On July 19th 2022, the Japan Ministry of Defense delegation visited Indonesia and made a courtesy call to meet Indonesian Minister of Defense and Indonesian Army Commander. Not much I can say about the content of the meeting since it involved military secrets. I was instructed by the Japan MoD to come to the hotel in early morning to get the briefing about the meeting agenda. Everything is in manual hard copy and I have to give back all the documents that were shown to me back to them.
*me and one of the military lady act as the MC for ceremony in the National Heroes Tomb Kalibata in the morning before we all go to Indonesia MoD.
I always admire Japanese work attitude. The day before they just visited another country, and then took a flight to Indonesia and stay for 1 night, had a meeting with Indonesian Army Commander and Indonesian Minister of Defense (in both separate place of course) and after that went directly to the Airport to go to another country. Almost no time was wasted. The business trip was designed for the maximum efficiency.
*I found the related post by Indonesia Defense Magazine in their youtube channel here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVHel3978uA
I’m quite proud that I’m able to contribute to strengthen the military relation between Indonesia and Japan as an Interpreter. This meeting is quite special because from what I heard from their staff is, this is the first time in a decade or so that Japan Mod made an official Courtesy Call visit to Indonesia.