ICMI meeting to discuss GBHN

ICMI meeting to discuss GBHN

JAKARTA: The Association of Indonesian Moslem Intellectuals
(ICMI) will begin its three-day annual congress today, during
which some 400 leading members from across the country and abroad
will discuss suggestions for the 1998 establishment of the Broad
Guidelines of State Policies (GBHN).

Tamsil Linrung, the meeting committee chairman, said the
meeting is expected to discuss "strategic issues," rather than
technical ones, such as developing religiously devout, quality
human resources,

ICMI chairman B.J. Habibie will open the meeting at the Hotel
Cempaka.

Tamsil said also on the agenda is a discussion on the
organization's internal affairs, especially on ways to improve
the quality of members.

The association was founded on Dec. 7, 1990. It has 428
branches including 70 branches abroad, grouping more than 34
thousand members.

A number of cabinet ministers and other high rank officials
will address the meeting, including Minister of National
Development Planning/Chairman of the National Development
Planning Board Ginandjar Kartasasmita and Armed Forces Chief Gen.
Feisal Tanjung. (03)