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The latest issue of SOCIETY features Türkiye and Indonesia, as well as the late politician Henry Kissinger, an interview with Olga Stefanishyna and interviews with the Ambassadors of Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Philippines, Slovakia and Thailand.
The latest issue of SOCIETY features Türkiye and Indonesia, as well as the late politician Henry Kissinger, an interview with Olga Stefanishyna and interviews with the Ambassadors of Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Philippines, Slovakia and Thailand.
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FOCUS<br />
INDONESIA<br />
The Ambassador enjoys to play music with his lovely<br />
wife Ermita Sitorus at the Indonesian Residence<br />
92<br />
Ambassador H.E. Damos Agusman<br />
with Tanja Tauchhammer<br />
relevant during the bipolar Cold War world, a more<br />
enduring “Bebas Aktif” foreign policy has become<br />
a relevant framework for a dynamic foreign policy<br />
that contributes to global stability.<br />
In the framework of the vision “Golden Indonesia<br />
2045“, the Indonesian Government has set itself<br />
a number of goals for a prosperous future of the<br />
country. What are the main pillars of this vision?<br />
As Indonesia inches closer to the centennial anniversary<br />
of its independence in 2045, hence the<br />
“Golden Indonesia”, many analysts predicted that<br />
our country is set to take advantage of its demographic<br />
dividents and achieve a status of 5 th largest<br />
economy in the world by 2050. And rightly so,<br />
we have to prepare for this inevitability, be it in<br />
the governance, infrastructure, labor market, productivity,<br />
and effectivity<br />
of using our natural<br />
resources.<br />
The achievement of<br />
the Indonesian Vision is<br />
built on 4 pillars: Human<br />
Development and Mastery<br />
of Science and<br />
Technology; Sustainable<br />
Economic Development;<br />
Equitable Development; and Strengthening<br />
National Resilience and Governance.<br />
Each pillar contains development sectors, from<br />
education to foreign policy, that must be developed<br />
until 2045 to realize the Indonesian Vision 2045.<br />
“... and<br />
(4) Strengthening<br />
National Resilience<br />
and Governance.”<br />
Overall, the Indonesian Vision 2045 aims to<br />
achieve a better and more evenly distributed<br />
level of welfare for the Indonesian people, with<br />
a higher quality of human resources, an elevated<br />
economy that positions Indonesia as a developed<br />
country and one of the top 5 economic powers in<br />
the world and a just and equitable development<br />
in all sectors, all within the framework of the<br />
sovereign and democratic Unitary State of the<br />
Republic of Indonesia.<br />
Between 2000 and 2004, you already lived in<br />
Vienna and served as Counsellor of the Indonesian<br />
Embassy to Austria. What do you appreciate about<br />
Vienna/Austria?<br />
As conservation is important for Austria, I have<br />
noticed about Vienna is, that it has not changed<br />
much since I first came<br />
here. What is different<br />
though is, that more people<br />
are able to speak English<br />
now, which was not<br />
the case twenty years<br />
ago. As a lawyer, I would<br />
also like to promote in<br />
Indonesia, that a significant<br />
contributor to the<br />
theory of judicial review, Hans Kelsen, was Austrian<br />
and I have already taken a photo with his<br />
statue at Juridicum. Being a Christian, I have also<br />
visited the chapel in Oberndorf, where “Silent<br />
night” was sung the first time.<br />
image/s by <strong>SOCIETY</strong>/Pobaschnig<br />
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