Aussies offer housing ties

JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia and Western Australia plan to set up a housing cooperation scheme through an exchange of construction technology and management for improving housing services.

Djoewanda Djoekardi, senior secretary to the State Minister of Public Housing, told reporters yesterday that the visiting Western Australian Minister for Aboriginal and Housing Affairs, Antony Kevin R. Prince, has offered Indonesia new technology to produce high quality housing materials for the development of public houses.

"Western Australia also offers technology for high-rise buildings and various infrastructures," Djoewanda said.

Prince yesterday met with State Minister of Public Housing Akbar Tandjung to discuss the housing cooperation.

Prince's delegation, consisting of 10 executives of various housing and construction businesses, ended its three-day Indonesian visit yesterday after meeting with executives of the association of housing developers (REI) and the Association of Indonesian Builders. (fhp)