Jakarta expects to boost exports

Jakarta expects to boost exports

JAKARTA: The city administration expects to boost its exports
through Tanjung Priok sea port and Soekarno-Hatta International
Airport to Japan, Middle Eastern countries and the United States,
an official has said.

Economic assistant to city secretary Rusdi Yusuf said on
Friday that the administration hosted a meeting on Thursday to
discuss export prospects at the Hilton Hotel here.

Rusdi said chiefs of the International Trade Promotion Centers
(ITPC), including Jasdi Darwis of ITPC Dubai, Syamsul Siregar of
ITPC Osaka, and Lili Saroyo Danusatro of ITPC Los Angeles, were
invited to hold a discussion with 80 Jakarta businessmen about
export prospects.

He said Japan needed marine products, handicrafts and rattan
products, Middle Eastern countries needed clothes, wood and
plywood while the United States was interested in agricultural
products.--JP