It was a Friday night and the Bataclan concert hall was crowded with more than 1,000 fans gathered to watch the Californian band Eagles of Death Metal last weekend. Loud rock music reverberated in the popular venue. Julien Pearce, a journalist from Europe 1 Radio, was inside the concert hall when the shooting began an hour after the band started playing.
The visit last week of Denmark's Queen Margarethe II and her husband Prince Henrik to Indonesia is one indication of improving relations between the two countries. Beyond the usual protocols were serious meetings and discussions between Indonesian government and private sector representatives with a Danish delegation 62 business people, the first of such in the 65 years of relations between the two countries.
SINCE proclaimed Queen of Denmark in 1972, Margrethe II has never been to Indonesia. Her first inkling of Indonesia came after her mother, Queen Ingrid, had visited Bali. "My mother came home with a selection of batik," said Queen Margrethe at Fredensborg Palace, north of Copenhagen, Denmark, on Tuesday. This was why Queen Margrethe II was eager to visit Indonesia. The state visit will be her first in the 65 years of the two countries' bilateral relationship.
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