Medan to host NRG4SD meeting

Medan to host NRG4SD meeting

MEDAN, North Sumatra: United Nations and North Sumatra
provincial government officials held a meeting on Tuesday in
Medan, to discuss preparations for a huge forum called the
Network of Regional Governments for Sustainable Development
(NRG4SD), slated to be held in the province between Feb. 14 and
Feb. 17 next year.

The forum will be attended by over 2,000 participants, some
1,400 of them from overseas, including governors, academicians
and businessmen.

The participants will discuss how to improve education, small
and medium scale business, fisheries and other fields in
developed and developing countries.

North Sumatra Governor Rizal Nurdin said that his
administration had earmarked Rp 5 billion (US$531,914) for the
forum. The forum will the fifth after the first forum held in
Johannesburg, South Africa two years ago. -- JP