Public Lecture by Paraguay Ambassador, Cesar Grillon at Universitas Pelita Harapan

Cesar Grillon shared his experience as a diplomat

On Wednesday, 25 June 2014, Cesar, as the Paraguay ambassador at Indonesia gave a little lecture about diplomat and his country development which is Paraguay. He also stated how his country could gain abudance energy for the country itself. In fact, Paraguay used their natural resources and change it into useful electrical energy.Cesar focuses his career on promoting his country culture, and also the commercial aspect of Paraguay. This event was made for the students from various faculties such as International Relation, Business, Civil Engineering, and Law. Aleksius Jemadu, as the Dean of FISIP also stated that whoever have the best questions will be given a prize from Cesar.

At first, he started to explained the meaning of diplomat and then continued to share his lifetime story. ?Diplomat comes from a Greek word that simply called accreditation by the president. In this situation, my request must be signed by the President of Indonesia, SBY. I was starting my diplomat experience from Miami for being the first consul general of Paraguay , and to be the first ambassador also in Southeast Asia. At that time, I didn?t know that I will stay at Indonesia. Before coming here, I was visiting Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.? Cesar even explained the privilege that a diplomat has. In order to protect the confidential file, any cabin or luggage of a diplomat must not be open anywhere. Whoever forced to open the luggage might be arrested for crime.

Besides talking about his job being a diplomat, he also shared his thought about Indonesia. According to him, Indonesia has a lot of potential to be a better country. Indonesia is similar with Paraguay and blessed with a lot of natural resources that can be useful for the country. The thing that makes Indonesia different from Paraguay is that Indonesia doesn?t have a clue to conserve their sources. While in Paraguay, the major source of the country energy come from the river surrounding Paraguay. They established a dam to pushed the water pressure coming from the river to be able to change into an electrical energy.?You must be proud of your country! You have abundance of resources that can be used. One of them is the Wayang Windu electrical program located in West Java. It was started a few years ago. Now you can get cheap energy from anywhere with the help of the country nature,?

?It was a pleasure to be invited to this prestigious university,?. To end the event, UPH had given him a little souvenir to be remembered for. In the end, Caesar had chosen the best questioner, which is Belinda from International Relation that asked him about cultural and commercial exchange between the country. Belinda had received a special custom made Paraguay flag, and an award from him. Cesar explained the specialness of the flag where Paraguay is the only country that draws two different icon at the both sides of the flag, which are a star and a lion. He was thankful to be able to share his knowledge on political ambassador, and promised to be able to speak Indonesian fluently the next time he visit UPH. (pris)