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Polish ship visits Jakarta to celebrate friendship with RI
Stopping by: The Polish ship Dar Młodzieży docks at Tanjung Priok Port, North Jakarta on Tuesday, as part of the ship’s 10-month-long global journey to celebrate Poland’s 100th Independence Day anniversary
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topping by: The Polish ship Dar Młodzieży docks at Tanjung Priok Port, North Jakarta on Tuesday, as part of the ship’s 10-month-long global journey to celebrate Poland’s 100th Independence Day anniversary. (JP/Arief Suhardiman)
The Polish ship Dar Młodzieży, gift of youth in English, has docked at the Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakarta.
The ship is currently embarking on a global journey to mark Poland’s 100th Independence Day anniversary on Nov. 11, stopping in Indonesia to boost people-to-people, business-to-business and government-to-government exchanges between the two countries.
The ship, which has a total length of 108.8 meters and a mast height of 49.5 m, was built at the Gdańsk shipyard in Poland in 1981 and has since been used as a training ground for students of the Gdynia Maritime University. The ship was the first Polish-built, ocean-going sailing vessel to circumnavigate the globe from 1987 to 1988.
The ship left the port of Gdynia on May 20 and is on its way to visit 22 ports in 18 countries. The ship has already been to Tallinn, Estonia; Copenhagen, Denmark; Stavanger, Norway; Cape Town, South Africa and Dakar, Senegal, among others.
After stopping at Tanjung Priok, the ship will continue its journey to Singapore before heading to Shanghai, China; San Francisco and Los Angeles, the United States, and Acapulco, Mexico, among others.
The ship will mark the end of its journey at the 34th World Youth Day in Panama in January. Afterwards, it will continue to stop at several places, including the United Kingdom, before returning to Gdynia.
To welcome the ship, which comprises 160 crew members and 1,000 volunteers, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Jakarta hosted an on-board dinner reception on Wednesday.
In conjunction with the ship’s arrival in Jakarta, Poland also sent a number of official delegates representing its maritime industry and food producers as well as government representatives to conduct meetings with their Indonesian counterparts, such as Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti.
The reception was opened by Polish Ambassador to Indonesia Beata Stoczyńska and Polish Maritime Affairs and Inland Navigation Deputy Minister Anna Moskwa.
“Through this visit, we hope to energize our bilateral ties with Indonesia. In November, delegates from our Foreign Affairs Ministry will also visit Indonesia,” Stoczyńska said.
According to Moskwa, the delegates also came to Jakarta to promote Polish foods, which are similar to Indonesian dishes in terms of their use of herbs and spices, as well as to promote business engagements in the maritime sector.
“Indonesia is a country with an abundance of fish; Poland has a strong fish processing industry but we lack fish. In addition to that, Poland has a strong shipyard management system; the country’s shipyards can collaborate with their Indonesian counterparts to establish common [fishery] production centers,” Moskwa told The Jakarta Post.
The Polish maritime students, accompanied by Gdynia Maritime University vice rector Ireneusz Czarnowski, also met their Indonesian counterparts during a visit to the Jakarta Sailing Academy campus in Cilincing, North Jakarta.
The ship’s captain, Ireneusz Lewandowski, said he was happy to bring Polish maritime students to interact with Indonesians.
