Radio Taiwan International (Rti) is heading to Indonesia to attend listeners’ club events and meet with local media and educational institutions.

Rti president Cheryl Lai will lead a team to visit Kalimantan on June 2 and Jakarta on June 4 to deepen relations between Taiwan and Indonesia and expand Rti’s international network.

Rti launched its Indonesian service in 1957, providing Taiwan’s Indonesian communities with information and entertainment. It will interact with local listeners for the first time in five years, attending events initiated by the listeners’ clubs in Indonesia.

In West Kalimantan, Rti will partner with the Borneo Listeners Club for the first time and host a listeners’ event in the provincial capital of Pontianak. Pontianak Mayor Ir. Edi Rusdi Kamtono will be in attendance to support the event. Rti will also sign a cooperation memorandum with Radio Volare, a local radio station, to jointly create a 30-minute program every quarter.

At the Jakarta listeners’ club event, veteran monitors will share their experiences listening to the radio across more than 50 years. Rti also plans to sign a letter of intent to collaborate with local media group Metrum Media.

In addition to attending the listeners’ club events, Rti will also meet with other local educational and media institutions, such as Radio Republik Indonesia, MINA News Agency, IDN Times, Tanjungpura University.

Rti is the first international media organization to host in-person listeners’ events in Indonesia. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rti regularly visited and interacted with listeners’ clubs in various countries every one to two years. Rti is now resuming this tradition, including a planned trip to Thailand in September to interact with even more international listeners.