Indonesian Government is trying to relocate the capital city from Jakarta to IKN (Kalimantan / Borneo Island). A lot of preparation and early stage construction has been put in place.

Since the 2nd term of 2022, I have received several projects from Japanese clients that put some interest in the IKN project. Some of the interpretation support that I’ve done including a high level meeting between Japan and Indonesian representative in this case the Ministry of Public Works and Housing. Some in-depth-interview with government officials regarding the planning and development of the new capital city and so on.

Finally in 2023, some of the Japanese companies delegation team head out to see the IKN construction in person and I’ve been chosen as one of the interpreter to support them.

*can you spot where I am ? 🙂
I am on the most left part of the pic.

When the capital city officially relocated to the new location, will the interpreter’s job will also moved from Jakarta (Java Island) to Kalimantan (Borneo Island). Let’s see what the futures hold for us.

For those who might be interested on how it’s look like to do my job.

This is a snippet of a video while I was interpreting for Japan Parliamentary Vice Minister of Defense and Indonesian National Armed Forces Chief Commander. This is how it’s like when interpreting a spontaneous dialog between 2 high-profile individuals without any prepared materials. In the video you can see a short part when I was interpreting from Japanese to Indonesian language and also from Japanese to English language toward the end of the video.

*The video was taken from the official Indonesian National Armed Forces youtube channel and narrated using Indonesian language.