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Surakarta hosting ASEAN Blogger Festival

The local chapter of the ASEAN Blogger Community is hosting the 2013 ASEAN Blogger Festival Indonesia (ABFI), aimed at increasing public awareness of the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015

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Sun, May 12, 2013 Published on May. 12, 2013 Published on 2013-05-12T14:17:37+07:00

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he local chapter of the ASEAN Blogger Community is hosting the 2013 ASEAN Blogger Festival Indonesia (ABFI), aimed at increasing public awareness of the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015.

Three-hundred bloggers from all over Indonesia and other ASEAN member nations are in Surakarta, Central Java, from May 10 to 12, for the event, sponsored by the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the local administration, among others.

Advisor of the Indonesia-chapter ASEAN Blogger Community, Ambassador Hazairin Pohan, said Surakarta was chosen to host the festival to promote the city's heritage sites to ASEAN member nations in which it would become ASEAN cultural heritage-connecting dot.

'Indonesian bloggers back the establishment an ASEAN Blogger Community, marked by an awareness on the importance of creating a caring and sharing society among netizens in ASEAN towards the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015,' a statement made available to The Jakarta Post on Saturday said.

The statement said that the festival would feature discussions on social media in the ASEAN integration process; workshops on photo and video blogging, online businesses, and online advocacy; heritage site visits; exhibitions; cultural performances; competitions, among other things. (ebf)

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