Philippines Featured at University of Indonesia International Cultural Festival 2022
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(24 September 2022) - The Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines, Jakarta, Indonesia, through Sentro Rizal Jakarta, participated in the 2022 International Cultural Festival of the University of Indonesia (UI) held at Makara Art Center, Depok.
The event was organized by the UI Student Dormitory and in collaboration with its Makara Art Center. Featured guests included the Embassies of the Philippines and Russia in Jakarta. During the event, the Philippine’s showcased videos of the Tinikling dance performed by the Leyte Dance Theater, and Ginataang Langka cuisine.
In his remarks during the event, Third Secretary and Vice Consul Glenn Joseph D. Teh likened the Tinikling to the Indonesian Tari Gaba Gaba, as both dances make use of bamboo poles. Mr. Teh additionally emphasized the Philippines’ Ginataang Langka and its similarity with Yogjakarta’s Gudeg, which is an Indonesian dish similarly using jackfruit in coconut milk.
The Embassy and UI expressed mutual willingness to explore further collaborations in the future in the field of culture, and to other possible areas of partnership.
Norwegian Embassy Official Visits the Philippine Embassy in Jakarta
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(20 Sep 2022) - Chargé d' Affaires ad interim Bryan B. Lao receives Mr. Kristian Netland, Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission of the Norwegian Embassy in Jakarta at the chancery of the Philippine Embassy in Jakarta.
Minister and Consul General Visits Ngurah Rai Immigration Office in Bali
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(16-Sep-2022, Bali) – Minister and Consul General Bryan Dexter B. Lao of the Philippine Embassy in Jakarta was in Bali, Denpasar to pay a courtesy visit to the Bali Immigration Office for Ngurah Rai. He is seen here in this photo (white barong) talking with Chief Sugito, S.T. and other immigration officials accompanied by Ms. Gertrudes Rosario Bea of the Consular Section.
Philippine Space Agency Deputy Director-General Pays Courtesy Call at the Embassy
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(19 August 2022) -- Chargé d'Affaires ad interim Bryan B. Lao receives a token replica of the Diwata-2 microsatellite from Deputy Director General for Space Science & Technology Dr. Gay Jane P. Perez of the Philippine Space Agency during her courtesy call at the Philippine Embassy.
Dr. Perez attended the 26th session of the Intergovernmental Consultative Committee (ICC-26) on the Regional Space Applications Programme for Sustainable Development (RESAP) hosted by Indonesia's National Research and Innovation Agency (Badan Riset dan Inovasi) in Jakarta, Indonesia from 18-19 August 2022. She delivered the Philippine statement as co-chair of the ICC-25 in 2021.