RI, Singapore to have conference

RI, Singapore to have conference

JAKARTA: A three-day bilateral conference on Indonesia-Singapore
relations will be held here starting Friday.

Speakers at the conference will include former minister of
foreign affairs Ali Alatas, former defense minister Juwono
Sudarsono, ambassador Barry Desker of the Institute of Defense
and Strategic Studies, Jusuf Wanandi of the Centre for Strategic
and International Studies (CSIS), Simon Tay of the Singapore
Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) and Irene Ng, a
parliament member from Singapore.

The conference, that will look at the impact of the new global
and regional environment toward the relations between the two
countries, is jointly organized by SIIA and CSIS.

The first day of the conference will be held at the CSIS in
Central Jakarta and the rest at the Dharmawangsa Hotel, southern
Jakarta. --JP