This year Indonesia, as the Chairman of ASEAN, has the honor to host the 18th ASEAN Summit in early May and the East Asia Summit by the end of 2011. On these occasions, Indonesia wish to reaffirm its commitment and strategic role in the formation of a new regional architecture in East Asia, especially with the participation of the United States and Russia. It hopes to attain dynamic equilibrium regionally and globally. Indonesia will ensure that the new East Asia regional architecture will provide significant contributions to the political and security aspects, as well as prosperity in the region.

MV Sinar Kudus was hijacked on March 16, 2011 while en route to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, carrying 200 tons of ferronickel worth more
than US$ 100 million. PT. Samudera Indonesia cooperated with the Government of Indonesia in determining the strategies to release the
crews immediately.

After careful negotiation, the Somalian pirates released the crews of MV Sinar Kudus on May 1, 2011. The Indonesian Armed Foces work unit,
Satgas Merah Putih, monitored the process and guarded the safe return of the ship to Indonesia. The Indonesian Government had not been able to provide detailed information on the rescue operation because it might endanger the safety of the crews and foil the entire rescue plan.

After 46 days of being held hostage by Somalian pirates, crews of MV Sinar Kudus have safely returned to Indonesia earlier in May. Some were
traumatized, but some were ready to be back on board.

For many years Indonesia has assisted many countries through training program. Despite the continuous effort from the Government of
Indonesia to improve the quality of the training through evaluation meeting and questionnaire to the participants, the Government of
Indonesia feels that it is necessary to develop an evaluation mechanism for all the training. By having an evaluation mechanism,
Government of Indonesia can measure the success level of a training and will have more inputs to make the quality of the program
higher.