Yayasan Ikatan Rakyat Malaysia-Indonesia

بسم الله الر حمن الر حيم

8 Mac 2012

JAKARTA - Menteri Penerangan, Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan, Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim hari ini mencadangkan penubuhan sebuah badan bernama Yayasan Ikatan Rakyat Malaysia-Indonesia untuk memayungi program-program bagi mengeratkan lagi hubungan di peringkat rakyat kedua-dua negara.

Beliau berkata, yayasan itu yang akan bernaung di bawah kerajaan kedua-dua negara, antara lainnya akan menumpukan perhatian kepada program penyelidikan, percambahan bahasa dan pembangunan industri kreatif.

Ia akan juga merancang pelbagai program pertukaran budaya melalui mahasiswa dan penulis, yang akan disemarakkan dalam skala yang besar, katanya pada sidang akhbar selepas menyampaikan syarahan umum bertajuk "Demi Hubungan Erat dan Mesra Rakyat Malaysia-Indonesia" di Fakulti Ilmu Budaya, Universiti Indonesia, Kampus Depok dekat sini, hari ini.

Syarahan umum itu diadakan sempena majlis perasmian "Sudut Malaysia" di Universiti Indonesia, iaitu koleksi buku-buku tentang sosio budaya Malaysia.

Menteri itu berkeyakinan yayasan berkenaan akan berupaya melestarikan program kerjasama kebudayaan antara Malaysia dan Indonesia sebagaimana yang telah dilaksanakan sebelum ini.

The proposal to set up a joint

Malaysia-Indonesia committee to protect and build better bilateral ties between

the two countries by Universiti Indonesia (UI) is a constructive suggestion,

said Minister of Information, Communications and Culture Datuk Seri Dr Rais

Yatim.

In welcoming the suggestion, he said the committee could help complete

programmes to forge relations at the people level of the two countries.

The "Yayasan Ikatan Rakyat Malaysia-Indonesia"(Malaysia-Indonesia Peoples''

Bonding Foundation), to be established under the auspices of the governments of

the two countries, could support the joint committee''s activities, he told a

news conference after delivering a public lecture, on strengthening

Malaysia-Indonesia people-to-people relations, at the Depok campus of Universiti

Indonesia, near here.

The lecture was held in conjunction with the launching of the "Malaysia

Corner", housing a collection of socio-cultural books on Malaysia, at the

university.

Meanwhile, UI''s Cultural Knowledge Faculty dean Dr Bambang Wibawarta, who

made the proposal, said the committee which would comprise members of academia,

media, non-governmental organisations as well as government representatives from

both countries, could be formed soon.

In his proposal, he said the committee could create the synergy of

accurate information exchange network on the two countries to protect the

harmonious relations between the peoples in them.

"In this joint committee, we can sit and find solutions to assist the

leaders in both countries to raise a new awareness on the various issues

involving Malaysia and Indonesia," he said.

Dr Bambang believed the formation of the joint committee could set up in

four months through the cooperation of Ikatan Setiakawan Wartawan

Malaysia-Indonesia (Iswami).

He believed the establishment of Yayasan Ikatan Rakyat Malaysia-Indonesia

could bring enormous benefits to improving relations between the people of

Malaysia and Indonesia.

Ref//Bernama