Surjadi offers help to other cities

Surjadi offers help to other cities

The city administration is offering help to other Indonesian
cities wanting to forge sister-city relations with other cities
abroad.

Governor Surjadi Soedirdja made the remarks at City Hall on
Thursday when he received President Clinton's senior advisor Webb
Hubbell who is here to further improve relations between
Arkansas, the hometown of the United States President, and
Jakarta.

Surjadi said that Jakarta, which chairs the Indonesian Inter-
city Cooperation Body, is in a position to help other cities in
Indonesia which intend to cooperate with other cities in the
world.

Jakarta and Arkansas signed a sister-city agreement during the
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference in Seattle,
Washington, in 1993.

The sister-city alliance covers cultural, sports and
educational fields.

The University of Indonesia and Arkansas University, and
Arkansas hospital and Jakarta-based Harapan Kita hospital have
also signed cooperation agreements for the signing of the sister-
city alliance between the two cities of the world. (yns)