Population control realm for international effort

Population control realm for international effort

JAKARTA (JP): Cooperation in population control will showcase
the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)'s concept of cooperation between
developing countries with the assistance of developed countries.

State Minister of Population Haryono Suyono told reporters
yesterday that a meeting on population and development in Jakarta
in August will formalize the so-called South-South cooperation in
which industrialized countries of the North will be involved,
mainly in funding.

"The meeting will be a manifestation of the idea to promote
north-south partnership, which, over the last two years, has
become an interesting issue," Haryono said.

"Under the guidance of President Soeharto as NAM chairman, the
idea has been extended to donor countries ... and has received an
enthusiastic response from them," he added.

The NAM countries attending include Indonesia, Bangladesh,
Egypt, Zimbabwe, Morocco, Mexico, Tunisia, Thailand, Korea,
Colombia and Kenya or Nigeria. The United States, Australia,
Japan and France will join to represent the North. Among the
donor agencies are the UN Fund for Population Activities.

Haryono said other countries would be invited as observers to
encourage more countries to join in the scheme in the future.

The Jakarta meeting will be a prelude to the UN conference on
population and development in Cairo in September.

Haryono said the South-South and North-South scheme which will
be struck in Jakarta will also be presented in Cairo.

He said the scheme in no way intends to replace the activities
of the UN agencies on population problems.

On another matter, Haryono, who is Chairman of the National
Family Planning Board, said the National Family Day on June 29
will focused on in Sidoarjo regency, East Java.

The regency was chosen because it has developed rapidly from
what was once known as an under-developed region occupied by poor
farmers into a modern society, he said.

Sidoarjo people no longer work in the agricultural sector as
they have moved into the industrial sector.

"Some are lawyers...and their homes and environment, with very
few exceptions, have changed into a city," Haryono said." (pwn)