Clinic opens for business

Clinic opens for business

JAKARTA (JP): The London Institute of Communications Jakarta
in cooperation with the Pasundan University of Bandung will soon
open a "business clinic" that will provide consultancy services
to people intending to enter into food and food processing
businesses using local materials.

The institute said an agreement for the establishment of the
clinic was signed on Wednesday by the institute's director Prita
Kemal Gani and Adang Kadarusman, dean of Pasundan's School of
Industrial Technology.

Besides providing consultancy and information services, the
clinic will eventually provide assistance in marketing,
capitalization and other aspects of particular value for small
entrepreneurs, it said.

The institute and the university will also jointly organize a
one-day exhibition and demonstration on food and food processing
technology at Dewan Pers building in Jakarta on Nov. 30.

Among the clinic's first "patients" will be relatives and
widows of journalists as well as retired journalists to help them
cope with the current economic crisis, it said. (emb)