RI to host APCA meeting

RI to host APCA meeting

JAKARTA (Antara): Indonesia will host the fourth annual
conference of the Asia-Pacific Counter-Purchase Association
(APCA) scheduled to be held here from Oct. 22 to Oct. 24.

Chairman of the conference's organizing committee, Hasjim S.
Djojohadikusumo, said Thursday that the conference would be
attended by 175 participants, 125 of whom would be from foreign
countries.

President Soeharto was slated to open the conference at the
State Palace on Oct. 22, he said.

According to Djojohadikusumo, chairman of PT Tirtamas
Comexindo, the conference will discuss counter-purchase as an
increasingly popular trend in trading in the globalization era.

The topics to be discussed will include Indonesia's and other
ASEAN countries' experiences in counter-purchase trading, the
role of banks in facilitating trade, and the challenges and
strategies for developing countries in international trade
development, said Djojohadikusumo, a businessman who has
extensive experience in counter-purchase trading and who will be
a speaker at the conference.