{"id":215357,"date":"2026-03-13T10:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blj.co.id\/?p=215357"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:15:06","slug":"for-auld-lang-syne-a-diplomats-farewell-austrias-ambassador-remembers-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blj.co.id\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/for-auld-lang-syne-a-diplomats-farewell-austrias-ambassador-remembers-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"For Auld Lang Syne: A Diplomat\u2019s Farewell \u2014 Austria\u2019s Ambassador Remembers Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Business Lounge Journal &#8211; Foreign Insight)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Ambassador\u2019s residence is almost empty. Paintings and statuettes have been carefully packed, ready for the journey ahead. The white walls, once adorned with decorations, now stand bare. In the quiet rooms, the low hum of the air-conditioning seems louder than usual, as the residence patiently awaits its next residents. In these final days of his tenure, we sat down with the Ambassador of Austria to Indonesia, H.E. Thomas Loidl, to reflect on his nearly four years in the country,\u00a0sharing his fond memories of Indonesia as well as his hopes for a more resilient nation in the years to come.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Ambassador of Austria\u2019s last week \u2014 report from Jakarta\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n7E3mIqyb1A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"IEU\u2013CEPA Opening New Markets for Austrian and Indonesian Companies\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QhJ0ht7OX1g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Falling in Love with Indonesia: An Austrian Ambassador\u2019s Journey\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/asm-TGCaBcc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Michael Judah Sumbayak adalah pengajar di Vibiz LearningCenter (VbLC) untuk entrepreneurship dan branding. Seorang penggemar jas dan kopi hitam. Follow instagram nya di @michaeljudahsumbek<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Business Lounge Journal &#8211; Foreign Insight) The Ambassador\u2019s residence is almost empty. Paintings and statuettes have been carefully packed, ready for the journey ahead. The white walls, once adorned with decorations, now stand bare. In the quiet rooms, the low hum of the air-conditioning seems louder than usual, as the residence patiently awaits its next residents. In these final days of his tenure, we sat down with the Ambassador of Austria to Indonesia, H.E. Thomas Loidl, to reflect on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":215358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_typography_data":[],"_editorskit_blocks_typography":"","_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8043,2725,1368,8067],"tags":[7357],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blj.co.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blj.co.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blj.co.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blj.co.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blj.co.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blj.co.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215359,"href":"https:\/\/www.blj.co.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215357\/revisions\/215359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blj.co.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blj.co.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blj.co.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blj.co.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}