Asian-African Business Summit

Asian-African Business Summit

On April 21 and April 22 the Asian-African Business Summit was
held at Hotel Mulia, Jakarta.

The business summit hosted by the Indonesian Chamber of
Commerce and Industry (Kadin) will definitely yield encouraging
responses and the chairman of Kadin should be congratulated on
this.

While enjoying the absorbing speeches of the many heads of
state during the summit, the arrangements at Hotel Mulia, made
the two-day summit very interesting.

We were a team of eight delegates from the Economic
Association of Indonesia and India (ECAII), who attended all
sessions of the business summit. All the sessions were well
attended and there was all-round appreciation of the speeches.

While at the dinner session on April 21, at short notice,
decent vegetarian cuisine was provided for eight of us (all of
whom are vegetarians). Reciprocating this courtesy one of our
delegates handed his business card to the waiter -- Pak Muis, who
was coordinating our vegetarian meal.

Next day, April 22, lunch was served for all delegates -- a
Continental Buffet lunch. As we were helping ourselves to salad
the same person Pak Muis identified the member in our team (who
had handed him his business card) and profusely invited us to a
special table where elaborate vegetarian cuisine was served. We
were very grateful to Pak Muis for his coordination with Hotel
Mulia's management.

SIVA SUBRAMANIAN, Jakarta