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IKN The Future Capital City of Indonesia

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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.

My Last 2 High Profile Meetings in 2022

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2022 has been a great year for me. I have received many Interpretation projects to support several High Profile Meetings such as G20 Side Events and so on.

Here are my last 2 High Profile meetings to end this Great year.

1. Meeting between Indonesian Ministry of Public Works and Housing and 12 Japanese Companies Representative Lead by JBIC.

2. Meeting between Indonesian Coast Guard and ClassNK Japan.

I wish everyone for a Great year ahead in 2023.

 

A short video while I was interpreting for 2 high-profile individuals

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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.

Courtesy Call from Japan MoD to Indonesia

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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.