Research is for the market

Research is for the market

JAKARTA: Research in Indonesia should be commercially-oriented
so that both R&D and business institutions can support each
other, State Minister for Research and Technology Hatta Radjasa
says.

R&D institutions should support economic development and
benefit people in general, Hatta said when attending the
inauguration of Kusmayanto Kadimanad, the new rector of the
Bandung Institute of Technology.

Hatta said that Indonesia was in dire need of research in the
fields of agriculture, technology, energy and aerospace.

"In fact it is one of the 11-point top priority programs that
the government is focusing on until 2004," Hatta said.

The minister called on local scientists to speed up their
research programs to help the economy recover.--Antara