Lengkong wins Japanese trade award

Lengkong wins Japanese trade award

TOKYO (AFP): Japan's Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama awarded this year's annual trade awards yesterday to five businessmen including Rudy Lengkong, the chief of Indonesia's National Agency for Export Development (NAFED).

Other four businessmen from the United States, France and Japan.

Companies from the United States, France and Kenya were also among the recipients of this year's corporate awards by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, otherwise dominated by Japanese companies.

The American recipient of the prime minister's award was Joseph Gorman, the 57-year-old chairman of TRW Inc., a leading manufacturer of automotive parts in the United States. Laurent Boix-Vives, the 68-year-old chairman of French sporting goods group Rossignol, also won the award, along with Rudy Lengkong, the 59-year-old chairman of Indonesia's National Agency for Export Development.

The two other winners were IBM Japan Ltd. president Takeo Shiina, 65, and Kazuo Harada, the 64-year-old president of Yamamoto and Co. Ltd. who also chairs the Japan Machine Tool Importers Association.

Foreign companies among the 13 recipients of the corporate awards included: Chrysler Japan Sales Ltd. and Molex Japan Co. Ltd., both of the United States. France's Rhone-Poulenc Japan Ltd. also received the corporate award, along with Kenya Nut Co. Ltd.