JAKARTA: In observance of the country's 59th Independence Day

JAKARTA: In observance of the country's 59th Independence Day
on Aug. 17, the National Brotherhood Foundation is to organize a
national symposium on reform and Indonesia's future.

Chairman of the symposium's organizing committee Marzuki
Darusman said here on Tuesday the national meeting on Aug. 3 and
Aug. 4 would feature a number of well-known figures, experts and
intellectuals and high-ranking government officials, including
National Development Planning Board chairman Kwik Kian Gie,
Indonesia Military chief Gen. Endriartono Sutarto, sociologist
Daniel Dhakidae and political analyst Ikrar Nusa Bhakti.

The symposium will be held in line with the foundations's deep
concern over the stagnant reform agenda and social fragmentation
that threatens national unity, he said.

It is hoped that the two-day meeting will result in
recommendations for the future of the nation and the next
national leader, to continue with reform and strengthen national
unity. --JP