Menparekraf Ensures Lake Sentani Festival Enters KEN

Menparekraf Sandiaga Uno (right) while visiting one of the MSME booths at FDS, Wednesday (5/7) (ANTARA/Ardiles Leloltery)

SENTANI - Minister of Tourism and Economy (Menparekraf) Sandiaga Unomestrikan Festival Danau Sentani (FDS) will be included in the Kharisma Event Nusantara or KEN 2024 agenda.

"The Lake Sentani 2023 festival which is currently taking place is very lively, so that in the future we will increase it in the form of collaboration and curation so that the target in 2023 is the FDS to re-enter the good archipelago," said Menparekraf Sandiaga Uno on the sidelines of the opening of the FDS XIII 2023 in the Khalkote area, Sentani, Jayapura Regency, Papua, reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, July 5.

According to Sandiaga, the Jayapura Regency Government (Pemkab) asked the Lake Sentani Festival to be included in Kharisma Nusantara. Moreover, the festival is also supported by various culinary delights with processed sago products and products from Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), as well as cultural attractions.

The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy (Kemenparekraf), he said, has standards for KENs that involve curators and advisors for products from national and international scale events.

"So we are quite sure that the Lake Sentani Festival will be re-entered in the Kharisma Event Nusantara 2024 because we saw that it was good and only had a few more aspects to polish so that it would be better," said Menparekraf Sandiaga Uno.

He explained that the Lake Sentani XIII 2023 Festival, which carries the theme "Sagu Is Your Life", should not only be a slogan, but must be realized in the form of creative economy products.

"It could also be that if the processed sago product is managed properly, it can be recorded in the MURI record," said Sandiaga.

He said the Indonesian Record Museum (MURI) was a partner of the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy who encouraged the innovation of KEN participants to break the MURI record.

"So if in 2024 the Jayapura Regency Government proposes (KEN) in the process of collaboration and curation, then we will bring MURI here for something (innovation) that is different from others," said Menparekraf Sandiaga Uno.