Day: October 23, 2021

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Bali Language Agency drafts dictionary for Balinese learners

Jakarta The Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology through the Bali Language Agency has been compiling a dictionary for Balinese language learners, an official said.

“The scope of words compilation of the Bali-Indonesia learner dictionary is the Balinese vocabulary from school level,” Head of the Bali Language Agency Toha Machsum in a written statement received here on Saturday.

According to him, Balinese words have been collected from Balinese teaching books from the elementary, junior high, and high school levels.

In addition, words have been collected from children’s stories and Balinese short stories, he informed.

The dictionary is aimed at helping language learners, either when they want to understand speech or text (receptive aspects), or to express thoughts in the form of speech or writing (productive aspects), Machsum said. Both aspects were considered in organizing the learner dictionary, he highlighted.

Source: Antara News

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Vaccination, health protocols are keys to tourism recovery: Uno

Jakarta Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sandiaga Uno stressed that COVID-19 vaccination and the application of health protocols are the keys to facilitating recovery in the tourism and creative economy sectors.

“Currently, more than 100 million people in Indonesia have been vaccinated. This is also supported by an increase in mobility as well as activities of recreational areas and retail sales that continue to increase even during the implementation of public activity restrictions (PPKM),” Uno remarked.

Speaking at the closing session of the 2021 World Marketing Forum (WMF) held virtually, as quoted from a press release on Saturday, Minister Uno also noted that Indonesia had currently begun to witness normalcy in activities with calibration to boost the tourism and creative economy sectors.

Although, in general, the creative economy sector had experienced a decline due to the pandemic, 16 sub-sectors had showed no signs of decline, such as television, radio, application, and game developer sub-sectors. In addition, the revenue in the culinary, fashion, and craft sub-sectors also did not change significantly.

According to the minister, several aspects for reviving the creative economy sector encompassed the launch of the #BeliKreatifLokal movement that is a national movement to support the Indonesian economy.

Source: Antara News

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Experts key for building community resilience in facing disaster: BNPB

Jakarta Experts can play an important role in developing community resilience against potential disasters in the country, secretary for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), Lilik Kurniawan, has emphasized.

“They are experts or academicians as part of the disaster mitigation penta-helix in Indonesia,” Kurniawan said at a virtual discussion on the role of experts in building resilience against disasters, here on Saturday. He was the key speaker at the discussion.

Penta-helix by BNPB is a part of the mutual cooperation of many parties for mitigating disasters, he added.

Intellectuals, as part of the penta-helix, can greatly contribute to disaster mitigation, he observed. He cited the example of how scientists and researchers play a role in contributing and working to reduce disaster risk.

According to him, the academicians’ part in disaster mitigation is crucial, considering that Indonesia has been experiencing several disaster events that have made its people more responsive and tough in facing potential disasters.

Source: Antara News

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