South Lampung Regent Encourages Artist Creativity Through Cultural Performance
Translated from Indonesian, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.
At a glance
- The Regent of South Lampung, Radityo Egi Pratama, is promoting local artists through the 'Pentas Seni Budaya Helau' cultural art performance.
- The event serves as a platform for artistic expression and a driver for the local economy, involving micro, small, and medium enterprises (UMKM).
- The Regent aims to develop South Lampung into a tourist destination by fostering cultural promotion and improving tourism infrastructure, emphasizing cleanliness, beauty, comfort, and security.
South Lampung Regent Radityo Egi Pratama is fostering creativity among local artists by organizing the 'Pentas Seni Budaya Helau,' a cultural art performance event. Held at the Bundaran Tugu Khagom Mufakat in Kalianda District, the event provides a vital space for artistic expression while simultaneously stimulating the local economy through the involvement of surrounding micro, small, and medium enterprises (UMKM).
I am happy to see the creativity of young people like this. I hope events like this will continue to be held. The most important thing is cleanliness, tidiness, beauty, comfort, and security. That is what we must continue to maintain together.
"I am happy to see the creativity of young people like this. I hope events like this will continue to be held. The most important thing is cleanliness, tidiness, beauty, comfort, and security. That is what we must continue to maintain together," stated Radityo Egi Pratama during the event on Saturday, June 20.
This activity is expected to continue to be held regularly and develop into one of the flagship agendas of South Lampung Regency.
The Regent emphasized the significant role of the 'Pentas Seni Budaya Helau' in promoting local culture and strengthening regional tourism. He expressed his hope that the event would become a regular fixture and evolve into a flagship program for South Lampung Regency. "This activity is expected to continue to be held regularly and develop into one of the flagship agendas of South Lampung Regency," he said.
I want to make South Lampung Regency a tourist destination. If many tourists come, then the people of South Lampung will benefit. Tourism is very identical with cleanliness, tidiness, visitor comfort, and the hospitality of the host.
Radityo envisions South Lampung becoming a premier tourist destination, believing that increased tourism directly benefits the local community. He stressed that tourism is intrinsically linked to the environment's cleanliness, tidiness, visitor comfort, and the hospitality of the hosts. To achieve this, he urged residents to embrace the 'HELAU' program, an acronym for Hijau (Green), Elok (Beautiful), Lestari (Sustainable), Aman (Safe), and Unggul (Excellent), encouraging them to collectively maintain the region's appeal.
If the visitors who come bring back good stories about South Lampung, then it will be the best promotion for our region. Therefore, let us maintain cleanliness, tidiness, comfort, security, and hospitality together.
Originally published by Republika in Indonesian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.