Focus On Canada established

Focus On Canada established

JAKARTA (JP): Five organizations involved in Indonesia- Canadian relations have decided to unite into one association called Focus On Canada.

The new association, supported by the Canadian Embassy, unveiled its new logo in ceremony last Thursday at the Regent Hotel.

Prof. Fuad Hassan, a former Indonesian minister of education and culture and University of Toronto graduate, presided over the ceremony.

Focus On Canada's first activity in 1996 will be an exhibition of paintings by Marsha Stonehouse, a Canadian artist whose works depict panoramas of Bali.

Mrs. Halimah Bambang Trihatmodjo, a daughter-in-law of President Soeharto, is scheduled to open the exhibition.

FOC activities will lead up to the arrival of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien next January.