Sjahrir attends leadership forum

Tue, 10 Jun 2003, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

JAKARTA: Chairman of the New Indonesia Alliance Party (PIB)
Sjahrir will speak at the Asia-Inc. Forum on Leadership for
Southeast Asia in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.

The PIB presidential candidate will lead the discussion
entitled "Indonesia Approaching the 2004 Presidential Election"
at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Regional figures, including the
Philippine's Minister of Agriculture Luiz Lorenzo, Thailand's
former foreign minister Surin Pitsuwan and Daniel Wagner of the
Asian Development Bank will also attend.

Other issues to be discussed during the two-day event which
kicked off on Monday would include Muslims in Southeast Asia
post-September 11 and the Iraq War, the economic impact of SARS
and China-Southeast Asia relations.

Other participants from Indonesia are Jusuf Wanandi of the
Centre for Strategic and International Studies and marketing
expert Hermawan Kertajaya from MarkPlus & Co.

Sjahrir was scheduled to hold talks with Malaysian Prime
Minister Mahathir Mohamad after dinner on Monday. -- JP

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