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Fintech Games, The Effective Way For Financial Literacy

inesia — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 05:30:00 +0000

In general the definition of literacy is the ability of people in understanding and implementing an information. So financial literacy is the ability of a person in understanding and implementing of the financial information so that they can anticipate various obstacles that may occur.

In 2014 the financial literacy in our country was only 36 percent or 90 million people. Last year this number has increased to about 130 million people. The increased was not up to 50 percent. Still far from the government’s target that was about 75 percent.

Another case related to the condition of internet users in Indonesia, based on survey results of the Association of Internet Service Providers Indonesia, the number of internet users in 2017 has reached 143.26 million people or 54.68 percent of the total population in Indonesia, which were 262 million people.

That number has increased from 2016 which reached to 132.70 million people or 7.96 percent of the number of active internet users in Indonesia. According to the age, a group of millenial or the generation of people under 34 years old generation is the most active of the internet users.

In the population of 13-18 years old, the penetration of internet users has reached 75.5 percent, and the population of 19-34 years old has reached 74.23 percent.

PT Asuransi Jiwasraya (Persero) does not want to waste that huge opportunity (of local interent users) to increase the literacy.

Information Technology Division Chairman of Jiwasraya Insurance, Bagus Wiharjanto, said that one of the policies stated in the Work Plan and Corporate Budget (RKAP) this year is financial services based on financial technology (fintech).

It is good to think of great opportunities for the existence of fintech in recent years. If it applied in the insurance industry, fintech can create innovations that facilitate the insured process, such as micro insurance and personal accident.

The innovations in insurance industry can change the way people view of the industry and also help improve its financial literacy. The Colaboration with Fintech could be a great opportunity for education, both for customers and the public. The idea is quite effective considering the financial services transaction from the new digital insurance has just reached four percent.

“We have launched the apliaction of JS Simple Protection and JS Mikro Sahabat this year,” said Bagus. furthermore, he also mentioned that the cooperation between the state-owned enteprises insurance company, Asuransi Jiwasraya and fintech will create a fintech insurance application, then the features in the application will develop to such as gamification feature. The purpose of this gamification is to create education through the form of games as a part of financial literacy.

“To introduce the products, we fill the game elements into the app as part of the literacy. Hopefully, this year it will run. Fintech as the application, and the implementation (of the idea) through the application or mobile app,” he explained.

Source: Antara

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2018 Fintech Fair: Socializing Financial Literacy

inesia — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 05:30:34 +0000

A great event of financial technology (fintech) industry had been held in Jakarta. The event with the title of The 2018 Indonesia Fintech Fair was expected to be an appropriate event for some fintech companies to improve the public awareness about technology-based lending services and companies or more popularly called as Peer to Peer Lending or P2P Lending.

The 2018 Indonesia Fintech Fair was the first event that held start this year. It took the theme of “Fintech Transforming Life” and was organized by the Fintech Indonesia Association (Aftech) in Jakarta. The purpose of this financial technology community event was to broaden the education and information on the conventional tekfin and shariah tekfin to innovate teh alternative solutions to gain the financial access for wider community.

With a theme that emphasiz the consumer protection, the 2018 Indonesia Fintech Fair was attended by all stakeholders of the financial technology industry ecosystem from government, bankers, fintech service providers, which are Investree, and other fintech companies to interact directly with public in the panel discussions.

During the event there were also various exhibitions, the product and service presentations, and games. Co-Founder and CEO of PT Investree Radhika Jaya (Investree) Adrian Gunadi said the involving of the community to improve the awareness and diversification of products and services is very important, because it could strengthen the protection of the consumers.

Except of that, Adrian who also serves as Vice Chairman of Aftech said that the event became an opportunity for the association to educate the fintech businessmen to run the business with a sense of full responsibility and transparent.

“We see that the event is the right momentum and a good opportunity to share the awareness because all stakeholders will be attended and join with people whether aware or not to the benefits of tekfin,” said Adrian.

In the future, Investree will introduce the detail of their newest products and services based on sharia. These products are the Sharia payment service based on Invoice Financing and the Sharia Online Seller Financing for Online Store.

The Definition of the Sharia payment service is a funding product guaranteed by invoices, designed to apply the sharia method through Akad Al Qardh for bailout and Akad Wakalah Bil Ujrah for gaining the profit or ujrah.

While the Sharia Online Seller Financing is a working capital financial service for online store sellers who have an active store on the e-commerce platform of Investree partners. This transaction is also using sharia mehods (Akad Murabahah and Wakalah) with monthly installment payment scheme and the 12 month of period.

Sixty-Four Fintech Approved by OJK

The improvement of fintech industry seems to get a positive response. The Financial Services Authority (OJK) as the regulator of the financial services industry has recorded the number of registered fintech until June 2018, which are already 64 fintech. The number has increased compared to previous time. On April 2018, OJK had registered 51 fintech companies.

According to the official website of OJK, it has informed that until now only one fintech company that get permission, which is Danamas. While the latest one that registered on June 8, 2018 was Kreditcepat.

Until April 2018, the fintech peer to peer lending industry had distributed Rp 5.42 trillion. The value had increased 111.23% compared to December 2018. While the ratio of non-performing loans (NPL) from fintech lending had reached 0.53% in April 2018. The value had decreased compared to December 2017 which reached 0.99%. While the amount of borrowers at April 2018 had reached 1.47 million entities, up 468.79% year to date. Then the number of lenders had reached 162,373 entities, up 60.86% year to date.

Source: Antara

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Indonesian Coal and Rubber Business is Still Promising

inesia — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 05:30:46 +0000

Vice Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), Arcandra Tahar, said that the coal business is still very promising in Indonesia. “Recently The coal business is still increasing due to the high necessity for energy. Even until 2050, energy mix in Indonesia is still 25 percent that sourced from coal. Even in 2025, it will be just about 30 percent of energy mix,” he said.

According to him, coal is an affordable price of energy. However, the coal does not exist in all regions, therefore it needs to be distributed to the areas without coal. “In this case, it does not mean that the price can be cheaper so it needs a balance between the energy and the price. Coal is an affordable price of energy. Compared to renewable energy that can be more expensive than Coal,” he said.

His ministry also confirmed that the government is also committed to developing renewable energy. However, according to energy mix, renewable energy is targeted at 23 percent. While coal is higher than that. “Therefore, coal with renewable energy must be synergized, and coal will still be used and renewable energy will be pushed,” he said.

Reduce Import

Meanwhile the Ministry of Industry has boosted the increase of investment in domestic plastics and rubber industries to strengthen the manufacturing structure to push the positive value and reduce imported raw materials. “Plastics and rubber industry is the backbone that is closely linked to other industries that can support national development,” Secretary General of the Ministry of Industry Haris Munandar said.

In order to attract investors, according to Haris, the government has issued various strategic programs and policies in creating a conducive business condition, and also, providing simplification for some licensing process and starting a business in Indonesia. “For example, incentives for export oriented for labor-intensive industry and the industries that develop innovation and vocation. Ministry of Industry has also facilitated the develop of the several integrated industrial area, especially outside of Java Island, “he said.

The Secretary General has stated that the important role of plastic and rubber products as they are needed by the strategic manufacturing sectors which are integrated among other industries such as food, machinery, automotive, and electronics. “Therefore, based on the regulation ofMinistry of Industry and RIPIN, the government and the stakeholders will synergize in pushing the productivity and competitiveness of the industry,” he said.

The development of plastic and rubber industry in Indonesia is surely quite prospective. Currently the potential of the national plastic industry is supported by 925 companies with total production is reaching 4.68 million tons per year for various plastic products and able to provide jobs for 37,327 people.

“The demand for national plastic products is 4.6 million tons now, increase five percent in the last five years,” Haris said. He also hopes that local plastic products can win the local market and able to compete in international market.

Meanwhile, according to rubber commodities, Indonesia is one of the main producing countries of natural rubber with the production of 4 million tons per year. National natural rubber production can still be increased considering to the potential of the existing land that reaches 3.5 million hectares. Furthermore, supported by research and development (R&D) program conducted by government, educational institutions and private sectors.

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Indonesian Market Became Target of China’s Textile Industry

inesia — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 05:30:51 +0000

Thousands sheet of neatly lined fabrics filled the area of China Textile City International Convention and Exhibition Center, where became the site of the 2018 Keqiao Textile Expo in Shaoxing, China. The spring exhibition, which included 1,392 booths and 540 textile companies, also offered a variety of textile products, consist of clothing, curtains, and hijab, which were sold on demand.

2018 Keqiao Textile Expo opened opportunities for textile and garment enterprises to market their products locally and internationally. A textile company that had never missed the exhibition in Shaoxing City was Shaoxing Mulinsen Textile Co. Ltd. which was always targeting buyers and Indonesian company.

Director of Shaoxing Mulinsen Faye Wang said thatits biggest market was Indonesia. In fact, according to him, half of the company’s revenue was from the exports to Indonesia. “Our revenue last year reached 100 billion US dollars and 50 billion US dollars was from sales to Indonesia,” he said.

The companies’ target cities in Indonesia were Bandung and Jakarta. “More sale were at Bandung, and a few (other) at Jakarta,” he said. This year Faye’s company was anticipating a 25 percent increase in exports to Indonesia by relying on woven and polyester products.

Faye’s company also marketed its products to Southeast Asian countries (50-60 percent of total exports), and also, to Western countries such as Los Angeles US, Italy and France. Within a year, his company followed six exhibitions, such as in Canton and Shanghai, which could contribute up to 20 percent to corporate income.

Except of served direct purchases, Faye’s company accepted orders through its electronic commerce services by using the popular Alibaba application in China.

Became a Target

Just like Shaoxing Mulisen, Sanmai Fabric textile company also made Indonesia as one of the main markets for their products. Sanmai Fabric’s representative,Diz Qian, said that his company earned $ 2 million in revenue from the exports to Indonesia.

“Indonesia is the second country of our target market, after Sri Lanka,” he said. He also added that from the exports to Sri Lanka, the company could earn 3 million US dollars per year or one-fifth of the company’s annually revenue which was 15 million US dollars. “So the total percentage of the exports to ASEAN countries was about 30 percent,” he said.

The company marketed the P/D and metallic materials with glittering beads that likekby South Asian people. Except of Indonesia and Sri Lanka, Sanmai Fabric also marketed its products to North America such as Mexico and Los Angeles, also toSouth America and Europe.

Diz Qian said his company also often participated in the exhibition, which allowed the textile industry to expand the market. “It can even go up twice,” said Diz Qian, wherehis company’s factories operated in Shaoxing and Fujian.

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Santripreneur Can Contribute to Indonesian Economy

inesia — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 05:30:11 +0000

Pondok pesantren (ponpes) potentially had to support the implementation of the fourth industrial revolution in Indonesia. This was based on the roadmap of Making Indonesia 4.0, where one of the national priority steps that needed to be implemented was to empower of Indonesian company especially micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME).

“Recently ponpes has taken a part in encouraging the economic growth, because many of them which have built the cooperatives, develop the various business units, both small and medium scale, and also, have business incubators,” said Minister of Industry Airlangga Hartarto.

Ministry of Industry has intensively carrying out the activities of developing of new industrial entrepreneurs and the development of industrial units in the pesantren. It was called the Santripreneur program. “Almost 70 percent of Indonesian businessmen are in MSME sector. This is a quite strong asset to face the industrial revolution 4.0,” said Airlangga.

Airlangga added that ponpes had great potential to create new entrepreneurs and grow the small and medium industries. “This is certainly a gift from God that we should be grateful for. Our potential is very large that supported by a lot of campuses and pesantrens in Indonesia which is not exist in other countries in the world,” he added.

Based on data from the Ministry of Religious Affairs, during the year 2014-2015, in Indonesia there were 28,961 ponpes spread all of the province which had santri of more than 4 million people. From the total of ponpes, 23,331 ponpes or 80 percent of them were in 4 provinces, which were West Java, East Java, Central Java and Banten.

Minister of industry optimistically said that with the development of the digital era today, the students could be a strategic change agent in building the nation and the Indonesian economy in the future. For that reason, Indonesian santri must study seriously in science, both religion and entrepreneurship. They, the majority of millenial generation, also need to understand the latest technology.

Moreover, in the next 10 years, Indonesia would havethe demographic or momentum bonus when the population was dominated by productive age (ages 15-64 had reached 70 percent). Currently Indonesia’s economy is ranked 16th in the world. We believe, according to aspirations in Making Indonesia 4.0, it can be a country that is in the top 10 of the world’s strongest economies by 2030.

Therefore, the ministry of industry was committed to support the development of national Small Medium Industry (IKM) in the era of digital economy, by building an e-commerce platform called e-Smart IKM. The Government have been working with a number of domestic marketplaces to provide IKM e-Smart workshops to several regions in Indonesia, so santri should also take this opportunity.

Until now, there were 1,730 IKM businessmen who have participated in IKM e-Smart workshops. By 2019, The ministry of industry would target to invite up to 10 thousand IKM businessmen in Indonesia to attend the workshop. Government will also build technology centers to improve the acces of IKM to technology acquisitions and provide the mentoring support to encourage the innovation.

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Pesantrenpreuner, Economic Empowerment Based On Boarding School

inesia — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 05:30:09 +0000

Pesantrenpreneur Program already initiated by the Indonesian Young Entrepreneurs Association (HIPMI) and inaugurated by President Joko Widodo. The program will be run in an integrated steps, starting from training, mentoring, capitalization, to marketing.

One of the early realization of Pesantrenpreneur Program is the opening of Islamic concept stores called “Ummart” in 10 pesantren which become a medium of marketing for local pesantren products and local Micro Small Medium Enterprise products around the pesantren.

Jokowi has supported all programs about people’s economic empowerment since the beginning. Moreover, he also concerns to increase the development of country’s sharia economy. The new perspectives on the current economic conditions were told to santri. The economic disruption era that marked by the technology based on sharing economy needed to be internalized to santri’s business understanding.

Pesantrenpreneur itself, was a program of strengthening people’s economy based on boarding schools. This program involved HIPMI which fully support by the government, the Indonesian Retail Entrepreneurs Association (Aprindo), and various others.

The purpose of Pesantrenpreneur is to mobilize the economics of young santri to the village areas which is the basis of pesantren. They will support each other with the concept of building from the grass root that runs by the government.

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Government Committed to Increase Value Added of Indonesian Coffee

inesia — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 03:19:14 +0000

The Ministry of Industry is committed to increase the value added of coffee in Indonesia, which is the fourth biggest coffee producing country in the world after Brazil, Vietnam and Colombia. “We are committed to increasing the value added of coffee through the support of machine, so after roasting and packaging, the coffee can have the value added,” said Minister of Industry Airlangga Hartarto.

Indonesia produced 639,000 tons of coffee beans in 2017 or about 8 percent of world coffee production, with the composition of 72.84 percent is robusta and 27.16 percent of arabica. Indonesia also has various types of specialty coffee that known in the world, including luwak coffee with typical flavor and aroma according to its geographical indications which is the excellence of Indonesia.

Until now there are 22 Geographical Indications for Indonesian Coffee. Starting from Gayo Arabica Coffee, Arabica Toraja Coffee, to the latest are Robusta Pupuan Bali Coffee, Arabica Sumatera Koerintji Coffee, Liberika Tungkal Jambi Coffee, and Liberika Rangsang Meranti Coffee.

“For Temanggung regency, we appreciate the step of Government of Temanggung Regency that already have registered two Geographical Indications Coffee from Temanggung that are Arabica Sindoro-Sumbing Java Coffee and Robusta Temanggung Coffee,” said Airlangga.

He continued, with country’s potential market that is still increasing, the policy development of the coffee processing industry, through the increase of human resources capacity such as baristas, roasters, and coffee testers (cupper). Except of that, the increase of value added of country’s coffee beans, and the improving of the quality of processed coffee which is mainly the roasted coffee through the capability of roasting technology.

One of the efforts to increase human resources was the Ministry of Industry had compiled the Standard of Indonesian National Work Competence (SKKNI) for coffee processing industry on 2017. It is expected that SKKNI can be implemented by national coffee stakeholders in the future.

Furthermore, in accordance to the mandate of Plantation Regulation No. 39 of 2014 on Plantations, a Coffee Council of Indonesia (Dekopi) was established in Yogyakarta on December 9, 2017 and continued with the inauguration of the Dekopi Board on 11 March 2018 for the period of 2018-2022. “These programs are the government’s commitment for the development of national coffee commodities,” said Minister of Industry.

The development of country’s processed coffee industry and specialty coffee is still very good, considering the average of Indonesian’s coffee consumption is 1.1 kg per capita per year. It is far below coffee importing countries such as; US is 4.3 kg, Japan is 3.4 kg, Austria is 7.6 kg, Belgium is 8.0 kg, Norway is 10.6 kg, and Finland is 11.4 kg per capita per year.

The strength of the national coffee processing industry is not only supported by the large domestic market but also the increasing of capability of the national coffee processing industry to export to international markets, especially to developing countries such as Asia, Middle East, and Africa, except of conventional export destinations. “Hopefully in the future, Indonesia can become the main exporter of roasted beans in Asia and (all over) the world,” Airlangga said.

Export Rose 10 Percent

Meanwhile, the national coffee processing industry was able to significantly contribute to the country’s foreign income from export value that reaching 469.4 million US dollars in 2017, up to 10 percent from the previous year. According to Minister of Industry, the positive of the export value of coffee was due to several factors, such as the increased of productivity in the industrial sector and the rising of commodity prices.

Therefore, we intensively boost the competitiveness of the national coffee processing industry, so it can compete in the global arena. Airlangga also said that the Ministry of Industry always supports the promotion of coffee by including coffee in the exhibitions in various countries.

Director General of Agro Industry of Ministry of Industry, Panggah Susanto, said that in order to increase the value of national industry including coffee processing sector in globalization era of trade and free market, it needed strategic efforts to boost its competitiveness and productivity.

Among of the efforts were the using of technology that increase the efficiency and innovation, improving the quality of product through the implementation of the quality of management system and food safety, and the development of product diversification to adjust of the market demand.

“With the country’s potential market that still has developed, the policy of the development of country’s coffee processing industry also needed the increase of human resource (HR) capacity, such as barista, roater, and coffee tester or cupper,” said Panggah.

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Indonesia Ready to Face Industrial Revolution 4.0

inesia — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 05:30:27 +0000

The researcher of Industry and Trade Departement at Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Endang S. Soesilowati, had suggested six points to face the Industrial Revolution 4.0, which was a challenge for domestic workers.

For the industry, it is hoped that the decision of the automation just work that are heavy and physically and mindly exhausting. Meanwhile the subsidy needed to be given to small industries in order to still stand facing the automation in the Industrial Revolution 4.0.

According to LIPI, the second point was about the education curriculum that expected more practical than theoretical. It needed more professional and innovative teachers, and also the teaching materials had to be arranged based on age, ability, and necessity.

It should be reconfirmed the commitment of the 12 years old of compulsory education program, so it impacts on the quality of the workforce. The third point was about the training institutions that must have the same standards among each other which were supported by industrial cooperation. The training materials should also be compiled by the involving of industry, and it was not only based on hard skills, but also soft skills.

Hard skills was the understanding of science, technology, and technical skills that related to their field. Meanwhile, soft skills is a person’s skills in communicating with others (interpersonal skills) and personal manner. The fourth point was for the coach who should own the official certification, and also the guest coach from the industry.

For the certification process, there should be a simplification of process and the certainty step and time of certification mechanism. The incentives for companies that recruit the certified workers should also be provided. Meanwhile, the fifth point was about the internship that considered to have cooperation between schools and industrial sectors to facilitate the posting of apprentices. Industry was also encouraged to post the apprentices based on each ability.

The last point is that there should be synchronization of regulations, especially on the requirements to meet the educational necessity, certification, internship that released by the ministries. The applying of digitalization of training and education should also be done together.

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Indonesia-Singapore Were Ready to Collaborate to Build ‘Digital Hub’

inesia — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 05:30:06 +0000

The governments of Indonesia and Singapore were ready to collaborate to build an integrated digital community or digital hub area at ASEAN level, as a respond to the industry revolution 4.0. “We aware of this change of era, it needs to prepare various appropriate steps, so that it will bring positive impact to the economy and starting business in Indonesia,” said Indonesia’s Minister of Industry Airlangga Hartarto.

Airlangga said that after his meeting with Singapore’s Minister of Communication and Information, S. Iswaran. Minister of Industry explained that, in the preparation of the implementation of Industry 4.0, the Indonesian government had launched the roadmap of Making Indonesia 4.0 which was inaugurated by the President of Indonesia Joko Widodo.

“So, there is a clear direction for the development of the competitiveness of our manufacturing sector in the future, including our targets,” he said. Based on the Making Indonesia 4.0, there were five manufacturing sectors that will focus on the early stages, which were the food and beverage industry, textiles and apparel, automotive, electronics and chemicals.

“The target is Indonesia will be the seventh strongest economy country in the world in 2030. In fact, in 2050, Indonesia is efforted to be ranked fourth in the world,” he explained. Airlangga believed this digital economic cooperation will make the increase forwardof the economy of Indonesia and Singapore. Furthermore, it will potentially make the increased investment and competence of human resources (HR), and also, the transfer of technology and innovation.

These positive impacts were suit with the 10 national priority steps in Making Indonesia 4.0. “For example, building a national digital infrastructure, improving the quality of human resources, and the development of innovative ecosystems,” he said.

In the effort to support the development of the digital economy in Indonesia, the Ministry of Industry had facilitated through built of incubation buildings for startup businesses, such as Bandung Techno Park, Bali Creative Industry Center (BCIC) or TohpaTI Center, Incubator Business Center in Semarang, Makassar Technopark, and Mobile Design Center in Batam.

For Indonesia-Singapore cooperation, the potential of ideal digital hub location was in Batam, because it was nearest and strategic. “We and also with the private sector boost the development of Nongsa Digital Park in Batam,” said Airlangga. These facilities became the basis of innovation and creativity for Indonesian young generation who wanted to develop software, web, application, film and animation, and also, other digital programs.

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Indonesian Halal Restaurant Opened In Kazan Russia

inesia — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 05:12:27 +0000

The Tatarstan residents in Russia could enjoy the Indonesian specialties food such as fried rice, fried noodle, and fried banana, through the opening of the first Indonesian halal restaurant named Indo Food that owned by Miratullo Saidov, a resident of Tatarstan whom the alumni of the State Islamic University (UIN) Malang, East Java, along with local businessmen, Ayrat Khakimov, Ii GUM, Kazan shopping center.

The Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, M. Wahid Supriyadi, on his attendance at the International conference of “Russia-Islamic World: Kazan Summit 2018” took time to enjoy the meal at the restaurant. Wahid said that the promotion of Indonesian culture and Indonesian food with the concept of fast food was very effective, because it was easy to enjoy, and of course, the price was quite affordable, and halal certified.

Moreover, the Republic of Tatarstan is a state in Russia that the majority of the population is muslim. “There are about 25 million Muslims in Russia, meaning that halal products have great opportunities,” he said. Miratullo, Ayrat and the chef had visited Moscow after informed thatthere was the Indonesian Culinary Festival held by the Indonesian Embassy and Grabli, the popular restaurant franchise in Moscow.

During the meeting, Ambassador Wahid promised to send chef to Kazan to give training. “We are planning to open several more branches in Tatarstan, and Insya Allah, we can expand into several malls in Moscow,” Miratullo said.

Although not officially opened yet, Indo Food restaurant already attended by the customers who were mostly students. The price of one portion of fried noodles is quite cheap, 120 rubles or equivalent to Rp27,000. Some dishes had been tested and would become the main menu soon, which are fried rice, fried noodle, fried banana, fried mushroom and fried chicken.

The upcoming is meatballs soup and chicken soup. According to the plan, the restaurant would do soft opening on May 2018, and Ambassador Wahid Supriyadi was asked to do grand opening after Eid al-Fitr. Therefore, Ambassador Wahid promised to bring a team of Indonesian cultural arts diplomacy, except of invitedthe expert of Indonesian culinary.

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