Aussies offer housing ties

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)