Embassy of Canada to Indonesia and Timor-Leste
World Trade Centre 6th Floor, Jl. Jend. Sudirman kav. 29-31 12920 Jakarta, Indonesia

Canada is proud to join Yayasan Hivos, We Lead, PPMN, and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in launching the womenunlimited.id website yesterday. Despite comprising half the world’s population, women’s voices are still under-represented in and sometimes excluded from, public discussions. We need to change this. An initiative such as the womenunlimited website is a welcome contribution towards this struggle, said Ambassador Cameron MacKay. The website provides ...a database of profiles of women from a range of backgrounds and aims to strengthen women’s voices and leadership and reduce the inequality that women experience while promoting women’s representation in public spaces. This event reminds us that we need to continue to work towards gender equity while carving out space for women to voice their views as equal members of society at all levels.

The Embassies of Canada and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, together with Yayasan Hivos, We Lead, and PPMN are launching the womenunlimited.id website on March 25 at 14:15. Ambassador Cameron MacKay will deliver the keynote speech. Don’t miss the discussion "Voicing the Silenced: Strengthening Women's Voices and Leadership" by clicking the link: bit.ly/LaunchingWomenUnlimited.

Ambassador Cameron MacKay was pleased to join Sandiaga Uno, Indonesia’s Minister of Tourism and Creative Industry, last week for the successful launch of Muslim Kids TV a Canada-based online platform now providing kid-friendly ‘edutainment’ in Indonesia. We congratulate Milo Productions and Garis Sepuluh for the signing of a collaboration agreement to bring exciting new video, animation, games, e-books, and other interactive content by Canadian and Indonesian creatives to global audiences on MKTV’s innovative platform #diversity #pluralism

Happy International Francophonie Day! Today we celebrate the French language in all its diversity around the world. Bilingualism is part of the Canadian identity, and just like in Canada, our Embassy is proud of the diversity of our francophone community which includes both Canadian and Indonesian staff. In celebration of this special day, here are some members of our francophone community with their favourite French word. What’s yours?