is blessed with beautiful natural land-scapes should be utilized max-imally. “Nowadays who does not want to travel to West Java with its so many natural beauties.” (TPP)

Just Being Launched, Helicopter Tour Jakarta Overbooked

Biggest Cruise Ship in Asia Stops by at Surabaya

The Helicity by Whitesky Aviation gives its own color in spending holidays. The travel-ers to Jakarta have welcomed the helicopter tour services enthusiastically.

Dozens of traveler groups had taken the helicopter tour. The helicopter tour servic-es were officially launched on December 4 by Tourism Mi-nister Arief Yahya and Trans-portation Minister Budi Karya

Sumadi.“The responses are good,

from the day of launching un-til today we had served 15 flights,” said Ari Nurwanda at the Aldiron Helispot Pancoran, Jakarta, on Friday (12/22).

From December 4, 2017 to January 5, 2018 or during the Wonderful Joy Flight program, the travelers will get a special price. You only pay Rp5.6 mil-lion per helicopter for 3 people

PT Banten West Java Grants 6.2 Hectares of Land

Tourism Minister Arief Yahya Inaugurates Two Homestays in Sigapiton

Tourism Minister Arief Yah-ya has inspected the locations supporting the tourism in Lake Toba, a tourist destina-tion for priority development. After accompanying President Jokowi in inaugurating the Si-langit International Airport Terminal, he went to Sigapi-ton Village, Toba Samosir Re-gency, on the eastern edge of Lake Toba.

The small village has been selected as a pilot project for the Homestay Village Develop-ment by the Ministry of Tour-ism. It was the second visit of the minister to Sigapiton Vil-lage, while the first was held on July 8.

Since October 15, 2017 two units of homestay named “Jabu Na Ture” have been set up. The homestays were built

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based on the designs made by participants of the competition of bamboo made Homestay Nu-santara and Homestay Ecopod held by the tourism ministry.

Bamboo is a type of plant that grows quickly in many are as in Indonesia. Bamboo is easy to find, and its mainte-nance is also easy.

The design of the Jabu Na Ture Homestay is inspired by the typical Jabu Bolon, the traditional house of Batak Toba tribe, but with a modifi-cation by using bamboo mate-rial which is cheaper and envi-ronmentally friendly.

The homestay development is funded by the Tourism Mi-nistry to socialize to the com-munity how to maintain the local architectural character-istics (archipelago architec-

ture), and to make the home-stay as one of community tourism businesses. The fur-ther development of the home-stay will be offered to the pri-vate investors.

The two homestays in the Lake Toba area are expected to boost the interest of local peo-ple to designs their homes as homestays so that the village can run the tourism business independently.

Minister Arief Yahya also visited Tomok and had a look at the Sigale-gale Souvenir Market and Cultural Tourism Objects located in front of the distinctive customs houses.

“If you want to be global players then always make sure to use the global standard,” he said while meeting with the Tourism Awareness Group

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proposed to get financial assis-tance for renovating 14 home-stays, especially in the interior design. Minister Arief respond-ed positively and said that the Tourism Ministry would dis-burse a fund for renovating 20 homestays no later than De-cember 2017.

Meanwhile, for the revital-ization of buildings and toilets, he will coordinate with relat-ed parties such as PUPR Mi-nistry.

The minister also noticed the involvement of Pelindo in sup-porting tourism in Tomok and said he hoped PokDarWis and the regent would enhance the coordination with other parties to develop tourism for prosper-ing the local people. (TPP)

A cruise ship named Genting Dream belonging to the Genting Cruise Lines stopped by at Sura-baya on Tuesday (12/12). The ship departed from the Port of Singapore and arrived at the Ter-minal Gapura Surya Nusantara Tanjung Perak at 07.45 am.

Carrying 2,561 tourists from a total capacity of 3,352 people, the Genting Dream is the larg-est cruise ship in Southeast Asia that ever stopped by in Indone-sia.

“This is a historic day because it is the largest cruise ship that ever stopped by in Indonesia, es-

pecially Surabaya,” said Dream Cruises President Tatcher Brown in his speech at the Zodiac The-ater.

Brown said the Genting Dream has always been the pio-neer of the cruise ship indus-try in Asia. “Dream Cruises is no stranger to Indonesia. Sever-al branches of our company have visited Indonesia several times to Komodo Island, Anambas Is-lands, Bali, Medan and Jakarta in 2015,” he added.

Brown also said that his com-pany supported Indonesia’s tour-ism by visiting the Port of Tan-

jung Perak, Surabaya, and the Celukan Bawang Port, North Bali. “Indonesia is a butter-fly route, the key of the cruise ship industry in Southeast Asia, spanning from Singapore, Sura-baya, to Bali.”

Once getting off the boat, about a thousand passengers went on a city tour to see the House of Sampoerna, the Hero Monument, and the city parks. Some chose to cross to the Ma-dura Island for a moment.

Most of the 2,561 tourists were Singaporeans (632 people) and Malaysians (314 people). The rest were from various countries in Asia, such as India, Myanmar, Australia, Hong Kong, Philip-pines, China, Mongolia, Sri Lan-ka, and even Indonesia.

The Genting Dream takes the guests for shipping trips from Singapore to some destinations in the Malacca Straits and the Java Sea.

There is the Malacca Strait Cruise Package traveling to Kua-la Lumpur-Penang-Phuket, while the Java Sea package sails to Surabaya and North Bali. Some of the passengers combined the Malacca Strait and the Java Sea packages for a 12 nights trip. (TMP/TPP)

PT Banten West Java (BWJ) as the developer of the Special Eco-nomic Zone (KEK) of Tanjung Lesung granted 62,434 square meters or 6.2 hectares of land to the Pandeglang Regency admin-istration during the event of Tech-nical Guidance and Socialization of Regional Property Management held in the Hotel Mutiara Carita on Monday (12/4) morning.

The land document was hand-ed over by President Director of PT BWJ Poernomo Siswopraseti-jo to Regional Assistant for Pub-lic Administration and People’s Welfare of Pandeglang Regency Undang Suhendar. Besides as a form of cooperation, the grant is also to facilitate the participation of regency in the management of tourism in the region.

Poernomo said that on some of the granted land will be built a road and a landfill in Kam-pung Cikadu, Tanjungjaya Vil-

lage, Panimbang District, cover-ing 36,234 square meters of the land. Meanwhile the other 24,300 square meters of the land is for the development of Cikadu Tour-ism, and the rest of 2,000 square meters will be used for an office building. “This grant is fully our initiative (BWJ). It is expected to make the KEK Tanjung Lesung more attractive to the investors and tourists,” he added.

Poernomo also said the tech-nical development on the granted land is entirely the responsibility of the regency administration, in cooperation with the central go-vernment through the Directorate General of Human Settlements at the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR). “I am op-timistic that early 2019 the KEK Tanjung Lesung will go global, considering the regional develop-ment planning in 2018 has been done well.”

Meanwhile Regional Assis-tant Undang Suhendar said he will soon make the plan on how to manage the granted land in KEK Tanjung Lesung optimally to achieve the goal.

“The goal is to prosper the com-munity around the KEK. They are not a spectator, but a player who should benefit from the ex-isting of the tourist destination,” he said.

Undang added there is no pro-blem for the regional and the cen-tral governments in funding the KEK development as long as the land ownership status is clear. “If a land is built by the government, the land should belong to the go-vernment.”

On the same occasion, Head of Regional Tax Services (BP2D) of Pandeglang Regency Utuy Se-tiadi said the contribution of PT BWJ to the local revenue is quite good. The value reaches Rp200

million per month. “That is the amount of taxes from ho-tels and restaurants only, not to mention the other sectors such as the underground wa-ter retrieval.”

Utuy added he hoped the contribution of PT BWJ will continue to increase along with the increasing number of tourists. “I am sure Pan-deglang people will prosper if KEK Tanjung Lesung contin-ues to grow, especially for the surrounding community.”

Also attending the event were Director of Institute of Leadership of Indonesia Uni-versity (UI) Kamarudin, Presi-dent Director of PT Paramount Kristian, Head of Regional Fi-nance and Asset Management Agency (BPKAD) of Pandeg-lang Muslim Taufiq, and other officials of Pandeglang Regen-cy. (RDB/TPP)

and 15 minutes flight.“But after that dates, the

rate will be back to normal, which is Rp7 million per 15 minutes,” Ari added.

The route for Wonder-ful Joy Flight starts from Aldiron Helispot Pancoran, flying to the north over the Ancol and Old Town, then heading west towards the House of Representatives (DPR) Building or Senayan and Semanggi areas.

“So, we cooperate with Tourism Ministry in ar-ranging this route so that there is a historical value and not just flying,” said Ari.

“The Wonderful Joy Flight was also booked for December 24 and 27,” he added.

Currently, the Helicity is focused on the city tour. However, it also serves the reservations for pick and drop.

“We are still in the deve-lopment stage of the routes in the city, not out of town. Most of the customers who book it are also still from family circle,” Ari said. (TPP)

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PT Jababeka Tbk has been awarded with Green PROPER 2017, for its clean production system, biodiversity programs, and community empowerment which exceed the standard.

The award was presented by Environment and Forestry Mi-nister Siti Nurbaya, witnessed by Vice President Jusuf Kalla, to Director of Jababeka Hyan-to Wihadhi at the Vice Presi-dent Pa lace, Jakarta, on Mon-day (12/18).

Vice President Jusuf Kal-la congratulated the receivers of PROPER Green and Gold. He said 3 things must be done to avoid public anger.

“The first is democracy; au-thoritarian will only make peo-ple angry. Second is human

Jababeka, the only Industrial Estate that Wins Green PROPER Award 2017

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Senior Living D’Khayangan welcomed the representative of Japan External Trade Orga-nization (JETRO) from Singa-pore as the team of ASEAN Project for Asia Human Well-being Initiative on Tuesday (12/5) in Jababeka Cikarang.

JETRO is a Japanese go-vernment-related organization that promotes mutually be-

neficial trade and investment relations between Japan and other countries in the world.

The visiting group, con-sisting of 2 people from JET-RO named Katsuya Yoshioka, Senior Director of JETRO Ja-karta Office, and Dai Ito, Di-rector of Business Develop-ment of the Singapore Office, as well as 2 people from Ja-

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rights; violating human rights will be punished by the world. Third is the environment; the world keeps an eye on how we improve the environment in the nature and in the industry,” he said.

“In the past, the smokes in the air and the dirty water in the rivers due to the industrial dis-posals were the signs of deve-loped countries. Now it’s the op-posite, a good environment will benefit all parties. With a good discipline, the environment can be managed well. This can only be done by mutual compliance,” he added.

Meantime Minister Siti Nur-baya said awarding the business entities was done by eva-luat-ing the compliance to the envi-

ronmental management re-gula-tions, the energy efficiency, water conservation, emission reduc-tion, biodiversity protection, 3R B3 waste and non-B3 solid waste reduction and the community empowerment.

“The compliance in 1995 at the beginning of PROPER is only 30% while in the 2011s it was 70% and now it reaches 92%,” the minister said.

“The PROPER parameters that can be calculated for 2016-2017 are the revolving funds for CSR programs which reached Rp7 trillion, the energy efficien-cy 230 million GJ, the reduction of greenhouse gas emission equi-valent to 33 million tons of CO2, the water efficiency 492 million m3, the decrease in CO2 emis-

karta Shimbun was welcomed by Masami Kitamura, Director of Long Life Holding Co.Ltd, Yuzurihara Kazuma, Direc-tor of PT Jababeka Longlife City, and Marlin Marpaung as President Director of PT Jaba-beka Longlife City.

Marlin, interviewed after the event, said that the vi-sit of the group was in a bid to explore the business oppor-tunities in Bangkok, Singa-pore and Jakarta or Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia for the Japanese investors on the health services, health care and wellness.

After the meeting, the two representatives from JET-RO were looking around the premise and did a survey on the facilities in the Senior Li-ving D’Khayangan Jababe-ka guided by Yuzurihara Ka-zuma. They also met with one of the members of Senior Li-ving D’Khayangan, Mr. Prajit-no, who showed his painting works produced during his li-ving at the D’Khayangan. (TPP)

sions 75.7 million tons, the de-crease of conventional emission 135 million tons, the decrease of wastewater load 535 mil-lion tons, the reduction of non-B3 solid waste 11.6 million tons, and the reduction of B3 waste 13 million tons,” she added.

To presidentpost.id, Jababeka Director Hyanto said, “From the 19 receivers of PROPER Gold, I noticed that their programs ac-tually have also been done by Ja-babeka Group. May be because they’re not synergized, then only what have been done by Jaba-beka Infrastructure which have been recorded. For example, we have empowering farmers with 40 hectares which should be in-cluded into PROPER. Hopefully next year we can get the PROP-

ER Green again and if we get it three times in a row, we will get the Gold.”

For Jababeka, the PROPER award was the third. The largest industrial area in Southeast Asia previously received the same award in 2009 and 2011.

As many as 1,819 compa-nies from several industries were ranked for the PROPER 2017. The PROPER compliance rate this year reached 92%, or in-creased 7% from last year.

The PROPER 2017 ranks in sequence from the best are Gold 19 companies, then Green 150 companies, Blue 1.486 compa-nies, Red 130 companies, and Black 1 company, while 33 other companies are under legal pro-ceeding for contaminating the

land.The event also performed a

choir by the Tapal Batas Seba-tik School students, who are the children of migrant workers of oil palm plantations in the Indone-sia-Malaysia border. They sang the national anthem Indonesia Raya (previously they only knew the Malaysian national anthem).

The PROPER aims to en-courage industry to apply green economy principles with assess-ment on environmental manage-ment, energy efficiency, water conservation, emission reduc-tion, biodiversity protection, 3R of B3 waste and non-B3 solid waste reduction and narrowing the economic disparities by im-plementing community empow-erment programs. (TPP)

On Last Trading Day, IDX Records Domestic Investment Up to Rp340 Trillion

The Indonesia Stock Ex-change (IDX) has recorded an increase in the number of in-vestors by 44 percent in the past two years, followed by an increase in the value of do-mestic investments through-out 2017.

“The number of investors is up to 1.12 million, while the increase in value of domestic investments reached Rp340 trillion this year,” Head of Corporate Communication Di-vision of BEI Yulianto Aji Sa-dono said in a press release on Friday (12/29).

Yulianto said the last trad-

ing day of the year was en-couraging. In addition to the increase in the number of in-vestors and the value of in-vestments, the year 2017 was also closed with 37 additional companies listed at the stock exchange through the initial public offering (IPO).

“The number is the highest ever at the BEI in the last 23 years and even the highest in Southeast Asia,” said Yulian-to.

He added that foreign in-vestors kept investing in In-donesia with 15 percent real-ization of the total investment

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increase of Rp261 tril-lion. According to Yulian-to, the trading activity on the stock exchange also in-creased almost 20 percent so that the BEI stocks were more liquid than at the oth-er capital markets in Asia.

“The amount of funds collected reached the high-est too in history, reaching more than Rp802 trillion,” he said.

Yulianto added the funds were generated from the IPOs, rights issues, conver-sion of warrants, asset se-curitization and bonds is-sued by the government, state-owned enterprises, and private companies.

Yulianto further said the achievements of BEI in 2017 included the increase in literacy on capital mar-ket. Based on the Nielsen survey, he added, the ca-pital market literacy in-creased from 4.3 percent in 2016 to 15 percent in 2017. Yulianto claimed one driv-er of the increase was the campaign of “Yuk Nabung Saham” (Let’s Saving in Stocks) intensified by BEI since 2015. (TMP/TPP)

Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya, witnessed by Vice President Jusuf Kalla, to Director of Jababeka Hyanto Wihadhi at the Vice President Palace, Jakarta

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Launching Kawana Golf Residence: Talkshow, Rooftop, Helicopter, Golf Course and Oversold

Here Are the Expectations of Regional Head, Entrepreneur, Academician and Association to the New TVRI

The launching of Kawana Golf Residence was a success, featuring a property talk show, a rooftop night event, and a he-licopter ride. Jababeka Resi-dence and Creed Group from Japan held the launching of Kawana Golf Residence at the golf course, Cikarang, on De-cember 8-9, 2017 and oversold.

The property talk show was held at the Celecton Hotel on Friday, presenting Lim Seng Bing as Managing Director of Jababeka Residence, Tatsuya Ichinomiya as Business De-velopment Director of Creed Group, Alex Chan as Assis-tance Vice Director of Creed Group Singapore, and Andy K. Natanael as a property prac-titioner and Vice Chairman of DPI REI Training Board. It was attended by dozens of proper-

ty investors who were then en-tertained with dinner and live music at the rooftop of the four-star hotel.

“The property developers must develop, not just buying and selling buildings,” Andy said in his presentation.

Before the launching ceremo-ny began, the investors got the opportunity to enjoy the Jaba-beka Cikarang sights from the air by riding a helicopter. “The scenery is great from above and so much different from seeing it on the land,” said one investor, Lis Handayani.

The launching of Kawa-na Golf Residence started at 10.00 am at the Jababeka Golf & Country Club, which was crowded by the investors who were willing to queue to buy the apartment units.

Presenter Helmy Yahya has been selected as the President Director of the state-owned tele-vision station TVRI for the period of 2017-2022 by the TVRI’s Su-pervisory Board. During his in-auguration, Helmy promised to bring back the TV station into popularity again.

Kawana Golf Residence con-sists of 234 units of apartment with 3 types, namely Studio (26.55 m2 semi gross), 1 Bed-room (35.57 m2 semi gross), and 2 Bedroom (52 m2 semi gross). The prices per unit start from Rp1 billion to Rp3 billion.

Each apartment unit will get a bonus of Term Membership Golf that can be used by the investors and the prospective tenants of Kawana Golf Resi-dence.

Sutedja Sidarta Darmono, President Director of PT Gra-habuana Cikarang, said, “The response from the investors and property agents is very good. The sales target was 40%, but all the Kawana Golf Apartment units today are oversold.”

The Kawana Golf Residence is designed with Japanese cul-

“It’s my job (to revive TVRI). This TV station has a very big po-tential. I know it and I believe it. Many people hope TVRI can be more alive again,” said Helmy as quoted by tribunnews on Tues-day (11/27).

Some regional heads, entre-preneurs, academics and tour-

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United Tractors’ Heavy Equipment Sales Rise 60%

Nippon Indosari Acquires 51% Shares of Prima Boga

PT United Tractors Tbk (UNTR) is optimistic that the sales of Komatsu heavy equip-ment in 2017 reaching the tar-get of 3,500 units. The company has targeted to sell 3,800 units in 2018.

UNTR Corporate Secretary Sara K. Loebis said that in 2017 the sales of Komatsu heavy equipment by UNTR might reach 3,500 units. In 2016 UNTR only booked the sales of Komatsu at 2,118 units. That means the 2017 sales increase 60.47% year on year (yoy).

The high target was supported by the good sales in the first ten months of 2017. Until October 2017, UNTR sold 3,058 units of Komatsu. On average, 306 units of heavy equipment were sold by UNTR per month. So, in the last two months of 2017, UNTR would only need to sell 442 more units to achieve the target.

As of October 2017, UNTR’s heavy equipment business was dominated by heavy equipment

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sales for the mining sector. The portion accounts for 50% of the total sales. The second position is the construction sector with the sales of heavy equipment reached 22%. Then it was fol-lowed by agriculture and forest-ry sectors with the sales at 16% and 12% respectively.

In 2018 UNTR sets a conser-vative target for heavy equip-ment sales. “The target in 2018 is 3,800 units or up 10%,” said Sara on Monday (12/18). (KTN/TPP)

tural wisdom as the main con-cept. Adjacent and just steps away to the Jababeka Golf & Country Club, it is overlooking the green landscape of the golf course. The members of the Ja-babeka Golf & Country Club are 90 percent Japanese and South Korean expatriates.

Kawana Golf Residence is the first and only golf apartment in Cikarang and its surround-ings. It is the most important point that distinguishes this apartment from others in the region. Kawana Golf Jababeka is surrounded by a golf course that seems to make this apart-ment highly favored by the ex-patriates who works in the Ci-karang area. Its residents will enjoy the golf atmosphere of green environment, fresh and calm. (TPP)

ism associations conveyed their supports and expectations to presidentpost.id.

Ende Vice Regent Djafar Ach-mad said, “My hope is TVRI in the future will focus more on the results of development programs and the government policies for prospering the people. What’s in-

KIJA’s 9M17 Revenue Increases 20%

PT Jababeka Tbk (“KIJA”) recorded a total consolidat-ed revenue of Rp 2,329.4 bil-lion in the first nine months of 2017, an increase of 20% compared to the same peri-od of 2016. This growth was mainly driven by the Com-pany’s Land Development & Property and Infrastructure business pillars, which saw revenue increase 23% and 20% year-on-year respective-ly. Land Development & Pro-perty was mainly driven by an increase in revenue con-tribution from Kendal, which increased nearly tenfold from Rp 29.4 billion in 9M16 to Rp 269.7 billion as per 9M17 on the back of improved sales.

Over the same period, re-venue contributions from the power plant, part of the In-frastructure pillar, increased 25% from Rp 918.7 billion as per 9M16 to Rp 1,149.1 bil-lion in 9M17 mainly because the power plant operated at full capacity in 2017 whereas parts of the second and third quarter of 2016 the plant ope-rated at half capacity be-cause of a leakage in one of the boilers – which was fully repaired in August last year. Total recurring revenue from the Company’s infrastructure businesses (power, port, wa-ter) equals 63% of total reve-nue in 9M17, equal to 9M16.

Largely in line with re-venue, the Company’s gross profit increased from Rp 742.0 billion in 9M16 to become Rp 857.7 billion in 9M17, an in-crease of 16%. At the same time, the Company’s conso-lidated gross profit margin

decreased slightly; from 38% in 9M16 to 37% in 9M17. This re-duction is mainly the result from a lower gross profit margin from the Land Development & Pro-perty pillar in 9M17 at 61%, com-pared to 74% in 9M16. This lo-wer margin is mainly the result from more contributions from sales in Kendal, which on aver-age have significantly lower mar-gins compared to Cikarang. The Infrastructure pillar gross pro-fit margin increased from 20% in 9M16 to 23% in 9M17, where-as the gross profit margin for the Leisure & Hospitality pillar in-creased from 41% in 9M16 to 46% in 9M17.

KIJA’s net income for the pe-riod as per 9M17 was recorded at Rp 165.7 billion; a decrease of 52% compared to the first nine months of 2016. This was mainly caused by a large net fo-reign exchange (forex) gain of Rp 186.3 billion in the first 3 quar-ters of 2016, compared to loss of Rp 22.0 billion in the same peri-od of 2017. Excluding such forex gains the Company’s net in-come for the period would have in fact increased 18% from Rp 158.8 billion to Rp 187.7 billion. These amounts are the sum of operational and financial forex gains/losses and gain/loss on our hedging contracts. The de-tails of this can be found in the financial and other income and expense sections of our 9M17 fi-nancial report.

Largely in line with the Com-pany’s revenue and gross profit, KIJA’s EBITDA in 9M17 reached Rp 672.3 billion, an increase of 15% compared to the Rp 585.8 billion achieved in the first nine months of 2016. (IDX/TPP)

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“PT Nippon and PTB have signed a cooperation agree-ment, stating that PT Nippon will buy 51% shares of PTB,” said Nippon Indosari manage-ment in a written statement to the Indonesia Stock Exchange

ral beauty and the hospitality of their people in welcoming the tourists and investments,” Dar-mono concluded.

Former Governor of Lemhanas and academic Prof. Budi Susi-lo Soepandji said he hoped TVRI would be able to channel people’s ideas on nurturing nationality, unity in various community ac-tivities in terms of tribes, reli-gions and races. Also on how to establish honesty and peaceful atmosphere through various ac-tivities of community empower-ment by millennial generation.

While President Director of PT TWC Borobudur, Prambanan and Ratu Boko, who is also CEO of PATA Indonesia Chapter, Poer-nomo Siswoprasetijo said, “Hope-fully new TVRI can cooperate with the Tourism Ministry and Transportation Ministry in deve-loping the tourism potentials of

teresting is how to compete with private TV stations and choose the populist news.”

Meantime Chairman of PT Ja-babeka S.D. Darmono said, “I hope TVRI will be different from others by broadcasting positive things about the progress of the country. The other commercial TV stations usually broadcast things that make people and in-vestors anxious.”

TVRI, according to him, should be educative and nur-ture the people to love the coun-try, obey the law and support the economic development in pros-pering the society.

“Educative, informative and entertaining with our natural and cultural richness is com-mercially profitable, because it is supported by the budgets of local governments who want to promote their regional natu-

the regions’ natural beauty and cultural richness, through a spe-cial program that attracts tour-ists to travel to and investors to invest in those areas.”

Helmy himself asked for sup-ports for the new board of direc-tors to run the tasks. “Hopefully we will realize the mandate and please support and pray for us,” he said, adding that he would improve the TVRI’s programs.

A number of old popular prog-rams will be recreated with the current and modern concept.

“Our strategy is improv-ing the screen, re-branding and there will be contemporary prog-rams and contents. Many prog-rams will also be re-packaged. Pray for us, so that we can make this public TV station to become a leading channel while remains neutral and independent,” he said. (TN/TPP)

in Jakarta on Monday (11/27).PT Nippon Indosari, pro-

ducer of Sari Roti breads, will make additional investments either directly or indirectly within the next three years.

“The investment will be done in stages in accordance with the performance of PTB during the cooperation,” it said.

Bonlight Investment, one of major shareholders of Nip-pon Indosari, partially dis-counted its shares on Novem-ber 6, 2017. Bonlight released its 159,711,531 ROTI shares at Rp1,275 per share or Rp203,632,202,025.

With the sale, the owner-ship of Bonlight Investment in PT Nippon Indosari de-creased from 1,445,696,431 shares or representing 23.4% to 1,285,984,900 shares or 20.79%. As of the third quar-ter of 2017, Nippon Indosari Corpindo recorded a slight de-cline in sales compared to the

same period last year. This de-cline surely lowered the com-pany’s earnings.

As of September 2017, the company recorded sales at Rp1.83 trillion, while in the same period last year the sales reached Rp1.84 trillion.

The gross profit and operat-ing income per September 2017 decreased to Rp943.97 billion and Rp178.59 billion respectively, from Rp950.33 billion and Rp323.85 billion YOY.

The profit before tax and current earnings attributable to the owners of parent com-pany decreased to Rp124.54 billion and Rp97.35 billion from Rp268.80 billion and Rp203.69 billion respectively in the same period last year.

Despite the decline in sales and profit, the company’s total asset and equity per Septem-ber 2017 increased compared to the period until December 2016. (BST/TPP)

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To cope with the elec-tricity crisis in the islands located in the outer, bor-der and disadvantaged (3T) are as, especially in the Riau Islands Province (Ke-pri), PLN through its Riau Islands Regional Office continues to add the diesel generator units.

The state-owned elec-tricity company has invest-ed Rp721 billion for power generation in the Riau Is-lands. In addition to the diesel generator, recent-ly PLN has also installed thesolar panels to generate

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the electricity. The islands are considered having better sun-rays than the main land of Su-matra.

“The solar power generation (PLTS) is simple and does not cost that much since we don’t need to buy the fuel. In the outer islands like these, trans-portation becomes the main obstacle for us to serve the customers maximally,” said General Manager of PLN Riau Islands Regional Office Dwi-Suryo Abdullah.

According to Dwi, the PLTS have been installed in two is-lands, namely SugiBawah Is-

will be held in Jiexpo hall C2 at July 10-12th made to create a business platform and net-work against every company in every countries to represent their best or late st products that really helps for easier and faster industrial performance, also make a bigger plan to live the new po wer of technology for life. Other side, this event supported by ministry of in-dustry Indonesia and associa-tions (such APPI, AKLI, APER-

Head of Formality Division of Special Task Force (SKK) for oil and gas Didik Setiya-di has said that in the next 12 years Indonesia will run out of petroleum oil if new re-serves are not found. There-fore, it needs the commitment of all parties to promote good investment climate for oil and gas upstream industry in In-donesia.

“In the next 37 years, oil and gas will be still the main source of energy for Indo-nesia, especially for trans-portation, power plants and factories,” Didik said while speaking at the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) of Oil and Gas in Ku-ningan, South Ja-karta, on Friday (12/15).

According to Didik, recent-ly the findings of new oil and gas reserves in Indonesia are decreasing due to lessening exploration activities. This happens because of many fac-tors, includingthe too many licen-ses and uncertainty is-

sues on the rules and regula-tions.

Based on the data of BP Statistical Review 2016, In-donesia’s proven oil reserves by the end of 2015 were only 3.6 billion barrels. The pro-ven gas reserves, referring to the same data, were estimat-ed at around 100.3 trillion cu-bic feet (TCF).

“The problem is, the dai-ly consumption of oil in this country reaches 1.6 million barrels. Of that number, only about 800,000 barrels are supplied from the domestic production while the rest have to be imported,” Didik said.

He added that the licens-ing isone of the real challeng-es that must immediately get a solution to avoid the ener-gy crisis from hitting Indone-sia in the near future.

“Currently, the oil and gas contractors must take care of 373 types of licenses to be able to sell their products,” he said, complaining. (IND/TPP)

land, Moro District, Karimun-Regency, and Siantan Island in the Rintis Village, Siantan District, Anambas Regency.

Both PLTS are operat-ed from 08.00 WIB to 17.00 WIB or approximately for nine hours. The PLTS in the Sian-tan Island has a daily capa-city of 65 kW on average, so in a month they are able to pro-duce 17,500 kWh of electricity.

In the meantime, the PLTS in the SugiBawah Island, Moro, is bigger. The capacity of this PLTS can reach 150 kW daily which is considered more efficient. (SWA/TPP)

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Cikarang Dry Port, managed by PT Cikarang Inland Port, has been developing a smart port concept to accelerate and sim-plify its services and support the national logistics system. The smart port concept is in line with the government’s efforts to streamline the national logistics and support the integration sys-tem of Indonesia National Single Window.

As an early stage of the smart port development, starting from last early May, the Cikarang Dry Port has been implementing the auto gate system, truck member-ship and association connected to the port service system, cus-toms and quarantine. This deve-lopment aims to simplify the pro-cess and facilitate the exchange of data in a paperless system.

Now the Cikarang Dry Port, as a spoke and hub of the Tanjung Priok Port, is preparing to launch a mobile application called MyCDP. The soft launching will be done tomorrow on Wednes-

Going Smart, Cikarang Dry Port Launches MyCDP Application

day (12/13) in Jakarta according to the invitation received by pre-sidentpost.id.

The application will make us-ers easier to track their contain-ers, oversee the reefer containers, estimate the terminal charge bill, and order a truck for delivery. This will certainly make it easi-er for the customers to manage their logistics activities by only using their smart phone when-ever and wherever they like.

As a breakthrough in the lo-gistics industry, we were curious about the MyCDP application. It can be downloaded from the Google Play although it’s still un-released. However, we could not try it because we must have the registration ID which is only gi-ven to the Cikarang Dry Port cus-tomers after being verified.

What we could do just look-ing around the features offered by the application. On the home-page there are 5 menus, namely Container Tracking, Reefer Data, Tariff Simulation, Associate and

Feeder Service.The Container Tracking menu

provides information of contain-er whereabout, the time of exit-ing or entering the sea port and the time of coming or leaving the Cikarang Dry Port, as well as in-formation on related documents.

The Reefer Data menu pro-vides information on the condi-tion and temperature of the reefer containers while in the container terminal of Cikarang Dry Port.

The Tariff Simulation menu is a tool to estimate the total cost of terminals used by the containers after leaving them at the specified dates.

The Associate menu provides information on the trucking or other transport modes providers can be used after the issuance of the bill of lading.

The Feeder Service menu is used to order and monitor the delivery services, pickup, and do-mestic transportation modes.

Wait for our next report tomor-row. (TPP)

The government’s efforts to improve the logistics effi-ciency seem to show results. At least it is reflected in the increasing volume of goods handled in a number of ma-jor ports in the country.

The container termi-nal of TPK Koja records the throughput from both inter-national and domestic ship-ping companies exceeding 1 million TEUs until the first week of December 2017. This figure is the highest ever since the terminal was estab-lished 20 years ago.

“The throughput of more than 1 million TEUs is a mo-numental achievement for TPK Koja,” said General Ma-nager of TPK Koja Ade Har-tono in Jakarta on Sunday (12/10).

According to him, until the end of this year, the manage-ment of TPK Koja estimates the total throughput will reach 1.095 million TEUs, or 31% higher than the target for 2017 set at 830,531 TEUs.

The achievement will sup-port the government program

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in cost-efficient logistics to spur the national economic growth.

The administration of Presi-dent Joko Widodo (Jokowi) tar-gets to increase the efficiency and cut the loading and unload-ing time at the ports. Besides lowering the logistics costs, the goal is also to increase the vo-lume of goods and services han-dled at the ports. Hopefully, the wheels of the economy will spin faster.

“The achievement tanks also to the support of relevant stake-holders, especially the operation of the northern pier,” Ade said.

He added the accomplish-ment will become a reference for the company to run according to the corporate roadmap that has been compiled until 2020. “We must continue to make improve-ments to maintain this achieve-ment, especially in improving the service quality and repairing the supporting facilities.”

Ade also said the exceeding 1 million TEUs throughput was supported by appropriate mar-ket penetration strategy accord-ing to the corporate roadmap. “In the future, TPK Koja will con-

tinue to focus on the growth of volume and profit as well as the creation of new services that support the core business, such as integrating the transshipment services.”

Another achievement of TPK Koja this year as the increase of Box Crane per Hour (BCH), mi-gration from ISO 9001: 2008 to ISO 9001: 2015, and awarded as the best implementation of Good Corporate Governance (GCG).

TPK Koja Corporate Secretary Nuryono Arief said that the BCH (loading and unloading contain-ers from and to the ship) as of September 2017 reached 23 box-es per hour, up from 20 boxes per hour at the same period last year.

TPK Koja, Arief said, was cer-tified with ISO 9001: 2015 in April 2017. At the end of Octo-ber 2017, TPK Koja was declared worthy of ISO 9001: 2015 certif-icate after an independent audit.

Arief also mentioned that TPK Koja is ranked first in the im-plementation of Good Corporate Governance (GCG) among do-zens of subsidiaries of PT Pelindo II in 2016 and 2015. (DTK/TPP)

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Kris Wijoyo Soepandji launched a book titled “State Science: A Geopolitical Pers-pective Today” in the Batavia Tower, Jakarta, on Saturday (12/16).

Nowadays various geopoliti-cal dynamics, such as the ra-cing on influence between the United States and China, the conflicts in the Middle East, and the spread of radicalism in the name of a transnational religion have an impact to the situation in the world, includ-ing Indonesia.

Kris Wijoyo Soepandji S.H., M.P.P., a Legal Basics lecturer at the Faculty of Law, the Uni-versity of Indonesia (FHUI), at the launch of his book said that the dynamics may affect the national stability.

“Moreover, Indonesia will enter the election prepara-tion years in 2018 and 2019. Do not let the geopolitical dy-namics cause divisions in our nation. Geopolitical dynamics may affect directly or indirect-ly on the interests of the Indo-nesian people, both in the so-cial, economic, political and military,” said Kris Wijoyo Soe pandji.

The Founding Partner of the Krisna Strategic Policy Firm in his book says there are four important historical events which were influenced by the geopolitical dynamics. First, the fall of Constantinople into the hands of the Ottomans that encouraged the Europe-an nations to seek alterna-tive ways in the distribution

of commodities by controlling the trading routes from Asia, America, and Africa.

Second, Indonesian inde-pendence diplomacy (1945-1949); third, the return of West Irian to Indonesia which took place during the Cold War between the US-led West Block and the Soviet-led East Block; and fourth, the separa-tion of East Timor from Indo-nesia in 1999 after the end of the Cold War, at the time when the international opinions in-creasingly cornered Indone-sia and led to the 1999 refe-rendum.

“In general, geopolitics talk about three things. First, hu-man interaction in a political relationship within a certain

area; second, how the main geopolitical actor is no long-er centered on the state but to non-state who increasing-ly have a high role and legi-timacy; and third, relating to the mastery and utilization of the resources,” said Kris who earned his master’s degree at the National University of Si-ngapore.

Meantime Head of Legal Studies Division of FHUI Budi Darmono, S.H., Ph.D, said that the Proclamation of Indo-nesian Independence on Au-gust 17, 1945 is a proof of the geopolitical awareness of the founding fathers of Indonesia. At that time, the Proclama-tion of Independence was done by the founders of the nation

Winning National ICRC, FH Unair Students Represent Indonesia at Asia Pacific Level

Their success was praised by the Rector of Unair Prof Moh. Nasih while welcoming them on Friday (11/1), accom-panied by Vice Rector I Prof. Djoko Santoso and Chairman of the Department of Interna-tional Law Iman Prihandono.

“Congratulations and thank you for the achieve-ment. I want the regeneration of students like this, so that this achievement can be main-tained,” said Prof. Moh Nasih.

Chairman of the Depart-ment of International Law Iman Prihandono added his students frequently triumph such a moot court competi-tion, including winning the Spirit of The Jessup Award trophy twice in the “Phillip C. Jessup International Law

Moot Court Competition” as the oldest moot court compe-tition in Indonesia. They also won the National Moot Court Competition held by Law Fa-culty of University of Indone-sia late last year.

“For the ICRC competition, the FH Unair delegation pre-pared it in four months with the support of the lecturers,” said Iman Prihandono.

According to him, the team won the National Round af-ter winning the semi-final in a fierce battle against the Gajah Mada University team. Then in the final round the Unair team beat the team from the University of Indonesia (UI).

“Besides winning the first prize, one member of the de-legation, Cristian, FH student

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The students from Engineer-ing Geology of Bandung Insti-tute of Technology (ITB) won a competition organized by the Society of Petroleum Engineer-ing Pandil Deanayal Petroleum University Student Chapter (SPE PDPU SC) at the Ghandhi-nagar, Gujarat, India, in Novem-ber.

The ITB team was victorious in two categories; the first ca-tegory is Showcase (Paper and Poster Competition) won by Rio, Fernaldy Sebastian Santoso, and Betari Ayu Pramita (En-gineering Geology class 2015). The second category is Geology (Geology Challenge) won by Fer-naldy Sebastian Santoso, Rio, and Zaky Indra Putra Rami-ta (Engineering Geology class 2015).

In the competition, Rio and his friends had to go through a series of difficult selection phases. At the Showcase cate-gory, the first stage of abstract selection required the contes-tants to come up with an idea or brief writing about geology. There were 60 abstracts submit-ted which after being discussed, were presented before the judg-es.

Rio and his team presented an idea about mapping the pat-tern of seepage spreads of the

Five students of Law Fa-culty (FH), Airlangga Univer-sity (Unair) Surabaya, won “The 12th Indonesian Natio-nal Round of the Internatio-nal Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition” organized by the International Commit-tee of the Red Cross (ICRC) In-donesia at Trisakti University, Jakarta, in November 2017.

The five students are Cris-tian (oralist), Devi Salsabila (oralist), Amri Rahayu Putri (researcher), Aulia Putri Yu-nanda (observer), and Alfian Rasyidi (official).

As the winner, the team is automatically chosen as the Indonesia’s representative in the Asia Pacific level of the competition next year in Hong Kong.

President University Alumnus Pieter,

Launch Box Inventor, Earns Rp30

Million per Month

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Pieter Immanuel Sinaga, the inventor of Launch Box, is the son of Mr. Robin Sinaga and Mrs. Rehngena, He was born in Kendari on January 26, 1995. He is a young entrepreneur, an alumnus of President University Batch 2012 Business Adminis-tration (BA).

Launch Box is a boxed rice coming with various menus. For Carbo, the customers can choose white rice, brown rice,

potatoes or noodles. For the Pro-tein, there are chicken, fish, egg + tuna and egg + corned beef. The prices start from Rp15,000 with one Carbo, one Protein, Sauce and Topping.

Launch Box is open from 8 am to 7.30 pm, taking orders up to 10 pm and promises that the order will be ready before the morning class the next day or around 6.45 am.

Pieter decided to plunge into

the culinary business because he likes selling things and food is important for human survi-val. “Humans will not stop eat-ing until they die,” he said. Be-sides he wants to develop his hobby on cooking.

The brand name Launch Box came up after he learned that most of the students at the Pre-sident University prefer some-thing instant and efficient for their meal.

The Launch Box was born at President University Student Housing in September 2016. Currently Pieter employs 7 stu-dents. The working hours at Launch Box are set based on the schedules of their classes and student activities. Pieter is able to manage such a schedule from his experiences working at a fried chicken restaurant when he was a student.

“It was so tiresome working

of class 2014 was award-ed with The 3rd Best Oral-ist from the Whole Prelimi-nary Round,” he said.

As the winner, the team will be sent to represent In-donesia in the 16th Asia-Pacific Round of the Red Cross International Hu-manitarian Law Moot Court Competition 2018 to be held in Hong Kong on March 7-10, 2018.

“As Indonesia’s represen-tative to compete in the in-ternational arena, the dele-gates are asking for support and prayers from the Unair leaders and all UNAIR aca-demicians so that they will be able to perform well and win the competition,” he said. (TPP)

shallow gas on the east coast of Sidoarjo. The team also dis-cussed various types of geolo-gical factors that control the dispersion of the seepage pat-tern. According to Rio, the ad-vantage of his team’s presenta-tion to make them a winner was in its simplicity and easy to un-derstand by multidisciplinary sciences.

At the Geo-log category, the contestants had to answer ba-sic questions related to geolo-gy. After that, from 100 Geolog parti cipant teams, at the end 6 teams were selected to move to the final round where they were tested for their understanding on the basic geology concepts such as mapping and rock des-cription.

Rio said he experienced some obstacles to participate in the competition, especially relat-ed to the finance. Rio said his team did not have enough mo-ney to cover the transport to In-dia, but the ITB’s Engineering Geology Study Program provid-ed the financial assistance so that Rio and the team were able to fly to India and participate in the competition. Rio said he hoped ITB will continue to sup-port its students to participate in the competitions both natio-nally and internationally. (TPP)

during the vacuum of po-wer after Japan surren-dered to the Allies on Au-gust 15, 1945.

Prior to the Proclama-tion of Independence, the founders of the nation were united in the Investigation Agency for Preparation of Independence (BPUPK) who convened on May 29 to June 1, 1945, to formulate the foundation of the coun-try, known as Pancasila, which offered a new idea on the statehood to the world. Up to now, the world is ge-nerally a dichotomy bet-ween a theocracy and a secular state.

“However, with the prin-ciple of Belief in One and Only God, Pancasila offers a middle ground not to be a theocracy nor a secular state. This middle way of-fered by Pancasila is what needed to face the geopoli-tical dynamics,” said Budi.

The book launching was organized by President Uni-versity, FHUI and Young Nationalist Discussion Fo-rum, supported by Krish-na Strategic Policy Firm. The event was attended by noted figures such as For-mer RI Military Command-er General Ret. Muldoko as the keynote speaker, For-mer Governor of Natio nal Defense Institute (Lem-hannas) Prof. Budi Susilo Soepandji and Prof. Dadan Umar Daihani from Lem-hanas. (TPP)

at the restaurant, running too many errands, losing 60 per-cent of the salary for transpor-tation and the schedule was not flexible,” said Pieter.

From beginning until now Pie ter’s business is going well. The turnover per day is about Rp1.5 million and the gross profit can reach Rp30 million per month.

The main challenge he faces is related to the workforce, es-

pecially in managing the sche-dule of working hours for each employee since they are stu-dents with different hours they need for classes and student ac-tivities.

Pieter said his dream is to franchise his business so that Lunch Box outlets are spread-ing in the big cities in Indonesia.

You should try the Launch Box when you’re at the Presi-dent University! (Widya/TPP)

Pieter Immanuel Sinaga, the inventor of Launch Box

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SENIOR LIVING

5 Tourist Destinations for Traveling with Seniors

It is quite tricky in determining where to go for traveling with elderly. The reason is the se-nior people have limitations and they are not as strong as the younger ones. They tend to get tired easily, though their spirit is still high to explore the premise. Therefore, you should choose the tourist destination wisely so that the elderly can enjoy the holiday as much as you.

1. Flower Garden or Park A flower garden like Gardens By The Bay in

Singapore is a good place to visit with seniors. Most old people love the beauty and the serene atmosphere of a garden like that. They can also enjoy the fresh air while looking around the col-orful flowers and produce interesting photos when their pictures are taken.

2. Resort or Relaxing SpaOld parents certainly will like it if you ask

them to go for relaxing. So, try to book 2 full days in a resort that is quiet enough, with a view of a beach or a beautiful mountain. Sit back and relax while chatting with them and share stories that have not been told yet.

3. Historical PlaceElderly do tend to like nostalgia and remem-

ber the past. Historical tour is not necessarily always boring. Touring the Borobudur Temple or Old Town provides so many interesting ob-jects. Choose a beautiful place with a facility to rest and easy to walk around.

4. MuseumIf your parents like museums, choose a mu-

seum that is modern enough, so you will not get bored while accompanying them. One of the modern and informative museums for visit is Museum Angkut in Batu, Malang. Prepare the camera to take pictures of vintage things there.

5. Culinary TourThis is the easiest alternative. You just find

out their favorite foods, then take them to the best restaurant in serving the foods. However, do not forget to know exactly whether they have to avoid some certain food ingredients. You do not want their health to drop after having the meal, right?

Taking your parents to travel together is cer-tainly fun and will generate a deep impression on you and your parents. Try to remember once again, when was the last time you really en-joyed the time traveling together with them? (TPP)

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LIFESTYLE

Ucok Durian: Tasty, Good

Services and Facilities

I went to Medan in early December and for some reason what I thought was only Ucok Durian. May-be because it’s been viral after visited by President Jokowi or just curious why many people sell the duri-an online in Jakarta.

My first visit to the durian store was on the morn-ing of December 2, 2017 at 11:00 pm. By using an online taxi, I went to the store which is quite close to my hotel.

Once at the store, I could see the cashier was busy serving customers who were making payments or picking the durian packages for take-out.

Ucok Durian prepares the packages nicely for take-out with the prices ranging from Rp125,000 for the smallest to Rp550,000 for the biggest.

I asked for 2 durians for dine-in with my wife, and ... Ucok durian is indeed so delicious. I think it’s best for you to try yourself or you can guess the taste from the picture I took below. I really like it and what I can say this durian is very creamy and makes you want more.

Ucok Durian also guarantee its products so that if the customer does not like the durian given, they can exchange it with another.

Ucok Durian only accepts cash and you can with-draw money from ATMs in the store if you run out of cash. The 200-seat store is also completed with toi-lets and musholla, making the customers feel at home while enjoying the durian.

A firm statement was displayed on almost every corner of the dining place, saying Ucok Durian does not have any branch and does not sell online. Any

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Mr. Zainal Abidin Chaniago or Ucok, Ucok Durian Owner

complaint from other than the store will not be res-ponded.

But do not worry, Ucok Durian takes the orders for delivery in Medan and Jabodetabek area by the phone number printed on the board. Additional menus are also available like pancakes, dodol (sweets), cendol and ice cream, with durian flavor of course.

I glimpsed Mr. Zainal, the owner Ucok Durian, briefly so I did not have a change to speak to him. On my last day in Medan or the next day, I went back at 5.30 pm. I was surprised to find the store was packed with customers and durians piled up, while the own-er was watching.

This time I got the chance to talk with Mr. Zainal Abidin Chaniago or Ucok, but not for long because I had to catch the train to Kualanamu Airport.

“25 Years ago, I was selling durian at the corner of Jalan Iskandar Muda in front of a store,” said Ucok, adding he could only open his business after dusk, af-ter the store was closed.

Now Ucok is assisted by 30 employees and every day he can sell 3,000 durians. In holidays 7,000 du-rians are sold with a turnover per day reaches Rp75 million.

It is a great achievement for Ucok. His store be-comes a favorite destination for tourists who want to eat fine durian with good services and complete faci-lities in the middle of the city.

Ucok Durian is located on Jalan K.H Wahid Hasyim Medan City. (Rachmat/TPP)

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GOLF

Justin Rose Wins Indonesian

Masters 2017 Golf

Tournament

Weather disturbances, which forced the organizer to delay some rounds and rear-ranged the schedule, did not affect the performance of the world number six golfer. After finishing 10 holes in the third round on Sunday morning, Rose started the fourth round

after 30 minutes break.Rose opened the game in

the fourth round with a bir-die (a stroke below par) on the third hole before continu-ing his winning run with four consecutive birdies from the fifth hole and an eagle (two under par) in the ninth hole.

Rose’s domination was not in-terrupted as he added three more birdies in the next four holes, bringing the total score to 29.

The 2016 Olympic gold medalist once made a bogey (one stroke above par) in the 16th hole, but he entertained the Royale Jakarta Golf Club audience with a birdie in the 18th hole to win a total score of 29-under par (259).

The second position was won by Phachara Khongwat-mai from Thailand with the score of 65, while Zimbabwe’s Scott Vincent completed the fourth round with a score of 69 and won the third place in the Indonesian Masters 2017 as the closing tournament of

the Asian Tour.Meanwhile, Indian golf-

er S. Chikkarangappa grabbed the Tour Card, ousting Chinese golfer Liu Yan-wei in last position of 61 in the Asian Tour Order of Merit. He is entitled to play in the Asian Tour next year.

Regarding the achieve-ments of the national golf-ers in the Indonesia Mas-ters 2017 tournament, George Gandranata came out as the best with a to-tal score of 287 (one under par). He is in the position 56 (T56), while the second best was Rory Hie with the score of 288 (even par) and in the position T59. (TPP)

British Justin Rose won the Indonesian Masters 2017 golf tournament held at the Royale Jakarta Golf Club ending on Sunday (12/17). He continued to lead until the last round with the final score of 10 below par (62).

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