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'Wonderful Indonesia' video earns praises at Wonderful Indonesia Tourism Awards 2017
The Indonesian tourism promotional video titled Wonderful Indonesia: The Journey to a Wonderful Indonesia that took home two awards for people’s choice award and East Asia and Pacific categories at the UNWTO Video Competition was honored at the Wonderful Indonesia Tourism Awards 2017 that was held as a part of Tourism National Coordination Meeting III.
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The Indonesian tourism promotional video titled Wonderful Indonesia: The Journey to a Wonderful Indonesia that took home two awards for people’s choice award and East Asia and Pacific categories at the UNWTO Video Competition was honored at the Wonderful Indonesia Tourism Awards 2017 that was held as a part of Tourism National Coordination Meeting III. (Shutterstock/File)
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he Indonesian tourism promotional video titled Wonderful Indonesia: The Journey to a Wonderful Indonesia that took home two awards for people’s choice award and East Asia and Pacific categories at the UNWTO Video Competition was honored at the Wonderful Indonesia Tourism Awards 2017 that was held as a part of Tourism National Coordination Meeting III.
The team behind the three-minute video was director Condro Wibowo and David John Schaap and Widika Sidmore who starred in the video.
“Very happy of course, no words can describe how proud we are of our hard work that was recognized by the world,” said Widika.
“But of course this isn’t surprising for me since Indonesia is really as beautiful and special as what is shown in Wonderful Indonesia videos and Indonesia deserves the two awards from UNWTO,” she added.
At the event, Widika also shared her experience of shooting the video that took one month to finish.
“Every location has its own uniqueness, you can’t generalize all of them. It was never easy for easy but since we worked together as a family all obstacles became easy. You can imagine how amazed we were when we saw each location for the first time,” Widika said.
According to Condro, there were a total of 34 people who were part of the production team, “These awards are a bonus, what matters is we had fun [doing it]. The place with the best view was definitely at Raja Ampat, we had a bit of difficulty when we were about to go up to the Ijen Crater and climbing Mount Rinjani in Lombok, but everybody was happy and we’re like a family,” Condro said.
The visualization of the video was even better with Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” playing in the background. Condro said that the song was a special request from tourism minister Arief Yahya, Arief felt that the song truly captures Indonesian tourism.
“This was also a challenge for us. I already had my own back sound before but when the minister requested the song we then had to synchronize the visual so that it would go harmoniously with the song,” Condro said.
“Up next is we are working on another video for next year, I can’t tell you anything about this yet but it could be the 10 Priority Destinations that have been set by the ministry,” he added.
“These are our hero, thank you David and Widika, you have made this nation proud and also Condro, the young, fine director. We truly appreciate this win, it’s an effective promotional tool,” said tourism minister Arief Yahya. (asw)
