Gus Dur to meet with Clinton

Gus Dur to meet with Clinton

BALTIMORE, Maryland (JP): President Abdurrahman Wahid is scheduled to meet with U.S. President Bill Clinton at the White House, Washington D.C., on Monday (local time), officials said.

Officials in the presidential entourage said Abdurrahman is scheduled for a 30-minute meeting with Clinton on Monday afternoon.

A schedule distributed on Sunday to journalists traveling with the President on his U.S. visit says that before the meeting, Abdurrahman will first undergo a medical checkup at the John Hopkins Hospital here on Monday morning.

The schedule also says that after the meeting, Gus Dur, as the President is popularly called, is scheduled to return to the hospital to undergo a second phase of his medical checkup.

The President is then scheduled to leave for New York on Monday evening.

The likelihood that Abdurrahman would meet with Clinton was first conveyed by Minister of Foreign Affairs Alwi Shihab in Salt Lake City on Saturday.

Abdurrahman said during the meeting that he plans to ask the American anticorruption body to assist with investigations into the wealth of former top Indonesian officials.

The Indonesian Attorney General's Office is currently conducting an investigation into the alleged abuse of power by former president Soeharto, which reportedly allowed certain people to amass wealth by the issuance of various rulings.

Abdurrahman said earlier that the information obtained from the research agency would be used as evidence to bring former state officials to court.(byg)