Hamzah to open Islam conference

Hamzah to open Islam conference

PEKANBARU: Vice President Hamzah Haz is scheduled to open on
Tuesday an Islamic conference on Muslim dynamism and its problems
in East Asian nations, to be held in Pekanbaru, Riau.

The conference, organized by the Susqa State Academy of Islam
Studies in Pekanbaru in cooperation with the Ministry of National
Education, will feature speakers Howard M Federsdiel of Ohio
University, Mitsuo Nakamura of Japan University, Karel A Steen
Brink of the Netherlands and a number of Indonesian, Malaysian
and Thai experts.

The conference is expected to be attended by 150 participants
from a number of countries, including Malaysia, Thailand,
Singapore, Brunei Darussalam and Vietnam, according to the
organizing committee.

The conference will also be attended by several observers from
the United States, France, England, Russia and Australia.

Wan Abubakar, chief of the Riau branch office of the United
Development Party (PPP), said on Monday that in addition to
opening the conference, Hamzah would also open a training course
for PPP members. -- Antara