Mega to attend ASEAN summit

JAKARTA: President Megawati Soekarnoputri will attend an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Brunei Darussalam next month, State/Cabinet Secretary Bambang Kesowo said on Thursday.

Megawati will leave Jakarta for Brunei on Nov. 4 and return on Nov. 6, Bambang said.

He also explained that a number of distinguished guests would visit Indonesia, namely Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji from Nov. 7 to 10, Vietnamese Prime Minister Van Phan Kai from Nov. 10 to 12 and Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from Nov. 12 to 13. --JP