Ministry restructures foreign trade bodies

Ministry restructures foreign trade bodies

JAKARTA (JP): The Ministry of Trade will restructure its
Directorate General of Foreign Trade to cope with the growing
trend of globalized trade, Minister of Trade Satrio B. Joedono
said yesterday.

"We have been preparing the restructuring for a year by
training officials dealing with foreign trade to fill in the new
posts," he said after inaugurating 27 directors and other trade
officials at his office here yesterday.

He said he had proposed the restructuring plan to the State
Minister for Administrative Reforms and other related officials.

He explained that under the restructuring plan, the
directorate of industrial and mining product exports and the
directorate of agricultural and forestry product exports will be
united into the directorate of exports.

The directorate of foreign trade relations will be split into
three directorates -- one dealing with bilateral trade, another
with regional trade and the other with multilateral trade.

He said the directorate of imports and the directorate of
quality control will be maintained.

"By restructuring the directorate general of foreign trade, we
will be capable of handling the growing volume in foreign trade,"
Joedono commented.

The officials installed yesterday included Riyanto B.
Yosokumoro, who was appointed director of imports, Rosediana
Soeharto as director for standardization and quality control and
Muchtar as director for exports of industrial and mining
products.

Neneng was installed as director for the development of trade
facilities, Anwar Pasinringi as director for the domestic
distribution of industrial and mining products and Rasben
Simanullang as director for trade development.

Joedono also appointed Gofar Bain, Taufik Abbas, Hamonangan
Siregar and Gusmardi Bustani as expert assistants to the Minister
of Trade.(kod)