RI offers teachers to Brunei

RI offers teachers to Brunei

JAKARTA: Indonesia, which has a large number of professional
teachers, is offering Brunei some of its teachers not only for
elementary schools but also for universities.

"The offer proves that Indonesia is able to not only send
housemaids, but is also ready to export professional teachers,"
State Minister for Communications and Information Syamsul Mu'arif
said on Monday.

The government, Syamsul said, would not only send personnel to
work in the informal sector, but also the formal sector like
teaching.

The minister made the remarks at his office when he received a
six-member delegation from Brunei's information ministry.

During their stay in Indonesia, the delegation is scheduled to
visits several offices, including the National Information
Institute, television station Metro TV, newspaper Media Indonesia
and the official news agency Antara.

They will also visit small industrial centers in Bandung, West
Java; Indonesia in Miniature Park in East Jakarta and Sea World
at the Ancol recreational site in North Jakarta. -- Antara

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Haj dormitories in Saudi Arabia

SURABAYA: Director General of Islam Affairs and Haj Pilgrimage
Taufik Kamil said here on Monday that the government planned to
build two haj dormitories to temporarily accommodate haj pilgrims
from Indonesia in Saudi Arabia.

"We've prepared the plan and established a consortium in
charge of studying the possibility of building the facilities and
of processing licensing from the Saudi government," he said
during a visit to the haj dormitory in Surabaya.

Taufik, who is also chairman of the central committee for the
haj pilgrimage, said that the two dormitories will be built in
Mispala and Ummul Quro, respectively 900 meters and 1,000 meters
away from the Masjidil Haram Mosque.

The two dormitories were designed to have a combined capacity
for 150,000 people, he said.

"The establishment of the dormitories in Saudi Arabia is
expected to help contain complaints about accommodation," he
said.

Taufik explained that the study had been conducted by a Saudi
conglomerate specializing in the property business with the help
of national businessman Fadel Muhammad, who acted as middleman.

Taufik said that the dormitories would be equipped with a
hall, a clinic, a mosque and a supermarket. -- Antara