by: Marty M. Natalegawa
By any measure, the first decade of the 21st century has been a momentous one for Indonesia. The decade witnessed the transformation of Indonesia into what has been hailed as the third largest democracy in the world.
As a result, some one quarter billion of humanity now enjoys the civil and political rights, in addition to economic and social rights hitherto denied them. A solid evidence that democracy, Islam and modernity can go hand in hand.
Not least, the past decade has proven another indisputable fact: the resilience of the Indonesian nation. Where once political obituaries were written about the demise of Indonesia gripped by multi dimensional crisis, not least separatist threats, Indonesia today is thriving as never before. Above all, where once self-generated doubts were common among some quarters about Indonesia’s role in the world, today opportunities abound. ....
Indonesia’s aid for Haiti and a delegation of 81 people have arrived in neighboring Dominican Republic on Wednesday evening after leaving from Honolulu.
Dalam rangka memperkenalkan budaya Indonesia di Toruń, KBRI Warsawa bekerjasama dengan Jurusan Etnologi Universitas Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Red Cross dan Museum Etnografi Toruń serta Warsaw Gamelan Group (karawitan) pada tanggal 15-16 Januari 2010 menyelenggarakan acara ”Indonesian Carnival” berupa pertunjukan wayang kulit, tarian Jawa dan Bali, pameran lukisan Bali, workshop berbagai tarian tradisional Indonesia, dan pemutaran film nasional..jpg)
Hari Rabu kemarin (5/1) berturut-turut pejabat Kantor Kepresidenan Kazimierz Kuberski, Penasehat Perdana Menteri Wojciech Czajka, pejabat Kementerian Luar Negeri Dubes Krzystof Majka, Wakil Kepala Protokol Diplomatik Margorzata Latkiewicz-Pawlak, dan Ketua Asosiasi Parlement Polandia – Indonesia Maciej Orzechowski hadir di KBRI Warsawa untuk menyampaikan dukacita kepada Pemerintah dan rakyat Indonesia melalui Dubes RI untuk Republik Polandia Hazairin Pohan sehubungan dengan wafatnya Bapak KH Abdurrahman Wahid, Presiden Republik Indonesia ke-4 pada tanggal 30 Desember 2009 yang lalu.
Indonesian Ambassador to Poland Hazairin Pohan received in his office of Mufti Tomasz Miskiewicz of the Islamic Religious Union in Poland with his assistant Ms Dagmara Sulkiewicz who came to discuss the visit to Indonesia to establish contacts with the Indonesian Council of Ulemas (MUI) and the preparation of the Indonesian Days Program at Bialystok in March 2010.
Seni wayang kulit sukses dalam pertunjukan utama mengawali Festival ke-5 “Lubelskie Betlejem” (Betlehem di Lublin) yang diselenggarakan oleh Teater Andersena di Lublin Sabtu (19/12) yang lalu.
(ANTARA News) - "Saya akan berangkat bulan Desember ini ke Indonesia, tanah air saya yang kedua. Saya sangat merindukan teman-teman lama, dan tentu berbagai jenis kuisinnya. Rindu ini saya pendam sudah 2 tahun, biasanya saya pulang ke Indonesia setiap tahun," ucap Andrzej "Nusantara" Wawrzyniak (baca: Andzei Vavziniak), Direktur Museum Asia Pasifik yang fasih berbahasa Indonesia. Meskipun telah berusia 78 tahun, Bapak Andrzej tetap aktif dalam berbagai acara diplomatic circles di Warsawa.
