Norway-RI to hold technology seminar

Norway-RI to hold technology seminar

JAKARTA (JP): A 140-member delegation of governmental
officials, scientists and businesspeople from Norway is expected
to arrive here next week to hold discussions with their
Indonesian counterparts in a seminar on technology.

Norwegian Ambassador Jan Wessel Hegg announced yesterday that
the three-day seminar from Oct. 15 to Oct. 17 will be held at the
Agency for Technology Assessment and Application (BPPT) building
under the co-sponsorship of the agency and the Norwegian Research
Council.

The "Norwegian-Indonesian Science and Technology for
Sustainable Development" seminar will be jointly opened by State
Minister of Research and Technology B.J. Habibie and Norway's
Minister of Trade and Energy Jens Stoltenberg, who will lead the
delegation.

Hegg said that the delegation's visit is a follow-up to the
official visit by Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland
to Indonesia in September last year.

"In her conversation with President Soeharto, both leaders
agreed that it would be natural for Norway and Indonesia to work
together in the cause for sustainable development," Hegg said.

The seminar will focus on technologies for oil and gas, marine
and maritime, hydropower, environment, aquaculture and
information, he said.

Trulyanti Sutrasno, a deputy chairwoman at BPPT, will chair
the seminar's steering committee together with the ambassador.
Trulyanti said that after the seminar the Norwegian delegation
will tour several companies in Indonesia, including the state-
owned PAL shipbuilding firm in Surabaya, the state-owned aircraft
manufacturer PT Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) in
Bandung.

Stoltenberg is also scheduled to meet with Minister of Mines
and Energy I.B. Sudjana, Minister of Industry and Trade Tunky
Ariwibowo, top executives from state-owned oil company Pertamina
and members of the National Commission on Human Rights. (jsk)