Contoh Opening Address

Distinguished guests and partners from various parts of globe

Ladies and gentlemen

It’s a pleasure to address you today.

I would like to congratulate the University of ............... and the ..............Medical Institute on hosting the Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV here in ...............

Not long ago I was privileged to talk at the Centre for AIDS Programme of Research board and scientific meeting.

While we are on the way to preventing HIV transmission, we are still faced with the terrible reality of HIV and TB co-infection.

It was six years ago that we learned about the outbreak of extremely drug resistant TB in the rural area of ............

The subsequent deaths of ....patients within two weeks of diagnosis reinforced the urgency of our search for effective interventions to control this disease.

We now know that the problem is not confined to ....., with subsequent diagnosis of XDR-TB cases in other parts of ............. since .....

The world-wide attention that ............. received because of the outbreak and the severity of the problem led the .............and ....... to join forces and to plan and develop the ........ as you are all well aware.

The Ministry of Health is, of course, delighted to have played a role in providing some of the initial capital for the establishment of ...........

It’s important that we as Indonesian remain at the forefront in conducting research and development for HIV and TB prevention, treatment, and diagnosis. This is critical in ensuring that we develop locally suited solutions that will be beneficial and accessible to local communities.

Ladies and gentlemen, HIV and TB have become the greatest public health challenges both nationally and globally. If we look at these two infectious diseases together, some ...............lives are lost annually around the globe. And it is ........... that is most seriously affected, with a significant proportion of the people dying from AIDS and TB concentrated in .......

We are ........ achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals. If we look at the goal of halting by 2015 and beginning to reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS and tuberculosis, there is a clear significant risk of not achieving this goal in ......... in particular. Yet without good health and taking into account the problem of poverty among our people, economic and social development in ............will remain extremely difficult to achieve.

In continuing our battle with the two infectious diseases, it will be important for us to address challenges impacting on our health system comprehensively while at the same time intensifying our efforts in research and development for TB, HIV and AIDS diagnosis, prevention and treatment.

We, therefore, need to play a leading role in responding urgently to these twin epidemics.

We will never have a monopoly in the production of solutions to address these complex challenges, and all our efforts should recognise the need for meaningful partnerships with both local and global role players.

Partnerships with industry partners will be required to accelerate the drug discovery programme and catapult the probes into the next phase of research and development.

We have also established the .............

This we did with the intention of promoting evidence-based research in finding solutions to the HIV and AIDS pandemic and contributing to the overall aims of the country’s ............. National Strategic Plan for HIV and AIDS and sexually transmitted infections.

It also aims to investigate a comprehensive range of interventions necessary to address the HIV epidemic, such as vaccines, antiretroviral therapies, microbicides, post and pre-exposure prophylaxis, and the research and development of diagnostics for HIV and AIDS. Capacity-building initiatives for young researchers form an integral part of the initiative.

The objective of this initiative is to contribute to local and global research efforts aimed at developing new tools for controlling tuberculosis and to use research as a vehicle for training a new generation of high-quality biomedical research scientists.

The research is aimed at the development of multidisciplinary approaches for understanding the epidemiology of the disease and identification of novel bacterial and host markers that will shorten the time taken to develop new diagnostic tools.

We continue to be impressed by the ground-breaking work that these three universities are doing and look forward to more successes in this regard.


Furthermore, I am proud that we have several internationally-recognised TB and HIV and AIDS research groups that form part of the major international consortia involved in the global effort to fight TB and HIV and AIDS.

In recent years, we have become one of the leading stakeholders in the design and execution of clinical trials for new drugs and vaccines.

I hope that today’s symposium serves as a valuable opportunity for us to reinforce our international partnerships in the areas of infectious disease and health cooperation in general.

From my department’s side, we will continue to work relentlessly to provide a platform for governments, policy makers, researchers, universities, and other stakeholders to share ideas on research, development and innovation and to mobilise resources and forge partnerships to address health challenges.

It is my sincere hope that the outcomes of your deliberations will enhance our knowledge of the issues related to tuberculosis and HIV as well as empower us to contribute to more intelligent policy interventions in our quest to improve the quality of health for the rest of humanity.

We will be waiting for the outcomes of this symposium with great interest.

Thank you.