A: Hello Iam Celeste from Portugal B: Hello I am in Intan Qurotul Ain, From Indonesia A: I work as Economy and Commercial Counsellor in Portugal Embassy, here is my card. You ? A: Thank you. I am student in Hacettepe University B: Master or Phd student? A: No. I am undergraduate student B: Great! So you are the youngest delegation. A: I think ... yes ( sambil ngeliat sekeliling gak ada yang semuda saya) Tiba- tiba ada yang ikut nimbrung C: Hello I am Umer. I am Pakistan Delegate. I work as First Secretary in Pakistan Embassy. Here is my card B: Thank you 10 menit kemudian. . . . Saya mendapat 10 kartu nama pada sesi perkenalan antar delagasi tersebut dan saya baru mengetahui bahwa saya adalah delegasi paling muda. Setelah saya mengcheck data list delegasi dan berkenalan dengan beberapa delegasi rata-rata mereka adalah para perwakilan Diplomat, Professor - Professor, Rektor Universitas dan Aktivis wanita perwakilan NGO dari berbagai negara. Round Table Meeting Session 1 1. Problems and needs of women in your countries? 2. Social policies and services carried out for these issues. 3. Work to be done in order to provide a sustainable, international cooperation for the solution of women's problems and the empowerment of women. Beberapa hal di atas adalah hal - hal yang kami diskusikan bersama. Pada sesi 1 ini setiap delegasi di beri kesempatan selama 15 menit /orang untuk menjawab pertanyaan di atas dan menyampaikan tentang permasalah negara masing-masing, lalu setelah semuanya selesai kami mulai tanya jawab dan berdiskusi. Acara roundtable meeting ini berlangsung selama kurang lebih 4 jam dan diskusinya berlangsung seru banget dengan di pimpin oleh Prof Nurdan Duman. Beliau beberapa kali menyebut nama saya pada saat diskusi tersebut berlangsung karena saya adalah delegasi termuda yang bisa ikut berpartisipasi dan berkonstribusi meskipun mungkin peran saya tidak terlalu besar dalam diskusi tersebut. Saya banyak belajar sekali dari diksusi tersebut saya jadi tahu tentang permasalahan wanita di seluruh dunia, belajar bagaimana mengutarakan pendapat dan ide yang saya miliki, dan yang paling penting adalah bertukar pikiran tentang bagaimana kita sama-sama berkontribusi mencari solusi untuk permasalahan wanita di dunia. Dari sekian banyak permasalahan perempuan di dunia, saya ingin memberi contoh tentang satu permasalahan hak seorang perempuan yang menurut saya ini sangat miris sekali bahkan tidak adil yaitu permasalahan hak seorang perempuan di negara Libya. Di negara ini banyak korban pemerkosaan yang dipaksa untuk menikahi pemerkosa oleh keluarga mereka (baik korban ataupun pelaku) menurut hukum Libya si pemerkosa bisa lolos dari hukuman penjara bila ia menikahi korban. Selain itu, perempuan yang menjadi korban harus membuktikan bahwa dia diperkosa jika tidak dia bisa, dia akan di penjara atas dasar dia melakukan zina. Sungguh tidak adil! Lalu bagaimana dengan hak seorang perempuan tersebut? Hari kedua dan Ketiga Acara hari kedua ini dibuka langsung oleh first lady Turkey yaitu Emine Erdogan dan beberapa keynote speaker yang keren - keren lainnya. Namun sayangnya, saya tidak bisa mengikuti full acara dihari-hari berikutnya tersebut dikarenakan bentrok dengan jadwal midterm. Lalu apa permasalahan besar perempuan Indonesia ? Ketika itu saya berpikir kalau di bandingkan dengan negara lain ternyata kita sebagai perempuan Indonesia lebih beruntung karena kita sangatlah diberi kebebasan berkarya, berekspresi menjadi apapun dan siapapun yang kita inginkan. Menurut saya permasalahan terbesar perempuan Indonesia itu adalah kesadaran dan moral dirinya masing-masing. Adapun beberapa alasanya mengapa seperti itu karena: 1. Role Model Perempuan Indonesia Adalah Artis. Bisakah kita rasakan, anak muda zaman sekarang di Indonesia lebih menjadikan artis-artis sebagai role modelnya, banyak sekali yang tiba-tiba menjadi artis dadakan, selebgram, seleb youtube dan lain-lain. It's okay jika yang mereka idolakan itu adalah artis-artis yang berkualitas yang mempunyai hasil karya positif dan memang pantas dijadikan role model. Namun, pada kenyataannya yang saya lihat tidak seperti itu, kebanyakannya mereka – mereka mengidolakan artis-artis juga selebgram yang tidak jelas, tidak berkualitas yang bermodalkan GAUL ALA KEBARAT-BARATAN SAJA. Nampaknya, pahlawan-pahlawan perempuan hebat Indonesia sudah kalah pamor dan mungkin terlupakan. Miris sekali! 2. Terlalu Khawatir dengan Jodoh. Mungkin ini adalah salah satu isu hangat yang sedang menjadi buah pembicaraan perempuan Indonesia yaitu nikah muda. Awalnya saya biasa saja menanggapi hal ini tapi setelah sering di tanya "Kapan nikah?" oleh teman saya, lama kelamaan saya mikir "Kok mereka bisa se-siap dan semudah itu memandang sebuah pernikahan, apakah mereka benar-benar siap atau mereka hanya terlalu khawatir akan jodohnya?" Ada satu cerita yang berkaitan dengan hal di atas yang mana benar-benar menyadarkan saya. Ini hanyalah percakapan kecil antara saya dengan teman saya. Dia bertanya seperti ini "Intan, rata-rata perempuan di Indonesia nikah umur berapa?" Lalu saya menjawab "Kalau sekarang sih sekitar umur 19 atau 20 tahunan udah banyak yang nikah” mendengar jawaban saya, dia langsung terkerjut "Mengapa seperti itu? Mereka tidak sekolah?” Sayapun menjawab kembali “Engga kok, ada yang nikah sambil kuliah” Diapun bertanya kembali “How can? Apakah mereka bisa jadi istri semuda itu? Apakah mereka siap? Apa mereka tidak punya mimpi? Apakah di indonesia se-simple itu? dan saya hanya bisa menjawab “ Ini tentang masalah pilihan hidup dan prioritas diri mereka masing- masing!” menurut saya mungkin jawaban itulah yang paling tepat namun nampaknya teman saya masih belum puas dengan jawaban saya dan masih terheran-heran. Sebenernya saya sendiri sering bertanya-tanya dalam hati akan hal tersebut “HOW CAN?”. Jika ditanya pendapat saya pribadi, saya adalah orang yang tidak setuju dengan nikah muda, saya miris dengan orang-orang yang berpikiran kalau sekolah tinggi-tinggi akan susah jodoh dan memandang hidup hanya sebatas yaudah yang penting cepet lulus, cepet nikah karena capek belajar terus. Hey Perempuan, ilmu kita belum seberapa! Dunia tidak di persiapkan untuk hal tersebut. Dunia menunggu karya kita! 3. Laki-Laki Superior dan Perempuan Inferior. Sadar tidak sadar semenjak kecil kita sudah diberi pemikiran bahwasanya seorang laki-laki itu lebih kuat daripada perempuan. Mungkin pemahaman dan penanaman hal tersebut itu dimulai dari lingkungan terdekat kita seperti dari keluarga, teman bermain dan disekolah (sadar tidak sadar). Saya ingat dulu semasa SD, kita pasti beranggapan bahwa yang harus jago olahraga itu hanyalah laki-laki, kalau ada perempuan jago olahraga dikit dibilang tomboy, perempuan kuat dikit dibilang cowok, ketua kelas harus cowok dan banyak hal lainya. Selain itu contoh kecil lainnya adalah banyak yang orang yang beranggapan perempuan yang tidak bisa masak itu bukanlah perempuan, tugas perempuan itu hanya di rumah LOL menurut saya itu pemikiran yang kurang tepat. Saya tidak menyalahi kodrat sebagai perempuan tapi saya sangat tidak setuju jikalau memang laki-laki dipandang superior dan perempuan inferior karena pada intinya kita itu memiliki kesempatan yang sama. 4.Kurang Percaya Diri inilah masalah yang paling mendasar dikalangan perempuan Indonesia. Sering sekali hal –hal yang kita yakini adalah sisi terburuk dari diri kita sendiri yaitu ke-pesimis-an yang mana kita sering menganggap kalau kita itu kecil, tidak bisa apa-apa hanyalah meraka diluar sana yang lebih bisa apa-apa, atau bahkan kita menutup diri atas segala kemungkinan yang tentu bisa kita lakukan karena merasa kita hanyalah seorang perempuan. Sebagai seorang perempuan, kita seharusnya percaya terhadap kemampuan diri kita sendiri bahwa kita itu hebat, kita punya kekuatan, kita bisa menjadi apapun, siapapun dan berkarya apapun sesuai dengan yang kita ingikan. Dunia dipersiapkan untuk kita, seorang perempuan-perempuan yang hebat karena kita akan mengajari generasi. 5. Kurang Mandiri. Saya beruntung saya bisa kuliah keluar negeri karena dengan begitu saya bisa belajar tentang arti sesungguhnya sebuah kemandirian. Semua berawal dari sini, saya mengurusi dokumen-dokumen keberangkatan, saya mengurusi permasalahan dan pendaftaran Universitas, saya mengurusi perizininan tempat tinggal di Turki yang mana hal-hal tersebut harus saya urus sendiri (tidak bisa diwakilkan) dan tentunya dihadapkan dengan berbagai permasalahan yang bikin nefret ediyorum kalau bahasa Turkinya sih gitu, bahkan setelah disini hal yang tidak mungkin bisa saya lakukanpun bisa terjadi yaitu saya menggangkat koper besar dari lantai 1 sampai lantai 5 layaknya "The Winner Stand Alone". Namun, terlepas dari hal – hal diatas menurut saya arti sebuah kemandirian lebih dari itu yaitu tentang sebuah prinsip hidup. Adapun, jika saya bandingkan dengan perempuan di Indonesia menurut saya banyak mereka (perempuan) yang lebih bangga melakukan hal-hal tersebut atau jalan kemana-mana dengan pacarnya ataupun sopir pribadinya dibandingkan melakukannya sendiri. Nah, menurut saya itulah beberapa permasalahan terbesar perempuan Indonesia. Tentunya, saya menulis hal – hal tersebut sesuai dengan pandangan, perasaan, dan pengalaman saya pribadi. Tidak menutup kemungkinan banyak yang tidak setuju dengan hal-hal diatas tak apa, yang penting satu hal harus kita setujui dan harus selalu kita ingat yaitu “Teruslah belajar untuk menjadi perempuan yang hebat karena dunia tidak dipersiapkan untuk mereka (perempuan) yang hilang akan harapanya yang tidak percaya akan mimpi-mimpinya. Dunia menunggu karya kita” Anyway, banyak sekali pelajaran yang saya dapatkan dari congress ini yang tidak bisa saya tuliskan semuanya dan sedikit demi sedikit telah mengubah diri saya tentunya kearah yang lebih baik. Adapun "2nd International Women Congress" selanjutnya akan di selenggarakan di Italia sesuai dengan keputusan bersama pada acara roundtable meeting. Semoga saya bisa diberi kesempatan kembali menjadi delegasi Indonesia.
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Apa arti kedamaian menurut kamu intan?" salah satu teman dari India menanyakan hal itu kepada saya. Lalu saya jawab "arti kedamaian menurut saya adalah ketika saya semakin dekat dengan Tuhan saya." Bagaimana dengan kamu ? lalu dia menjawab "arti kedamaian menurut saya adalah happiness kebahagian." Selalu ada cerita baru, ilmu baru, teman baru setelah saya mengikuti konferensi-konferensi (Yups! inilah salah satu hobi saya). Pada tanggal 29 februari - 05 Maret 2016 saya berkesempatan mengikuti salah satu konferensi yang bertema "Harmony of Spiritual Diversity in the Sacred Spaces in Istanbul" yang di ikuti oleh mahasiswa-mahasiswi s1,s2,s3, dosen dan proffesor yang berasal dari 25 negara yang berbeda (saya dan temen saya Yunas adalah delegasi Indonesia). Acara ini diadakan oleh mahasiswa Peace and Conflict Studies Program di Hacettepe University (Turki) dan Innsbruck University (Austria) yang bekerja sama dengan Yunus Emre Institute. Acara konferensi ini bukan sekedar konferensi biasa namun bisa disebut juga Academic Research Trip. Selama satu minggu kami mengunjungi kebeberapa tempat bersejarah dan tempat ibadah beberapa agama di Istanbul. Bukan hanya sekedar mengunjungi akan tetapi kami mempelajari, menganalisa sejarah dari tempat itu sendiri bahkan mendengarkan ceramah keagamaan dari pemuka agama-agama tersebut. Suatu kebanggan bagi saya selaku seorang muslim bisa mendengarkan langsung ceramah dari Imam besar mesjid Blue Mosque Sultan/ Ahmet yang mengutarakan Islam dengan jelas. Pertama kali dalam hidup saya mendengarkan ceramah dari seorang Jewish dan Pendeta - Pendeta (sebagai satu-satunya perserta perempuan muslim dan juga berkerudung mungkin ini adalah hal yang sangat tabu). Tempat- tempat yang kami kunjungi adalah Hagia sophia, Sultan Ahmet/ Blue Mosque, Top kapı Palace, Hagia Irene, Panorama, Neve Shalom Synagogue (tempat ibadah orang yahudi), Greek Orthodox Patriarchy (tempat ibadah orang kristen ortodok Yunani), Armenian Patriarchy (tempat kristen Armenia), Chora Church, Mesjid Suleymaniye, Mesjid Eyup Sultan dan lain-lain. Lalu, Pelajaran apa yang saya dapatkan dari acara ini? Banyak sekali. Pelajaran berharga yang tidak bisa saya ungkapkan dengan kata-kata. Di acara ini, saya bukan sekedar bertemu dengan orang baru namun dengan latar belakang negara, agama yang baru pula karena rata-rata mereka yang mengikuti acara ini adalah mereka dengan latar belakang agama yang berbeda diantaranya islam, budha, kristen, yahudi, agnostik (percaya Tuhan namun tidak percaya agama) bahkan atheist (tidak percaya Tuhan) "orang-orang yang sedang mencari kebeneran" yang terkadang kami sesekali berdebat tentang agama. Saya belajar bahwa kita harus terus berusaha menjadi seseorang yang terbaik, bertoleransi tinggi, open minded, dan jadilah "manusia" jangan "berpura-pura menjadi manusia". Mulai sekarang mulailah meninggalkan perkara memandang atau menghakimi seseorang berdasarkan latar belakang agamanya. Siapapun kita, agama apapun kita, berusahalah untuk selalu menyebarkan perdamaian sesekali tak apa ada perdebatan karena perbedaan di antara kita, akan tetapi kita harus selalu hidup dalam sebuah keharmonisan. Hello teman - teman! Apakabar kalian? Semoga dalam keadaan baik dan selalu baik. Akhirnya winter break yeay. Libur satu bulan! Bisa santai, bisa jalan-jalan, bisa tidur panjang, gak ada tugas, gak dikejar deadline ekspektasinya kayak gitu, realitanya (?) yasudahlah. Kalau liburan kayak gini, sembari santai saya lebih sering membuka akun media sosial saya dari pada biasanya. Akhir- akhir ini banyak pertanyaan dari temen-temen di media sosial saya tentang “gimana caranya bisa kuliah di Turki?” kurang lebih seperti itu. Tapi, karena terlalu banyak orang yang bertanya saya tidak bisa menjawabnya satu- satu (maafkan ya). Nah, akhirnya saya putuskan untuk menulis tentang informasi mengenai salah satu beasiswa untuk kuliah di Turki yaitu Türkiye Bursları. Ingetloh, saya merangkum informasi tentang beasiswa ini secara singkat, padat dan insaallah jelas. Jadi, untuk informasi lebih lanjut lagi temen-temen bisa langsung cek di situs resmi beasiswa tersebut. Inget jangan jadi pejuang malas! Türkiye Bursları adalah beasiswa pemerintah Turki. Beasiswa ini salah satu beasiswa yang ada di Turki untuk mahasiswa asing dari berbagai negara dari seluruh dunia. Hampir sekitar 50% mahasiswa asing dari berbagai negara yang kuliah di Turki masuk melalui jalur beasiswa ini termasuk mahasiswa Indonesia yang ada di sini. Beasiswa ini merupakan beasiswa penuh untuk mahasiswa internasional jenjang S1, S2, dan S3. Fasilitas- fasilitas yang di berikan adalah :
Beasiswa Türkiye Bursları : Beasiswa Bosphorus Beasiswa S1 semua jurusan Beasiswa Ali Kuşçu Beasiswa S2-S3 Ilmu Sains Beasiswa Ibu Haldun Beasiswa S2-S3 Ilmu Sosial Beasiswa Ibu Sina Beasiswa S2-S3 Ilmu Sosial Beasiswa Yunus Emre Beasiswa S1-S3 Sastra Turki Beasiswa İlahiyat Beasiswa S1-S3 Agama Islam Persyaratan Beasiswa: SYARAT UMUR Maksimal 21 tahun untuk Undergraduate (S1) Maksimal 31 tahun untuk Graduate (S2) Maksimal 36 tahun untuk Doctoral (S3) SYARAT NILAI Nilai rata-rata Ujian Nasional (UN) harus diatas 70 dari 10. SYARAT BAHASATOEFL – IELTS Sertifikat bahasa asing lainnya seperti bahasa Turki dan bahasa Arab. SYARAT DOKUMEN Ijazah SMA dan SKHUN Transkrip Nilai Rapor Semester 1-6 Sertifikat Bahasa Surat Referensi Sertifikat Kejuaraan Alur Seleksi Türkiye Bursları : Biasanya pendaftaran beasiswa ini dibuka antara bulan April - Mei. Pendaftaran di lakukan secara online di situs resmi beasiswa tersebut. Ada 2 tahap seleksi yaitu tahap pertama, penyeleksian berkas yang mana pada tahap ini tim penyeleksi melihat dari berkas- berkas yang kita unggah secara online dan tahap kedua, wawancara yang mana pada tahap ini hanya orang-orang yang lulus seleksi di tahap pertama yang di panggil untuk melakukan wawancara. Tahap wawancara merupakan tahap penentuan kita di terima atau tidak di beasiswa ini. Nah, teman-teman saya rasa informasi di atas cukup jelas mengenai Turkiye Burslari ini. Informasi di atas yang saya tulis lebih mendetail tentang informasi untuk s1. Jika masih ada yang kurang jelas silahkan teman-teman cek di situs resmi beasiswa tesebut dan apabila ada yang tidak di mengerti dan ingin bertanya mengenai beasiswa tersebut silahkan tanyakan kepada saya melalui email saya ([email protected]). Semoga tulisan ini bermanfaat dan silahkan di share berbagi informasi. Selamat mencoba dan Good luck! Klik disini untuk situs resmi Türkiye Bursları
Extra: 1st Session - Summary of Turkish Foreign Policy Hi! It's been snowing here in Ankara, so my class is cancelled and I have time to write about INSPIRATIONS' 2nd meting, after taking some beautiful snowy photos around my campus. So as I said in my previous posts, our second meeting was a visit to Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Yes, we aimed to seek deeper insight about how Turkish Foreign Policy works. You might be wondering how we got to be invited to a major and exclusive institution like that. Well it started when one of our members Mr. Agung Nurwijoyo approached them via e-mail. He wrote that we would like to obtain some info about Turkish Foreign Policy, and it was replied with warm response from them. We agreed that we would be invited on Monday 16th 02.00 pm. 10 of us went there. (Me, Trio, Ka Agung, Ka Rizky, Yunas, Ka Ihsan, Ka Erik, Fitriyanto, Indika, Oza) During the meeting, we were treated with warm hospitality. Their representatives were Mr. Ozan Akin and Mr. Emin, both serve under Stratejik Arastirma Merkezi under Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. First, they presented an overview of Turkish Foreign Policy and Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Scroll down for the summary of the presentation). After that, it was the QA sections. They did not answer all of our questions because they were not under the authority to give information about some particular issues. (Scroll down for the full list of Qs and As) Our meeting ended with a photo session. We try to keep in touch with the, and hopefully it can lead us to another visit at another institutions. That's it for today. Have a nice day! Turkish Foreign Policy Within always-changing global political and economic transformation, Turkish Foreign Policy (TFP) has undergone 3 big ‘earthquakes’, they are; 1. Geopolitical Earthquake in 1991 that was marked by the end of the Cold War. 2. Security Earthquake in 2001 that was initiated by the ‘terrorists’ attack of 9/11. 3. Political and Economy Earthquake in 2011 in the Mediterranean basin that could be seen through several problems like the Arab Spring and the economic crisis in Europe. In short, we can say that, after the end of the Cold War, Turkey starts to change her foreign policy step by step. How can we say it like that? We can see it clearly from her reactions during 1990s and 2000s. In 1990s, TFP was based on security concerns because of the problematic economic crisis and intensifying fights against terrorism but in 2000s, TFP was changed according to 3 dimensional facts; first, increasing democratic feelings, second, emerging comprehensive structural reforms and the most crucial one, third, appearing multidimensional foreign policy. Since the beginning of the 21st century, with the Justice and Development Party takes the control of the country in 2002, under the leadership of Mr. Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey’s recent Prime Minister, Turkey has been strengthening her hold onto multidimensional FP by characterizing her policies within 4 main frameworks; 1. Developing closer relations with neighboring countries. 2. Spreading her relations throughout the world for example to Asia-Pacific and Latin America. 3. Playing more active role in several international organizations (IOs) and platforms. 4. Strengthening the already existing realtions. If we want to look into these matters in more detail, we can say that, Turkey, while undergoing her first characterization mentioned above, also has 4 main tenets; first, enhancing political dialogues, second, developing economic interdependence, third, increasing social and cultural interactions, fourth, supporting regional cooperation. Turkey’s closer relations with her neighboring countries can be seen in several platforms like High Level Strategic Cooperation Councils (generally consisting Joint Cabinet Meeting) [HLSCC] and Free Trade Agreements. The results of these activities are; first, increasing share of neighboring countries’ foreign trade from 15% to 25%, second, increasing trade volume due to HLSCC by 8 fold from 13 billion USD to 100 billion USD, third, visa exemption with 21 countries in the last 10 years, fourth, a growing regional role, especially in Balkans, Caucasus, Central Asia and Middle East. The second apparent character of Turkey’s multidimensional FP is an opening up to new geographies, spreading its relations even further to the other side of the world. There are also several examples of this activity like; first, from 2002 until 2014, Turkey has been able to open up 27 more embassies in Africa from her initial 12 embassies, second, raising expectations to lead the world’s humanitarian assistance there, third, teaching ‘know-how’ for living to the fullest for the Africans, fourth, enhancing economic development in Africa by investing in textile, for example. On the other side of the world, in Asia-Pacific, Turkey has developed her strategic level relations with ‘Asian Giants’, new emerging power of Asia like China and South Korea become the main targets of Turkey’s ‘expansion’, by not putting aside Japan as their ‘older brother’, moreover, Turkey tries to keep maintaining growing relations with other Asian countries like by engaging closer ties with the ASEAN. Here, we can draw a conclusion that Turkey always tries to exploit closer and even closer relations directly on ‘human-to-human’ approach as she thinks that it is the most effective way to enter into the other states’ affairs that are located even far from her. Moving into the third characterization of TFP, the so-called holistic comprehensive approach appears on the surface. This approach contains not only international organizations (IOs) but also structures apart from states. The example of IOs in which Turkey put her intention in are, for example: the UN (Alliance of Civilization and Mediation for Peace), the G20 (having 2015’s presidency), the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization, the Global Counter Terrorism Forum and also several conferences like Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) 2016’s presidency. The other side of the coin, the other part of Turkey’s structure is non-state structure or platforms like TIKA and Yunus Emre Institute that have been acting actively as the extension of Turkish government whose influence, aids and importance can be felt apparently, especially in the neighboring countries. Furthermore, we can also say that, recently, Turkey is now ranked second in the world’s emerging donor country by looking at Turkey’s official development assistance budget that reaches more than 3 billion USD. The last characterization of TFP is strengthening the already existing relations. These existing relations mainly consist of Turkey-the USA’s relations as partnership’s model, Turkey-the European Union’s relations as Turkey’s strategic target in the future and also Turkey-NATO’s relations that have been shifted from the idea of Turkey as just a ‘flank country’ to the idea of Turkey as a ‘central country’ of which Turkey is accepted as a more actively-playing country for the security, cooperation and development of the region surrounding Turkey and the world. 2nd Session - QA Session Q: Turkey has shifted from "flank country" to "central country" with more major role in regional and international growth. But if we look closely at the geopolitics, EU seems to be dominating in the Eastern Europe. In the Black Sea region, South Caucasian and Central Asia, there is Russia. How do Turkey reacts to this fact? (Eric Habitrisna) A: Turkey does not have any problem with EU and Russia, because we have some strategic joint-ventures and they don't think of us as a threat. Q: In the case of Syrian refugees, you have been very generous in accepting the incoming refugees. How will you react when the possible case of refugees overload comes to the surface? (M. Yunas Fitra) A: There is a possibility that we can apply more limitation and control to the incoming refugees. Currently there are 2 millions refugees spreading not only in the camps but to the cities.We apply the open gate policy to this case. Q: After being hit by economic crisis, some European countries cut ties with African countries, some shut down their embassies in African countries. But Turkey do the otherwise by increasing bilateral relations with African countries, and open even more Embassies, from 12 countries to 39 countries. What is the motive behind this? (Agung Nurwijoyo) A: Historically, unlike some of the European countries, Turkey does not have colonial history with African nations. Instead, Turkey are friends with African nations. So in this case, trade is not our only interest. We want to develop our relations with some African countries based on a focus point: Humans and Humanity. Q: THY is now officially a private company. From your presentation, why is it presented as part of Turkish Government’s institutions? (Fitri Yanto) A: They were shown as a brand that is related to Turkish Government. THY is currently a leading company in airlines and we once had share but now we do not. Q: The motto of the new government under AK Party is "Zero Problems with Neighbors" Isn't it a continuation of Turgut Ozal's governments' principle? (Eric Habitrisna) A: Indeed it is. Q: Besides of the popular reasons we know from the medias, are there any particular reason of why it is hard for Turkey to be granted membership of EU? (M Ihsan Razali) A: There are some other issues, such as Greece and Turkey borders in Aegean Sea, also the Cyprus issue which we believ is the key issue for the accession to EU Q: Indonesia has no bilateral relations to Israel and Taiwan. Why do you maintain your relation to Israel while some other countries decide to cut ties? (M Rizky Noviyanto) A: Turkey doesn't cut ties with Israel but we try to minimize our bilateral relations. For instance, we don't have any joint governmental project with Israel except when we compromise about the freedom of Palestine,such as our demand to make Israel - Palestine border according to 1967 treaty and Jerusalem must be the capital of Palestine. Furthemore our relations with Israel is not running smooth like when we give direct aid to Palestine because Israel strictly control all the borders. Q: As my friend said too, Indonesia does not have any bilateral relations with Israel and Taiwan. The reason for Taiwan is because we want to maintain our positive sentiment with China. Knowing that the only one trade mission Turkey has in the world is only with Taiwan, is there any dissatisfaction from the relations with China? (M Yunas Fitra) A: No, it doesn’t affect our relations with China in any ways Q: We learned that there is a propaganda called Yeni Turkiye Hedef2023 and 2071. Can you explain this? (Agung Nurwijoyo) A: This is actually a symbolic aim for our development. 2023 will mark exactly one century after our Independence. 2017 will mark exactly one millennium after Turkish arrival to Anatolia. Q: What are Turkey’s policies in the 5 year development in economy? (M Ichsan Razali) A: We will try to minimize dependency of the Western influences in our economy, to maximize our research and development, and increase the amount of exports of Turkish products in various sectors to the world Q: What kind of export products in the Turkey's world trade? (Indika Fauzan) A: To the EU, mostly it is automotive, chemical materials, and textile. Q: What is the secret of Turkey's success in long-term development? (M Ichsan Razali) A: Sorry, the answer is under the authority of Ministry of Development. Q: We looked at your data, and realized that trade volume to Iraq was the only one increasing in 2009 while others were decreasing. How could that happen? (Fitri Yanto) A: I am sorry but the answer is under the authority of Turkish Ministry of Trade. But all we can say is that currency changes played a huge role, especially with the volume trade to Russia. pict or didn't happen, they say
Hi! As what I mentioned in my previous post, I'd write more details about our meetings with Mr. Funda Tezok and our visit to Turkish Foreign Ministry. In this post, I will describe our meeting with Mr. Funda Tezok first, and the visit to Turkish Foreign Ministry will be in the later post. Always hope you will catch up. So, Mr. Funda Tezok is a lecturer of Hacettepe University, International Relations department. The reason we chose him is because he is a senior figure in the field of International relations with years of experience as former diplomat of Turkey, such as being the consul general in Stuttgart, Germany. Our aim was to inquire his perspectives on Indonesian Foreign Policy based on his expertise in International Relations, also share about his experience in those fields. In case you have no idea about how Indonesian Foreign Policy works in detail, I will present you here the overview. First, Indonesian Foreign Policy is based on the principle of Free and Active Foreign Policy. Free means Indonesia is free to build any partnerships with other countries. Active means Indonesia plays active roles on many levels of cooperation. This principle is implemented and proven by Indonesia's active role. In bilateral level, Indonesia maintains 94 embassies abroad as well as 80 consulates and 3 other representations. The Indonesian capital Jakarta hosts 97 embassies, and in addition there are 74 consulates and 1 other representations in Indonesia. In multilateral level, Indonesia is member of several organizations, such as ASEAN, UN, G20, APEC, ARF, D-8, Non Alignment Movement, OIC, FEALAC, ASEM, SWPD, PIF, NAASP, WTO, South-South Partnership. However, there has been a shift in the doctrine of Foreign Policy from the previous president Mr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to current president Mr. Joko WIdodo. While the former tended to aim to security and relations with having "Millions Friends, Zero Enemy" as its motto, the latter focus on the development on Indonesian role in maritime as pictured in the motto "World Maritime Axis". This shift was emphasized by Mr. Jokowi's speech in the APEC summit in Beijing, China November 10th-12nd 2014. (Full text from the speech is added in the bottom of this post) To achieve the aim of becoming the World Maritime Axis, Indonesia's main efforts are: •The efforts to rebuild the culture of maritime •The efforts to protect and manage the marine resources •The efforts to develop the infrastructure and maritime connectivity •The efforts to omit the source of conflicts in the sea •The efforts to build the maritime defense power Indonesia has also set some agendas to support the plan. The agendas are specifically aimed to increase the participation of the groups who previously does not have enough access towards the development and growth of Indonesia like low-income groups.Those agendas are: •Enhancement of Indonesia’s competitiveness through investment permit’s simplification and by forming one-stop national services. •Enhancement of the national tax ratio towards GDP by improving the taxation systems’ transparency and technology. •Reallocating fuel subsidies for financing infrastructure like roads, industries, seaports and supporting people’s welfare programs. •Reallocation of fuel subsidies will be channeling also for human development by launching several people’s welfare programs thus people will have assurance for their free education, health services and welfare services. After having presented the overview of Indonesian Foreign Policy to Mr. Tezok, he asked about the development of manufacture to support the process. Then we explained about the sea ports and sea tolls in Indonesia. As conclusion, he said that he believes that Indonesia will be the world maritime axis, based on the Indonesia's potency in the present, and Indonesia's glory in the past in the maritime world. After having a chat about how life is for us in Turkey and his experience working in the field of International relations, we finished the meeting. That is all from our first meeting. My next post will describe the visit we had to Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Have a goody day! Extra: This is the transcription of Mr. Joko Widodo's speech in APEC summit. Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, and CEOs, good morning. First, on behalf of the Indonesian Government and the people of Indonesia, I would like to thank you for coming to my presentation. Today, I am happy, I am very happy, to be with you, because you know I was a businessman years ago. So, this morning, I am very happy because we can talk about business, about investment with all of you. The picture shows you our map of Indonesia. We have a population of 240 million and the distance is like from London in UK to Istanbul in Turkey. And imagine, we have 17,000 islands. 17,000 islands. Our national budget for 2015 is $167 billion and for fuel subsidy is $27 billion. It’s huge. So we want to channel our fuel subsidy from consumption to the productive activities. From consumptive activities to productive activities. We want to channel our fuel subsidy to the farm for seeds, for fertilizers, and also for irrigation. And we want to build dams – 25 dams in 5 years from our fuel subsidy to maintain the water supply to the farming area. Some subsidy we want to channel to the fishermen, to give them boat engines, to give them refrigerators. We want to increase the income of the fishermen. Some fuel subsidy we want to give to micro and small enterprises in the villages. We want to help them raise their working capital. And some subsidy we want to channel to the health program, the education program. And some subsidy we want to channel to infrastructure. In 5 years we want to build 24 seaports and deep seaports. As you know, we have 17,000 islands, so we need seaports and we need deep seaports. And this is your opportunity: 24 seaports and deep seaports. The picture shows our Jakarta Port, Tanjung Priok port. In 2009, the capacity is 3.6 million TEUs a year, and our plan in 2017 is around 15 million TEUs a year. This is the potential ports in Indonesia. This is your opportunity. We want to build in Sumatera island, in Kalimantan island, in Java island, in Sulawesi island, in Maluku island, also in Papua island. And we plan to build our railway track, railway network. Now we have already in Java and we want to build in Sumatera island, in Kalimantan island, in Sulawesi island and also in Papua island. This is your opportunity. Now we talk about mass transportation. We want to build our mass transportation in 6 big cities in Indonesia. We have started in Jakarta last year, and we want to build in Medan, in Makassar, in Semarang, in Bandung, in Surabaya. So, this is also your opportunity, because you know our national budget is limited. Now we talk about our maritime agenda. We want to build sea toll. What is sea toll? Sea toll is maritime transportation system to make our transportation cost lower, to make our transportation cost more efficient. We want to build from the west to the east. We hope not only the vessels can enter our sea toll but also mother vessels can enter the sea toll. So, the price, the cost of the transportation is more efficient. For example, the price of the cement, one sack cement, in Java island is $6 per sack cement. But in Papua island the price is $150 per sack cement. Imagine, 25 times. So we hope with our sea toll the price in our islands is the same. Electricity. We need power plants. We need around 35,000 megavolts to build our industries, to build our projects, to build our industrial zones, our manufacturing zones. So, we need power plants. This is also your opportunity to invest in this project. Because we need our power plants for manufacturing, for industrial zones. Many investors, a lot of investors, when they come to me, most of them they always complain about land acquisition. I will push my ministers, my governors, my mayors, to help clear this problem. I have experience with land acquisition when I was a governor. We have a project, the Jakarta Outer Ring Road, started 15 years ago but was stopped 8 years ago, because we have a problem here: 1.5 kilometers unfinished because there is 143 families who do not accept with the compensation price. So last year I invite them. I go to them then I invite them to lunch and dinner. Four times. Ah, this is me. I invite them and then we talk about the problem. Four times. Four times meeting. And the problem is cleared. And now the toll road has been used (starting) 7 month ago. Now we talk business permit. We have national one-stop service office that can help you, that will serve you, that will facilitate you, that will give you your business permit. For example, principle business permit needs 3 days to process. Finally, again on behalf of the Indonesian government and the people of Indonesia, I would like to thank you for your listening (to) my presentation. We are waiting for you to come to Indonesia. We are waiting for you to invest in Indonesia. Thank you. Good morning. Pict or didn't happen, they say
Hi! So recently, I have been involving myself in a new community named INSPIRATIONS (Indonesian Students' Perspectives on International Relations). As mentioned in the name, we are Indonesian students studying in Ankara, Turkey, and we are united by a common factor: interest in international issues and international relations. What we do, is we are sharing our perspectives in certain International events and issues. Moreover, we are trying to obtain as much knowledge as possible by approaching people or institutions directly related to the issues we are working on. For instance, while we were observing the Turkey's foreign policy, we had a meeting with Mr. Funda Tezok (former ambassador of Republic of Turkey) and a visit to Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We are aiming to hold another meeting with more people/institutions. Curious about what we had on the meeting? I will post some articles regarding those meetings later on. I hope you'll catch up. Have a good day! Hacettepe University, 20-12-2014 with Mr Funda Tezok (former ambassador of Republic of Turkey)with Mr Ozan Akin adding some notes in our own "Book of Fame" Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 16-02-2015
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