The ministry presents Kanal Indonesiana because there were no official media from Indonesia to be a forum for cultural diplomacy on the international level.
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology has launched Merdeka Belajar (Freedom in Learning) Episode 13, namely Kanal Indonesiana, which is a digital channel that promotes Indonesian culture.

"Kanal Indonesiana is one of the endeavors to realize the vision of cultural promotion as Indonesia is happy based on its cultural diversity that educates, reconciles, and prospers," Minister Nadiem Anwar Makarim said in an online statement, accessed here on Friday.

Indonesia is the first country in the world to have a Cultural Development Index to measure the promotion of culture, Makarim said.

The index measures cultural heritage, socio-cultural resilience, education, cultural economy, gender, cultural literacy, and cultural expression.

The index's score has increased from 2018 to 2019, but the value of the cultural expression aspect is still low, which is 37.14 from the value range of 0 to 100, he pointed out.

"This is because the media as a learning platform, a place of expression and interaction of Indonesian culture is still limited. It is time for this nation to have a flagship library of Indonesian culture and diversity," he said.

The ministry presented Kanal Indonesiana because there is no official media from Indonesia to be a forum for cultural diplomacy on the international level, he added.

"In fact, developed countries already have an integrated culture media that becomes a place of cultural diplomacy," Makarim said.

Several foreign cultural channels supported by the government in developed countries are Arirang TV supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of South Korea, and BBC Culture, which is a radio, television, film, website, and digital channel supported by the British Secretariat of State for Digital, Media, and Sports.

"If we want to strive to advance culture, we cannot rely on the old ways such as live performances on stage and cultural parades. We must utilize technology that enables the culture promotion to be done more broadly," the minister added.

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