Outgoing Hamzah to welcome Kalla

Outgoing Hamzah to welcome Kalla

JAKARTA: One day before leaving office Vice President Hamzah
Haz will introduce his elected successor Jusuf Kalla to officials
at the vice presidential secretariat.

Hamzah's aide Lukman Hakim said on Monday the outgoing Vice
President had invited Kalla to his office on Tuesday as a
goodwill gesture toward the next government.

Vice presidential secretariat's head of media relations Umar
Ramli said there were approximately 300 officials and employees
at the secretariat.

Hamzah had earlier this week bade farewell to the secretariat
officials, praising them for their services. He had just arrived
from a minor pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

President-elect Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and vice president-
elect Kalla will be inaugurated on Wednesday during a People's
Consultative Assembly plenary session. -- JP