Polish Tall Ship Set to Visit Jakarta to Strengthen Bilateral Ties
Jakarta. A sail training ship of Poland's Gydinia Maritime Academy is scheduled to arrive at Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakarta on Tuesday (02/10) for a visit aimed at enhancing business and education cooperation between Indonesia and Poland.
The ship named Dar Młodzieży, which means "Gift of Youth" in Polish, is sailing around the globe to mark the 100th anniversary of the country's independence.
It has more than 160 people on board, consisting of crewmembers and students of two Polish maritime universities.
Anna Moskwa, Polish deputy minister for maritime affairs and inland navigation, will meet with Indonesia's Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut B. Panjaitan and Marine Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjastuti.
Moskwa will also meet with Mohammad Nasir, minister of research, technology and higher education, Nusron Wahid, head of the Migrant Worker Protection and Placement Agency (BNP2TKI), and Ira Puspadewi, president director of state-owned ferry operator ASDP Indonesia.
The Polish delegation will also include maritime industry representatives – mainly shipyard developers and operators – and food producers. All the meetings will take place on board the ship, which will be docked at Tanjung Priok until Friday.
Cadets of Gdynia and Szczecin maritime academies will visit the Indonesian Merchant Marine Academy (STIP) in North Jakarta on Wednesday, where the vice rectors of the two Polish institutions will sign a partnership agreement with their local counterpart.
Dar Młodzieży, which was built in Gdańsk Shipyard in 1981, became the first Polish-built oceangoing sailing ship to circumnavigate the globe between 1987 and 1988.
Since departing from Gdynia on May 20, the ship has called on Tallinn, Copenhagen, Stavanger, Szczecin, Bremerhaven, Bordeaux, Tenerife, Dakar, Cape Town and Mauritius. From Jakarta, it will head to Singapore, Shanghai, Osaka, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Acapulco.
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