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        "id": 1034021,
        "msgid": "ambassadorship-1447899208",
        "date": "1996-06-24 00:00:00",
        "title": "Ambassadorship",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Ambassadorship \"When Washington is awake, I am asleep. And even better when I am awake, Washington is sleeping\" -- Walter Mondale, the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, tells interestingly of the inherent perks associated with certain ambassadorial postings. However, Mr. Allan Robert Taylor, the outgoing Australian Ambassador to Indonesia, wishes to carry with him images of the country's beautiful scenery gathered during his travels throughout the archipelago (The Jakarta Post, June 20, 1996).",
        "content": "<p>Ambassadorship<\/p>\n<p>\"When Washington is awake, I am asleep. And even better when I<br>\nam awake, Washington is sleeping\" -- Walter Mondale, the U.S.<br>\nAmbassador to Japan, tells interestingly of the inherent perks<br>\nassociated with certain ambassadorial postings.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mr. Allan Robert Taylor, the outgoing Australian<br>\nAmbassador to Indonesia, wishes to carry with him images of the<br>\ncountry's beautiful scenery gathered during his travels<br>\nthroughout the archipelago (The Jakarta Post, June 20, 1996). In<br>\nperfect humility, Taylor says: \"The good things in the<br>\nrelationship of the two countries would have happened without<br>\nme.\"<\/p>\n<p>How an Ambassador feels once back in his home country is<br>\nvividly portrayed by Sidney Sheldon in his novel Windmills of the<br>\nGods: \"An Ambassador arrives in tears (in a foreign country)<br>\nbecause he knows he will be spending years in a foreign place,<br>\naway from his friends but when he leaves, he leaves in tears<br>\nbecause he must leave his new friends in a country he has grown<br>\nfond of.\"<\/p>\n<p>Yes, when we meet a stranger, we should leave him as a friend.<br>\nAn Ambassador does precisely this function for his country.<\/p>\n<p>However, there's one difference with Indonesia. An Ambassador<br>\nwho is posted to Jakarta does not have to deal with strangers --<br>\non the contrary, he will find the most friendly people he could<br>\never hope for.<\/p>\n<p>It is not incumbent only upon an Ambassador to foster good<br>\nrelations between his and the host peoples. Every foreigner is an<br>\nunofficial representative of his country and each one, in his own<br>\nway, should endeavor to build bridges of goodwill between his<br>\ncountry and the host nation, in addition to establishing<br>\nmeaningful and friendly relationships with expatriates of other<br>\nnationalities.<\/p>\n<p>Any expatriate returning home from Indonesia will no doubt<br>\ncarry happy memories of his\/her life here. But, what makes<br>\nIndonesia unique is that the returning expatriate might well<br>\nbecome an unofficial goodwill Ambassador for Indonesia in his<br>\nhome country.<\/p>\n<p>D. CHANDRAMOULI<br>\n  Jakarta<\/p>",
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