Ms. Mushifah Jusuf Kalla, spouse of Vice President of Indonesia Jusuf Kalla, visited the Vietnamese Embassy's booth (photo: VNA)
The bazaar has nearly 60 booths of embassies in Jakarta, and more than 200 booths of Indonesian businesses.
In addition, there are some WIC booths displaying items of members, friends and gifts from sponsors.
For many years, the bazaar has been welcomed by the foreigner community in Jakarta and Indonesian people, because it is an opportunity to find special, unique and interesting gifts for their friends and families.
Embassies' booths all introduce their unique national products such as traditional kimono costume of Japan, kimchi of the Republic of Korea, Batik clothing of Indonesia, cheese products of the Netherlands, and chocolates of Switzerland.
The booth of the Vietnamese Embassy displayed traditional handicraft products such as souvenirs, lacquer paintings, ceramic statues in traditional costumes of Vietnam’s three regions, and jewelry made of wood and stone.
Especially, Vietnam’s coffee is bought by many customers at the annual bazaars.
Ms. Mushifah Jusuf Kalla, spouse of Vice President of Indonesia Jusuf Kalla, visited the Vietnamese Embassy's booth and enjoyed the variety of beautiful souvenirs.
Besides, many other goods are sold such as clothing, footwear, bags, jewelry, housewares, pottery, picture frames, greeting cards, Christmas decorations, toys and food products.
At the end of the bazaar, 40% of the profits will be used to support social welfare projects in the local community.
This year, the fund will support 15 projects, including supporting schools for poor children, orphans and street children; assisting material facility for centres taking care of the elderly and psychiatric patients.
Usually, WIC members voluntarily teach English and handicrafts for schools. The WIC Scholarship Fund also supports humanitarian projects in Jakarta.
During the bazaar, the visitors enjoyed a special artistic and cultural program introducing the unique culture of Indonesia’s North Kalimantan and artistic programs of embassies./.
WIC was founded in 1950 in order to help improve the social life in Indonesia, promote the development of education and culture.
The motto of WIC is, through activities, to promote the friendship among women with different nationalities in Indonesia.