Thaksin meets Thai students in Jakarta

Thaksin meets Thai students in Jakarta

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra briefly met with a group of Thai Muslim students studying in Indonesia upon his arrival at the Hotel Mulia Senayan in Jakarta on Thursday night.

According to Kriang Sat, 26, a student from southern Thailand, Thaksin told the students to study hard and not to worry about the situation in their southern Thai homeland, which has been rocked by conflict in recent years.

"He told us to study not only religious subjects but other subjects as well, and to come home as soon as we finished our studies to help build up our country," said Ahmad, 27, who is studying at the State Islamic University (UIN) in Ciputat.

Asked by reporters about the latest situation in the Thai south, Thaksin said: "It is getting better and better." --JP