Sinungan reelected AP3I chairman

J.A. Sinungan, a commissioner of the PT Inti Fashindo International retail outlet, was re-elected chairman of Indonesian Retailers Association (AP3I) at the end of a one-day congress yesterday.

Six of the seven-member electoral board voted for Sinungan and the other for Ilham Asid, an executive of the state-owned Sarinah department store.

The 52-year-old Sinungan told The Jakarta Post that he plans to consolidate AP3I during his second term of office from 1994 to 1998.

"We're going to set up more chapters throughout the country," he said.

Suryadarma Ali, an executive of Hero supermarket, was elected secretary of AP3I. Retail baron, Hari Darmawan, who controls Matahari department stores nationwide, will head the department store committee of AP3I.

The congress has also agreed to set up an honorary board chaired by Agung Laksono, the president of ANteve station.

Other members of the board include Bambang Soeharto, a member of the National Commission of Human Rights and an executive of Hero supermarket chain, and Rosita Noer, a chairwoman of a public relation firm. (09)