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        "msgid": "indonesia-to-host-congress-festival-on-bamboo-next-year-1447893297",
        "date": "1994-04-13 00:00:00",
        "title": "Indonesia to host congress, festival on bamboo next year",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Indonesia to host congress, festival on bamboo next year JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia will host the fourth international bamboo congress and festival in Bali next year, Minister of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications Joop Ave says. \"U.S. Vice President Al Gore is expected to present a key-note address to congress, which will be attended by 150 bamboo scientists of the International Network of Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR),\" he said here Monday.",
        "content": "<p>Indonesia to host congress, festival on bamboo next year<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia will host the fourth international <br>\nbamboo congress and festival in Bali next year, Minister of <br>\nTourism, Post and Telecommunications Joop Ave says.<\/p>\n<p>\"U.S. Vice President Al Gore is expected to present a key-note <br>\naddress to congress, which will be attended by 150 bamboo <br>\nscientists of the International Network of Bamboo and Rattan <br>\n(INBAR),\" he said here Monday.<\/p>\n<p>INBAR, established by the International Bamboo Association <br>\n(IBA), has 86 members from 35 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Joop said the event, which will take place in Ubud on June 1-4 <br>\nof next year, will also feature a trade exhibition, architecture <br>\ncompetition, cultural shows and will be broadcast live, worldwide <br>\nby satellite.<\/p>\n<p>Congress participants will have opportunities to visit plants <br>\nthat process bamboo products, he said.<\/p>\n<p>State Minister of Environment Sarwono Kusumaatmadja said <br>\nIndonesia has a large number of bamboo species but it has not <br>\ndiversified the use of bamboo for daily lives.<\/p>\n<p>Bamboo can be used for various purposes, such as stump <br>\nfertilizing, production of handicrafts, construction and paper <br>\nmaking. So far, bamboo in Indonesia is used only by small-scale <br>\nindustrial groups to produce chopsticks, handicrafts and <br>\ntoothpicks.<\/p>\n<p>Sarwono said the protection of the environment will improve if <br>\nIndonesia can encourage the use of natural resources for business <br>\npurposes because businessmen will have a vested interest in <br>\nmaintaining their operations.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry <br>\n(Kadin) Aburizal Bakrie said that bamboo has bright prospects as <br>\none of major international commodities.<\/p>\n<p>According to Linda Garland, president of the Environmental <br>\nBamboo Foundation World in Indonesia, the world's bamboo <br>\nharvesting reached 20 million tons per annum.<\/p>\n<p>She said someone needs between three and five years to recover <br>\ntheir investment for a new bamboo plantation.(icn)<\/p>",
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