RI, U.S. to promote cooperation

RI, U.S. to promote cooperation

JAKARTA (JP): Coordinating Minister for Industry and Trade
Hartarto (center), as well as A.R. Ramly (left), adviser, and
Tony Agus Ardie (right), chairman, of the Indonesia-U.S.
Committee, briefed last night businessmen on Indonesian-American
business meetings to be held in Washington, New York and Chicago
next September.

Hartarto and Ramly, who hosted the dinner reception at the
Grand Hyatt Hotel, called on the businessmen to take part in the
series of business forums which will be held to coincide with the
50th anniversary of Indonesia's independence.

The meetings will also launch a scholastic ambassador program,
aimed at educating 16 million American high school students about
Indonesia through the distribution of teaching guidelines on the
basic facts of Indonesia, to about 7,000 school teachers in the
U.S.

The teaching guidelines are being prepared in cooperation with
Scholastic Education Inc. of the U.S. and Alwi Dahlan, an
Indonesian mass communications scholar.(vin)