The Indonesian Embassy in Wellington promotes Indonesian tourism and products to the people of New Zealand through participation in the Wellington Lantern Festival cultural exhibition. The festival was held for two days, on November 18-19, featuring various local and foreign cultural arts performances, live music entertainment and serving various types of culinary delights, according to a statement from the Indonesian Embassy in Wellington on Monday. At the cultural festival, the Indonesian pavilion introduced and promoted tourism by displaying videos, banners, brochures showing various tourist destinations in the country and giving away souvenirs in the form of fans and pens. The Indonesian Pavilion also displayed a number of creative products, such as accessories, handicraft bags, ties which generally had the nuances of batik and weaving. In addition, several Indonesian products that have entered the supermarket and are quite widely known in New Zealand are also being promoted again, including coffee, wafer food products, instant noodles, chili sauce, candy, coconut water and coconut milk drinks, tissue, and other products. so Indonesian cooking spices. To attract the attention of visitors, the Indonesian pavilion was also filled with various types of typical Indonesian market snacks such as lupis cakes, martabak, peyek, risoles to chicken satay, which were prepared by the Indonesian Embassy in Wellington.
In addition, Indonesia is conducting a free coffee tasting promotion to further introduce Indonesian Arabica coffee types from Sibalanga, North Sumatra which are available in a number of outlets and coffee shops in Wellington. On the occasion of the cultural performance, Indonesia also performed the playing of nearly 100 angklung involving spectators guided by the staff of the Indonesian Embassy in Wellington as a conductor which was witnessed by the visitors. Furthermore, the Wellington Lantern Festival was also enlivened by the display of decorative lights with various forms of sea and land animals placed along the corners of the exhibition location, which was introduced as the Lumino City vehicle. The vehicle displays various decorative lighting icons from several participating countries, one of which is Indonesia featuring the Komodo Dragon. The Komodo Lantern stole the attention of visitors who scrambled to take pictures in front of the icon, said the Indonesian Embassy in Wellington in a statement. This year's Lumino City Festival takes a strategic location in Wellington Bay, namely on the waterfront of the city of Wellington which is a location where city residents and foreign tourists are busy visiting. In the summer on weekends, the location is often visited by more than 20 thousand residents every weekend, especially before the Covid-19 pandemic. The organizers took advantage of this year's momentum as an effort to revive the tourism sector by holding various festival events in the summer until April 2023.
