Day: April 10, 2023

Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Indonesian Press Council has urged mainstream media to build public trust by producing more quality news on social media.Head of the Press Council’s Education, Training, and Professional Development CommissionPaulus Tri Agung Kristantosaid here on Monday that social media is the first source of information and the most accessed by the public. Mainstream media becomes a reference to verify the truth of information obtained from social media, he added. In accordance with the council’s regulations, there are two types of social media accounts that are protected, namely social media directly affiliated with press companies and social media managed by journalists or media workers directly affiliated with press companies. “Those are protected by the Press Council, and the Council has an obligation to encourage them to build public trust,” he said. However, he reminded that social media accounts managed by journalists or media workers who are not affiliated with press companies and social media managed by content creators are not part of the mainstream media and are not protected under the Council’s regulation. He said that social media has become a place or forum or platform for the press, which means content produced through it is part of the press. “It is social media but become part of the mainstream media in accordance with Law No. 40 of 1999,” he said, stressing the need to push social media content creators to produce quality content. ccording to him, public trust in mainstream media is heavily influenced by platform policies such as Google algorithms. This year, he said, Google is no longer prioritizing clickbait content so mainstream media and social media must present quality news. “Mainstream media, including those that use social media to distribute (content) and become their platforms, have to build great news and content to build trust,” he said.

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Denpasar, Bali (ANTARA) – Head of the Tourism Office of Bali Province nanospell-typoTjoknanospell-typoBagus nanospell-typoPemayun predicted that the increase in the number of domestic tourists visiting the province would start to occur seven days before the 2023 nanospell-typoEid al-nanospell-typoFitr.”D-7 before nanospell-typoEid, usually, there are many (domestic tourists), but the peak is after Eid. Truly, there are many domestic tourists during nanospell-typoEid, and it takes seven days before they start to arrive, especially those from Java Island,” he said here on Sunday. For the 2023 nanospell-typoEid holiday, he targeted an increase in domestic tourist visits to Bali to reach 20 percent from normal days. On average, domestic tourist arrivals at I nanospell-typoandgtusti nanospell-typoNgurah nanospell-typoRai Airport during normal days reach 11,000 per day. Based on the monitoring of the Bali Tourism Office, every nanospell-typoEid holiday, tourists from Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, North Sumatra, and East Kalimantan dominate the tourists visiting Bali. He further explained that, seven days before nanospell-typoEid, most tourists arrive in Bali by land transportation. Meanwhile, seven days after nanospell-typoEid, tourists arriving in the province by air usually dominate, he added. Then, tourist destinations that are predicted to be the most visited by tourists during the 2023 nanospell-typoEid holiday period are beaches, followed by tourism villages such as nanospell-typoPenglipuran, the nanospell-typoKintamani area, and Lake nanospell-typoBatur. nanospell-typoPemayun explained that domestic tourists, especially families, choose to stay at star-rated hotels in the nanospell-typoNusa nanospell-typoDua, nanospell-typoKuta, and nanospell-typoSanur areas. He expressed the hope that other tourist destinations, such as nanospell-typoCandidasa in nanospell-typoKarangasem and nanospell-typoLovina in Buleleng, can have positive impacts as well. The tourism office head appealed to tourism players to maintain the quality of their services. Hotels, especially those that have been certified, are asked to continue to implement the Cleanliness, Health, Safety, and Environmental Sustainability (nanospell-typoCHSE) standards. Then, tourist destinations are also asked to maintain security and comfort.

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Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry held the Service Quality Improvement Training for business people in tourism and creative economic sector in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB).Lombok became one of the Super Priority Tourism Destinations (DPSP), so its human resources should be strengthened along with its infrastructure, Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno noted through a statement on Monday. This is undertaken, so that tourism and creative economy players can receive all benefits from the infrastructure development in Mandalika, such as when a sports event is held, he remarked. Resources and Institution Deputy at the Ministry Martini Mohamad Paham noted that the training was held on April 5-8, 2023, with the training participants’ target of 320 people. They comprise tourism and creative economy businesspersons in the field of tourism objects, restaurants, culinary gifting, and other creative industries that had been registered on the online platform. Through the training, the ministry strives to provide support to businesspersons in tourism and creative economy registered on the digital platform to develop their business image and reputation. This is undertaken by encouraging customers to provide positive reviews to improve tourists’ trust and loyalty. Moreover, in 2023, Indonesia once again became the host for the ASEAN Summit, which can be an opportunity for the country to promote its tourism diversity and drive economic growth, specifically in Lombok. “Through this training, businessmen are expected to be able to immediately respond to the opportunity by improving their business service quality,” he affirmed. Meanwhile, Tourism Human Resources Director at the Ministry Florida Pardosi remarked that throughout the training, participants received various materials that match their business field. These encompass hospitality, housekeeping, front office, food and beverage product and services, room division, attraction, and complaint resolution. This training was developed to provide participants with knowledge and skills to improve their capacity in providing quality services and products and to receive better customer reviews, Pardosi remarked. fter participating in the training, businesspersons will also be given mentoring and coaching clinic, so that businesses, registered and verified on the online platform, can be utilized optimally to expand their customer base. Pardosi stated that the training will also reach a total of 3,614 businesspersons in six DPPs and already had their businesses registered on the digital platform. These DPPs comprise Lake Toba, BYP (Borobudur-Yogyakarta-Prambanan), Lombok, Labuan Bajo, BTS (Bromo-Tengger-Semeru) and Wakatobi. Specifically in Lombok, the training targets 1,045 businessmen in Key Tourism Areas (KTAs): North Lombok, West Lombok, East Lombok, Central Lombok and Mataram City.

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Jakarta (ANTARA) – General Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) Chairperson Rahmat Bagja expects the 15th anniversary of Bawaslu to serve as a momentum to bolster supervision, prevention, and punishment on election fraud.”We have to take preventive measures (against election fraud), (but) when prevention is not effective, we have to improve procedures, criminal responsibility, ethics of (election) organizer, and (prevention of) legal violations,” he stated, as broadcast on Bawaslu’s YouTube channel. Bagja made the remarks at the commemoration of the 15th anniversary of Bawaslu themed “Synergies to Oversee, Protect Democracy” at the agency’s headquarters on Sunday. “We hope improvements on these aspects can be implemented during this 15th anniversary (of Bawaslu),” he stated. He also expressed optimism that Bawaslu would be able to learn from the implementation of earlier election supervisions to continually improve its performance. “This 15th anniversary is the momentum to reflect on the ability of the election supervisory body to respond to the challenges on (election) supervision in the future,” he stated. Law Number 7 of 2017 on General Elections mandated provincial-, district-, and city-level Bawaslu as permanent institutions, Bagja remarked. He also noted that the law had become a strong foundation for the roles of Bawaslu. Furthermore, Bagja expects that the supervision conducted by the agency can be synergized with other election organizers, especially the General Elections Commission (KPU), to maintain the implementation of democracy. Hence, Bagja stated that his side will engage in discussions covering several matters with the KPU in future, including the results of supervision conducted by Bawaslu. eneral elections are scheduled to take place on February 14, 2024. Earlier, Bawaslu had urged everyone, particularly political parties contesting the 2024 elections, to refrain from conducting campaign activities or agendas during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, which started on March 23 this year.

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Jakarta (ANTARA) – Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan intends to partner with an expert team from Shenzhen, China, to partake in development of Indonesia’s new capital city (IKN) Nusantara in East Kalimantan.”Indonesia expects support from China, especially an expert team from Shenzhen, to design and manage the construction of supporting cluster in IKN,” Pandjaitan stated at a press conference regarding updates on Indonesia-China cooperation in Jakarta on Monday. Pandjaitan revealed that his side had also met with the special envoy of the President of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ), who would later join the Shenzen team and the IKN team. “The special envoy of President MBZ showed enthusiasm in the collaboration with an expert team from Shenzhen. We will develop the nine clusters in IKN Nusantara,” he remarked. Pandjaitan stated that the IKN team had also garnered a high level of interest from Chinese companies. He urged the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) to recommend which companies will be able to contribute to IKN’s development. “The IKN team has received a lot of interest from Chinese companies. We hope that the NDRC can recommend qualified companies to work at IKN,” he stated. Earlier, at a meeting with chairman of NDRC, Zheng Shanjie, in Beijing, China, last week, Pandjaitan echoed President Joko Widodo’s message to invite China to invest in IKN Nusantara. “It is an honor for me to have a meeting with Chairman Shanjie because it is the first time he has met with representatives of Asian countries after he was sworn in,” Pandjaitan explained. During the meeting, they discussed several cooperation projects between Indonesia and China, including the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed train, the Global Maritime Fulcrum-Belt Road Initiative (GMF-BRI), and IKN projects. The minister also invited him to directly check the cooperation projects between the two countries. “We discussed several things, starting from the progress (in the construction) of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Train, the North Kalimantan Green Industrial Area, the GMF-BRI Project, the Herbal Center, South-South Cooperation, Vocational Training, and especially IKN Nusantara whose progress (in development) is on track and expects support from the Chinese government,” he noted.

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