RI to host meeting for Malay writers

RI to host meeting for Malay writers

JAKARTA: Indonesia will host a conference of Malay writers in
December, the organizing committee announced here on Thursday.

The conference, to be held in the West Sumatran capital of
Padang, will bring together some 800 writers from Indonesia,
Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei.

To be held alongside the 1997 conference of Indonesian
writers, the Malay writers' conference will discuss the
development of literature in the participating countries.

An organizing committee official, A.A. Navis, said the
conference would be titled Malay Literature in the Technological
Development of the 21st Century.

Navis, one of Indonesia's most prominent writers, said the
conference would be a forum for writers from the three countries
to exchange ideas on literary matters.

It is also intended to strengthen the ties among writers in
the three neighboring countries, he added. (09)