Indonesian firms invited to attend APEC expo

Indonesian firms invited to attend APEC expo

JAKARTA (JP): The South Korean government is formally inviting
Indonesian companies to attend the first technology exhibition of
the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) to be held in the
Korean city of Taejon in early May next year.

B.S. Park, a manager of the Jakarta office of the Korea Trade
Center, said yesterday that Indonesian companies will not only
have the opportunity to show their technology capability but also
to learn of the technology development of the other 17 APEC
members at the exhibition.

A seminar on technology will be held in tandem with the
exhibition, which will be opened from May 22 to May 27 at Taejon,
some 200 kilometers from Seoul.

"Participants will be also given the opportunity to carry out
business negotiations during the exhibition," Park said, adding
that participants could be those offering or seeking
technologies.

He said that all applications for participation in the
exhibition as well as business negotiations must be submitted to
the organizer before the end of January.

Park said that an exhibitor will be allotted an exhibition
booth of nine square meters free of charge, including those
exhibiting domestic telephone services and electricity.

He said that participants will be exempted from paying the
costs of the delivery of their equipment from Seoul to Taejon if
the equipment is transported by airplane.

The organizer will designate the exhibition site as a bonded
zone and the entry of goods should, therefore, be approved by the
customs office as "temporary entry declaration" cargo upon
arrival to the exhibition site. (hen)