SOCIETY 384

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