Holland gives $22m grant to Indonesia

Holland gives $22m grant to Indonesia

JAKARTA: The Netherlands recently gave Indonesia a US$22 million
grant to improve the country's water and sanitation facilities,
the Royal Dutch Embassy said last week.

With the grant, Holland will establish the Dutch Water and
Sanitation Trust Fund to support the Indonesian government and
other stakeholders in addressing the structural deficiencies in
the water and sanitation sector.

"The substantial grant aims to strengthen the
institutions responsible for service delivery, and to thereby
increase the levels of water and sanitation services for all,
especially the poor," the embassy said in a statement sent to The
Jakarta Post .

The grant will also help Indonesia in its efforts to achieve
the Millennium Development Goals by the target date of 2015. --
JP