Four books from UGM Press were sent and participated on display at the 2019 London Book Fair (LBF) which took place March 12-14 2019 in Olympia, London. “LBF is an international book exhibition event that is very important for the book world so that UGM Press includes its books to be shown at LBF. We send this year four books in English and in the coming year we will send more books, both in English and in Indonesian, “UGM Manager Press, Dr. I Wayan Mustika, Wednesaday (20/3).
The selected books include the Ecotourism Destination in Archipelago Countries by Muhammad Baiquni, Janianton Damanik, and Erda Rindrasih; Sustainability and Crisis at The Village: West Java Indonesian Agroforestry by Kosuke Mizuno and Siti Sugiah Mugniesyah (Editor); Early Ekranisasi: Bringing Novels to The Silver Screen in The Dutch East Indies by Christopher A. Woodrich; and 50 Years of Amity and Enmity: The Politics of ASEAN Cooperation by Poppy S. Winanti and Muhammad Rum (Editor).
“Indonesia’s presence as the LBF 2019 Market Focus was initiated and supported by the Creative Economy Agency (Bekraf) and the Ministry of Education and Culture, the National Book Committee, and the Indonesian Publishers Association (IKAPI) and the Association of Indonesian University Publishers (APPTI) to promote and market books to the world market. UGM Press and AUP Press contributed to present the four books and book catalogs from each publisher on the APPTI booth, “said I Wayan.
Head of UGM Publishing and Publication Agency, Dr. Widodo said that this was a very good momentum to continue to improve the position of books and books by UGM Press as an academic publisher on the world stage. “The presence of the UGM Press book at LBF 2019 is a very strategic step. Even that is a smart jump from a university publisher in order to open up the horizon of international publishing, “Widodo said. (Irwan / UGM Press)