YOGYAKARTA - President of the Federal Republic of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier met with the Governor of the Special Region of Yogyakarta who is also the King of the Yogyakarta Palace, Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X at the Yogyakarta Palace.
President Steinmeier and his entourage arrived at the Yogyakarta Palace at around 15.00 WIB and were greeted by Sultan HB X and his daughters.
The first daughter of Sultan HB X GKR Mangkubumi explained the conversation between the German President and Sultan HB X, among others, discussed environmental management.
Before talking with the Sultan, President Steinmeier was invited to see an exhibition of a number of collections ranging from batik, glassware, leather puppets, to various manuscripts belonging to the palace.
"The discussion explained about the privileges of Yogyakarta, then about the environment because Germany has advanced technology and research for environmental issues," said Mangkubumi as quoted by Antara, Friday, June 17.
With Germany's technological advances, he hopes that collaboration will emerge to overcome environmental problems in Yogyakarta.
"Of course we also want to collaborate with them to manage environmental problems in Yogyakarta," he said.
According to Mangkubumi, Germany and Yogyakarta both have concerns in the aspect of preserving cultural heritage, especially regarding architecture.
"We say we want to protect the cultural heritage in Yogyakarta because in Germany there is a lot of concern about cultural heritage, about houses, ancient buildings, so they are all together because they are more concerned with the environment," he said. .
During the meeting, said Mangkubumi, Sultan HB X and President Steinmeier had the opportunity to enjoy coffee and tea as well as a beksan or lawung ageng dance performance at Tratag Bangsal Kencana.
The German president, according to him, was impressed by the dance by Sultan HB I because it has musical accompaniment with dynamic characteristics.
"Because lawung ageng has lively music because it has a trumpet, there is a drum. Well, he thought the smart one was only in Bali," he said.
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