Christine Hakim Becomes UNESCO Ambassador
Tuesday, 11 March, 2008 | 15:12 WIB

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Indonesian actress, Christine Hakim, Tuesday (11/3) was appointed ambassador for UNESCO Southeast Asia. With this position, she will obtain support to campaign for quality improvement in education in this region.

“This is a big responsibility for me”, she said after the award was presented by UNESCO director, Koichiro Matsura, during a meeting for education ministers from 9 countries that have the biggest populations, in Nusa Dua, Tuesday (11/3).

The award, she said, is related to her activities at Foundation for Teachers that is focused on education. For a year, she and UNESCO have been mapping the educational issue in ASEAN countries including Timor Leste. For Christine, education is the key to development.

In the short term, her activity as a UNESCO ambassador will be focused on teacher quality improvement. Because, teachers have the important role to improve educational quality.

Through the foundation, she has been working on teacher quality improvement and supplying teachers to remote areas, especially in eastern Indonesia.

Rofiqi Hasan