The Peak Event Of National Press Day In Kendari Will Be Filled With President Jokowi's Speech

The Governor of Southeast Sulawesi, Ali Mazi (left) with the General Chairperson of the Central PWI, Atal Sembiring Depari. (Photo: Central PWI)

JAKARTA - The highlight of the 2022 National Press Day (HPN) commemoration will be centered in the courtyard of the Southeast Sulawesi (Sultra) Governor's Office, Kendari City, on February 9. President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is certain to give a speech at the peak event.

The series of events begins with the Regional Potential Exhibition, UMK, Creative Economy, Press, and Culinary Festival today (Sunday, 6/1/2022). The Governor of Southeast Sulawesi, Ali Mazi will be present as well as open the exhibition which will be held at the Tugu Persatuan MTQ Square. Still at the same location, in the evening there will be an entertainment stage filled with cultural arts parades from Indramayu, Sumba, Magetan, Buton, as well as poetry competitions.

The next day, the Southeast Sulawesi Indonesian Journalist Family Association (IKWI) held a social service for distributing basic necessities in the Unity Monument area starting at 07.00-10.00 WIB. After that, the IKWI Family Trip agenda to Toronip Beach was accompanied by the Southeast Sulawesi Tourism Office.

Another agenda on the second day of HPN 2022 is the simultaneous opening of the Mass Media Convention, National Seminar on Energy, National Seminar on Tourism, and Seminar on PEN which was held in a hybrid manner from Phinis Ballroom Hotel Claro. At this moment there will also be the signing of the Joint Declaration on the Awakening of Southeast Sulawesi Tourism and the Declaration on the National Energy Transition.

The Adinegoro Journalistic Award discussion (offline) is scheduled at 09.00 - 12.00 WITA at the Halo Oleo University Auditorium open to the public, presenting the Press Council as the Keynote Speak and resource persons for the Adinegoro Permanent Committee.

PWI Center also presents a Cultural Writing Clinic in the midst of the commemoration of the 2022 National Press Day (HPN) in Kendari City, with journalists, teachers and writers participating. The clinic, which will be guided by senior journalist Yusuf Susilo Hartono, will also feature Nungki Kusumastuti, a lecturer at the Jakarta Arts Institute who is also a dancer and film star.