{"id":34804,"date":"2026-08-28T13:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/34804\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:20:10","slug":"belgium-to-reactivate-honorary-consul-in-medan-archipelago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/34804\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium to reactivate honorary consul in Medan – Archipelago"},"content":{"rendered":"

elgium plans to reactivate its honorary consul post in Medan, North Sumatra, in consideration of the city’s strategic potential as one of Indonesia’s international gateways and as the largest city on the island of Sumatra.<\/p>\n

The Belgian ambassador to Jakarta, David Jordens, said in the past there had been an honorary consul in Medan that became inactive over time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will reactivate the honorary consul in Medan to facilitate diplomacy channels, business and inter-citizen relations,\u201d Jordens said when meeting Medan Mayor Rico Tri Putra Bayu Waas at Medan City Hall on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe presence of an honorary council will help strengthen relations and open cooperation opportunities between Belgium and Medan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rico welcomed the plan to reactivate the Belgian honorary council in the North Sumatra provincial capital city.<\/p>\n

The mayor said Medan was a multicultural city with residents from various religions and cultures, in addition to being an international gateway in Sumatra.<\/p>\n

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Medan also has potential for micro, small and medium enterprises and the creative economy, Rico said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"elgium plans to reactivate its honorary consul post in Medan, North Sumatra, in consideration of the city’s strategic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,137,6947,1596,14238,18705,18704,15776,18706,1857],"class_list":["post-34804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-chocolate","tag-cocoa","tag-cooperation","tag-honorary-consul","tag-medan","tag-north-sumatra","tag-palm-oil","tag-reactivation","tag-sport"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117173343984869561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}