Summers to visit Jakarta

Summers to visit Jakarta

WASHINGTON (Reuters): U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers will visit India, Indonesia and Japan next week to survey Asia's economic landscape after the region has come through the thick of its worst financial crisis in half a century.

In a statement, the Treasury Department said Summers would visit Bombay, New Delhi, Bangalore and Jakarta for meetings with government officials and business leaders before attending a meeting of finance ministers from the Group of Seven top industrial nations in Tokyo on Jan. 22.

Summers was scheduled to address the Confederation of Indian Industry in Bombay on Jan. 17. On Jan. 20, he was due to speak at a luncheon in Jakarta jointly hosted by the Indonesian Economists Association and the American Chamber of Commerce.

He was expected to lay out a more detailed agenda for the trip during a speech he is due to give in Washington on Friday.