Tito's son named Croatian envoy to RI

Tito's son named Croatian envoy to RI

JAKARTA: A generation ago the leaders of Indonesia and
Yugoslavia helped set up the Non-Aligned Movement -- a grouping
meant to offer a middle path during the Cold War.

Now, in an echo of times gone by, the son of Yugoslavia's late
strongman Josip Broz Tito has become Croatia's ambassador to an
Indonesian government led by the daughter of its founder,
Sukarno.

Aleksandar Broz, a former vice president of Croatia's state-
owned oil company, arrived in Jakarta over the weekend after
being named to the post late last year.

"I'm not sure what role the non-aligned connection can play
nowadays, it certainly cannot hurt relations", Broz said on
Monday.

Tito and president Soekarno were instrumental in setting up
the Non-Aligned Movement at the height of the Cold War in the
late 1950s. --AP