VOL.5 no.4 2018 IndoConnectCONNECTING INDONESIANS IN SINGAPORE Winning Hearts & Minds A quiet revolution is taking place in Indonesian education Also inside: Raising AWAREness of Women‘s Issues ¦ High Tea & High Heels ¦ Lake Toba - Distinctive, Dramatic, Delightlful www.indoconnectsingapore.com | Vol 5 No 4 2017 | IndoConnect A The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Singapore and IndoConnect presents IBU POWER 2018Women ’s ASEAN CONFERENCE & AWARDS Dharma Wanita Persatuan KBRI Singapura Celebrating Harmony at Home, in the Work Place and Wellness in the Mind & Body April 2018 For more information: Tel: +65 6735 2972 Email: [email protected] is published by SUNMEDIA communication with soul www.sunmediaonline.com B IndoConnect | Vol 5 No 4 2017 | www.indoconnectsingapore.com Editor’s Note Connecting through Education, Philanthropy and Travel et me begin by wishing all of you, our inspirational readers, a healthy, prosperous and fulfilling new year. I am sure you must have seen the video message by H E a Ngurah Swajaya wishing you a great 2018 and also announcing the “Ibu Power” Award and Ibu Conference 2018. This momentous Levent will be held in conjunction with “Hari Ibu Kartini”, an important proponent of women’s education. In the month of April we look forward to your participation at this year’s Ibu Power Conference. Our cover story brings you a bird’s eye view of this collaboration in the field of education as revealed through our interview with the Education and Cultural Attache, Professor Aisyah, at the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore. Indoconnect also had a collaboration ‘High Tea and High Heels’ with the Indonesian Diaspora, where we were privileged to have as our Guest of Honour, Ibu Mahaswi Swajaya, the wife of HE Ngurah Swajaya, the Indonesian envoy in Singapore. Of immense interest and a huge success was the collaboration between Indonesia designer NES and Singapore jewellery house Caratell. In the year 2018 IndoConnect aims to provide many more platforms for such collaborations so if you have businesses or ideas to share, we would be most happy to support and cover these. Many Indonesian women who have just moved to Singapore seek meaningful ways to integrate and sometimes they may even be in need of help. In our focus on philanthropy and stories of contribution we bring you one such inspirational and very humane story that of the Singapore-based advocacy group AWARE, to whom women living in Singapore can reach out to in their hour of need. On a lighter note we also bring you a report on the recognition of Indonesian filmmakers at the 28th SGIFF Silver Screen Awards. Travel, as we all know is a great people-to-people connector. So, though Singapore continues to be a favourite destination of Indonesians, the Indonesian government is promoting a slew of exciting new places for Singaporeans to explore. “You all know Bali, our famous island Paradise? With improved infrastructure we will launch a programme called 10 New Bali’s,” President Widodo announced recently. Keeping in line with this strategy IndoConnect presents the first in the series of Indonesia’s ‘Ten New Destinations’. Welcome, we say to Lake Toba in North Sumatra. In our next issue we will bring you more on medical and sightseeing options in Singapore. Till then — Happy Reading ! And watch out for exciting new things from Indoconnect. Nomita Dhar Contributors Editor-in-chief Prionka RAY Martin Lukas Ranee Sahaney Prionka is an author, Martin Lukas is the She’s been a media consultant, founder of Indonesia Consulting Editor and a facilitator. She Photo Gallery. An for 15 years to the holds Post Graduate IT professional in Outlook Traveller qualifications in Ad Globalfoundries by day, group of publications & PR, and degrees in and a photographer and contributed to Hospitality Management, at heart. Seeing his Discover India, BBC as well as in English images, you will know that his passion Good Food Guide & Psychology. She is a volunteer-mentor is to capture the beauty and uniqueness and others. In the past 25 years, to teens-at-risk, and founder of In-Group, of his wonderful and lovely country, her features have been published Support Group for Youth. Prionka has lived in Indonesia. He realized that the images widely and now also in IndoConnect Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong & India, enable him to tell stories and influence magazine. and her first book, Sia was published in 2012. people to visit Indonesia. www.indoconnectsingapore.com | Vol 5 No 4 2017 | IndoConnect 1 30 04 3808 13 15 LIFESTYLE Art & CULTURE Contents 08 High Tea & High Heels: Unifying 15 Rossa in Concert - The Dazzling Cultures Through Designs Journey of 21 Years EDITOR’s NOTE 18 Singapore Jazz Festival 2018 01 Connecting through Education, 19 Indonesian Filmakers at the 28th SGIFF FASHION Philanthrophy and Travel 21 Ayat Ayat Cinta 2 Cast Visits Singapore 11 NES by hdk: Sharing Happiness 22 Behind the Scenees MERAKI Gaya 2018 13 Caratell: Creating without Borders COVER STORY PROPERTY 04 Winning Hearts & Minds WOMEN 24 December 2017 Marks Recovery Trend for Private Residential Market 16 Towaeds a Good Cause 17 Help is Around the Corner for Women in Need FOOD & BEVERAGE 16 26 Asam Pedas Tongkol Padang & Pindang Patin Palembang 27 Quickbites 21 24 10 17 22 Publisher Sun Media Pte Ltd Embassy Editorial Board Dwi K.I. Miftach Aisyah Endah Palupi Melati Sosrowidjojo Editor-in-chief Nomita Dhar Editorial Consultant 19 18 3820 S. Jaafar Alkaff Editorial Ranee Sahaney Prionka Ray HEALTH 26 Advertising & Traffic 28 SmileFocus - Regular Visits Key Swati Singh to Long-term Dental Health Photo Contributions Indonesian Embassy in Singapore TRAVEL Valerius Boenawan Michael Ozaki 36 Lake Toba - Distinctive, Dramatic & Delightful Printing Stamford Press Pte Ltd EVENTS MICA (P) 118/05/2017 ©Copyright 2017 by Sun Media Pte Ltd. All 30 Embassy Activities materials in this publication are strictly copyrighted and all rights reserved. No part of this publication 35 What’s Happening may be reproduced in whole or in part without prior written permission of the copyright holder. All facts are correct at the time of publication. While every effort has been made to ensure the PICTURE POST information that appear in this publication is 39 Lake Toba Tamed? correct at the time of production, changes do occur and Sun Media Pte Ltd shall not be liable for any errors, omissions or inaccuracies that occur. A PUBLICATION OF 20 Kramat Lane #01-02 United House Singapore 228773 TEL: (65) 6735 2972 / 1907, 2986 FAX: (65) 6735 3114 E-MAIL: [email protected] 36 30 WEB: www.sunmediaonline.com COVER STORY Winning Hearts & Minds Photos by Fuad Helmi A quiet revolution is taking place in Indonesian education that will have a tremendous impact on the development of the country’s students in the future. The Embassy of Indonesia in Singapore Education and Cultural Attaché, Professor Aisyah Endah Palupi, shares with Editor in Chief, Mrs Nomita Dhar, how Singapore can contribute and how both countries can benefit from helping each other in this area. (Centre): Education and Cultural Attaché, Professor Aisyah Endah Palupi, with Indonesian performers who took part in last year’s Chingay. rofessor please share the Indonesian language and cultural nationalism and encouraging them to get with us something education in Singapore. The spectrum Singaporeans to know Indonesia much of activities of the department is pretty better. Last, but not least, it is actively about the pursuits of involved in developing and facilitating wide as it also makes recommendations your department under the setting up of the Indonesian School P on national education policies based your steerage as Education and on observations of Singapore’s in Singapore. Culture Attache latest developments in the fields of My department is working on enhancing education, culture, research, science Please shed some light on the cooperation in the area of education, and technology. It also engages closely different aspects of the on- research, science and technology with the Indonesian Diaspora in going collaboration between between Singapore and Indonesia. We Singapore (in particular Indonesian Indonesia and Singapore on the are also involved in helping maintain students) with the idea of increasing their education front. 4 IndoConnect | Vol 5 No 4 2017 | www.indoconnectsingapore.com COVER STORY The agenda of on-going collaboration The framework of Indonesia-Singapore nation. Also, this programme aims to between Indonesia and Singapore, cooperation relationships has become be a platform for building closeness signed in the presence of President the basic foundation in developing between the academic communities Jokowi and Prime Minister Lee bilateral relations that bind each other with the representatives of Indonesia Hsien Loong, includes the Digital through mutually beneficial dialogues abroad—especially the Indonesian Economy Skills Training Programme, for substantial agreements to that end. Embassy in Singapore. It is expected Cooperation in the Field of Education, One of the programmes organized that from this close proximity and a Cooperation in the Field of Vocational by me as Education and Culture more harmonious mindset students can Education and Training, Cooperation Attaché with the Embassy of the play an important role in improving the in the Field of Higher Education Republic of Indonesia (in Singapore) direction of Indonesia’s development. and Visiting of Scholars in Academic to commemorate this celebration of The end result of these activities is the Affairs. I hope that this collaboration 50 years, is the conducting of a series acquisition of recommendations that will result in strengthening the bonds of road show activities “RISING50 will be presented to the stakeholders. between Indonesia and Singapore to GOES to CAMPUS”. These have participate and move forward together been translated into the form of FGD Please elaborate on the in maintaining high-tech education— (Focus Group Discussion), public education system of Indonesia.