RI, Australia set ties

JAKARTA (JP): Australia and Indonesia are developing cooperation in a widening range of industrial and technological areas.

Australian Charge d'Affairs Tony Hely said here yesterday that Indonesia's Agency for Strategic Industries (BPIS) has formed a "framework agreement" to cooperate in aerospace technology with the Australian Department of Defense.

Hely was speaking in a seminar entitled "Perspectives for the Future: Aerospace Industry Joint Venture Development Management, Maintenance and Training." (hdj)