RI named host of APPF meeting

RI named host of APPF meeting

JAKARTA: Indonesia has been asked by the president of the Asia
Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF), Yasuhiro Nakasone, to host
the APPF meeting in 2005, Deputy House Speaker A.M. Fatwa said on
Tuesday.

Fatwa, a leader of the National Mandate Party (PAN), said that
the request was personally aired by the former Japanese prime
minister at a meeting with the Indonesian delegation in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, on Tuesday.

Fatwa made the statement after returning home from Kuala
Lumpur, from where he had headed a delegation of Indonesian
legislators to the APPF meeting from Jan. 13 through Jan. 15.

He said that during the meeting with Japan's former leader the
Indonesian legislators had asked the Japanese government to lift
a travel warning advising its nationals not to visit Indonesia.

The legislators also asked the Japanese government to tell its
businesspeople not to pull their investments out of Indonesia.

Fatwa said he returned home sooner than the delegation members
to have another meeting with government officials. --JP