RI-France cultural cooperation

RI-France cultural cooperation

JAKARTA: In a bid to boost bilateral ties between Indonesia
and France, the French Embassy will launch a French music program
in cooperation with a local radio station here.

French Ambassador to Indonesia Herve Ladsous said on Thursday
that the program would introduce several leading French
musicians.

"We hope that music can function as a means of building a
close friendship between the Indonesian and French people," he
said on the sidelines of an agreement-signing ceremony for the
launching of the program with representatives of the Hard Rock FM
radio station and the Carrefour hypermarket company.

The program, which is to be called Studio Carrefour, will go
on the air on April 6 and be broadcast every Saturday between 3
p.m. and 4 p.m. for 15 weeks.

Ladsous also said that starting on June 23, the embassy
together with French television channel TV5 would relay another
French program in Greater Jakarta, Yogyakarta and Bali in an
attempt to further help introduce French culture to Indonesia. --
JP