On January 14, 2012, delegates from Yayasan Gibbon Indonesia, led by Gusti Kanjeng Ratu Pembayun (eldest daughter of the King Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X of Yogyakarta) held a meeting with NGOs, private sectors and mass media of Luxembourg who have concern for the protection of orangutans in Indonesia. This meeting is part the visit of Yayasan Gibbon Indonesia to Europe in order to increase the awareness of the protection and rehabilitation of orangutans in Indonesia.

As the keynote speaker of Dr. Manfred Worner Circle, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia, H.E. Arif Havas Oegroseno has addressed the audience on the Regional Security Architecture in East and South East Asia. He highlighted an important strategic fact that Indonesia, the largest archipelagic state in the world, and its four chokepoints sea lanes as well as its remarkably highest economic growth, has contributed an important role to the maintenance of the security of the trade routes between Europe, Middle East and Asia. [Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia, Brussels]

Saman dance, recently declared as an intangible world cultural heritage by UNESCO, warmed the Asian Evening event organized by the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) and the Erasmus Mundus ‘MAHEVA’ Action 2 scholarship program participants from Asian countries in Brussels, 8 December 2011.

There are many opportunities for Eastern European countries, either individually or as the member of the European Union (EU), to deepen and expand mutually beneficial cooperation with countries in Asia. The message was conveyed by Ambassador Arif Havas Oegroseno when he spoke at the conference "The Rise of Asia - A Perspective from Eastern Europe" organized by the Asia Research Centre Poland and the European Institute for Asian Studies in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Poland to the European Union in the European Parliament, Brussels on December 8, 2011.