Polish Embassy to hold cultural events

Polish Embassy to hold cultural events

INDONESIA: This year, both Indonesia and Poland are commemorating
the 50th anniversary of their establishment of diplomatic
relations. To mark this occasion, the Polish Embassy in Jakarta
is organizing two important events this week.

The embassy will feature two young Polish artists who have
fallen in love with Indonesia.

The first event will be a photo exhibition by Piotr
Jakubowski, a Polish national born and raised in Jakarta, who
took the photographs in Indonesia.

"Most of the photographs were taken during a visit to Aceh
which show the courageous response of the Acehnese people to the
tragedy they suffered following the tsunami," the embassy said in
a press release sent to The Jakarta Post.

The second event will be a piano recital by Marta Podolska, a
pianist who is currently a music lecturer at Pelita Harapan
University in Karawaci.

Both the events will be held on Thursday.

Polish Ambassador to Indonesia Tomasz Lukaszuk said that in
the past three years, relations between Indonesia and Poland had
reached a new height following visits by Poland's President
Aleksander Kwasniewski and then prime minister Marek Belka to
Indonesia in 2004 and 2005 respectively. --JP