French defense institute visits

French defense institute visits

JAKARTA (JP): A 98-member delegation from the French Institute
for Advanced Studies on National Defense will start a five-day
Indonesian mission tomorrow.

The French delegation will visit the Institute of National
Defense (Lemhanas) and the Center for Information and Development
Studies, a think tank belonging to the influential Association of
Indonesian Moslem Intellectuals.

The delegation will also attend conferences at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies, and at the Republika
newspaper, which is also run by the Moslem intellectual
association.

Led by Air Marshal Bernard Norlain, the delegation is due to
pay courtesy calls on Vice President Try Sutrisno, Minister of
Defense and Security Edi Sudrajat and Commander of the Armed
Forces Gen. Feisal Tanjung.

The delegation will also visit the exploration site of French
oil company Total on May 1.

Established after World War II, the institute is under the
authority of the French prime minister. He determines each year
the syllabus and the themes of the various studies to be
conducted.

The institute's mission is to provide senior civil servants,
senior military officers and senior executives from various
fields with extensive information on national defense in its
broader sense, a French embassy press release stated.(swe)