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Comment
to : batrav@indo.net.id |
Joint
Declaration
Special ASEAN Leaders Meeting on
(SARS)
1.
We, the Heads of State/Government
of ASEAN gathered in Bangkok, Thailand
for the Special ASEAN Leaders Meeting
on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS) on 29 April 2003; 2. Reaffirming
our primary responsibility in ensuring
the peaceful and progressive development
of our respective countries and
our region; 3. Resolving to maintain
and strengthen the fundamental policies
that have brought us many years
of growth and prosperity and strongly
reaffirming our commitment to keep
our economies and borders open;
4. Recognising that SARS poses a
serious challenge not just to our
region but globally and deeply concerned
about its consequences to the well-being
of the people and the economic development
of this region; 5. Recognising that
the number of victims of SARS world-wide
has been on the increase and World
Health Organisation’s assessment
that SARS could become that first
severe new disease of the 21st century
with global epidemic potential;
6. Acknowledging with gratitude
the important role of the WHO in
a worldwide campaign to control
and contain the spread of SARS;
7. Recognising the need for members
to take individual (as well as collective)
responsibility to implement stringent
measures to control and contain
the spread of SARS and the importance
of transparency in implementing
these measures; 8. Acknowledging
that prevention, treatment, care
and support for those infected by
SARS are mutually reinforcing elements
that must be integrated in a comprehensive
approach to curb the spread of SARS;
9. Expressing appreciation at the
initiative by Malaysia to organise
the first ASEAN + 3 Health Ministers’
Special Meeting on SARS in Kuala
Lumpur on 26 April 2003 and endorsing
the decisions arrived at the Meeting
(Annex A); 10. Recognising the value
of exchanging experiences and information
among ASEAN Member Countries which
have been successful in controlling
and rolling-back the spread of SARS,
whereof Vietnam is a good example;
and 11. Taking into account all
the extensive measures taken by
individual ASEAN countries in addressing
this problem since the WHO’s
Global SARS Alert on 12 March 2003.
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Gianyar
Regent Received THK Team
 GIANYAR
– The Tri Hita Karana (THK)
Tourism Award team led by Beratha
Ashrama had an audience with Gianyar’s
Regent, A.A. Gede Bharata, at the
latter’s office on 22 April
2003, with the aim of introducing
the team’s members and congratulating
Gianyar’s chief official for
being the highest-ranked official
in the region in place of Cokorde
Gede Budi Suryawa of Ubud. Picture
shows the new regent, Bharata, talking
to Beratha Ashrama (in black suite).
(YB)
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The
Inaugural Ceremony
 NUSA
DUA - The State Minister of Culture
and Tourism, I Gede Ardika inaugurated
765 students of Bali Tourism Institute
– Sekolah Tinggi Pariwisata
(STP) Bali at Bali International
Convention Centre (BICC), Nusa Dua
on Friday April 25, 2003. In his
speech in the closing ceremony,
the minister told the audience of
graduate students in the field of
tourism, ‘Take a chance in
challenging the future, the period
after the Kuta Bomb Blast,’
he said. All of us agree that tourism
has become one of South–East
Asia’s foremost industries,
so the minister stressed that the
educated community must be visionaries
in their own fields. He felt that
the future of tourism in Bali was
in good hands. ‘Through the
warm hand shake of graduated students,
I feel that all of them have a warm
spirit,’ the minister added.
There was a chorus group to accompany
the ceremony, located on the balcony.
In the opening ceremony, the Saraswati
dance depicting the life and function
of the goddess of science and literature
was performed for invitees. Commenting
on the dance, the minister said
proudly that art is an element of
culture, to strengthen the culture
itself. (ls)
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Bird
Watching Training
 NUSA
DUA - Twenty-five staff from Bali
Tourism Development Corporation (BTDC)
Nusa Dua took eco-tourism bird-watching
training around the Nusa Dua lagoon
complex, in the first and second weeks
of April 2003. The training is expected
to improve the staff’s understanding
about birds, bird conservation and
the potential for bird watching in
the area. The training was led by
Anak Agung Gde Raka Dalem, an eco-tourism
and environmental management researcher
from the Research Centre for Culture
and Tourism at Udayana University.
Nusa Dua lagoon has great potential
to be developed as a bird watching
site, because it has a high diversity
and number of birds, and is very close
to premier tourist destinations in
Bali such as Nusa Dua, Sanur and Kuta.
In addition to endemic and migrant
species as well as spectacular egrets
have attracted bird watchers to the
complex. (rd)
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