Trade expo in Darwin

Trade expo in Darwin

JAKARTA (JP): West Nusa Tenggara will send a delegation of 20
businesspeople to Australia next week to take part in Darwin
Expo, an executive said Saturday.

The chairman of the province's branch of the Indonesian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry, M. Anwar, said in Mataram that
the delegates would show locally-made handicrafts and
agricultural products at the expo, which would last from June 2
to June 28.

Anwar was quoted by Antara as saying that besides joining the
expo, the delegates would also take part in a seminar and
dialogue with their Australian counterparts to promote investment
in West Nusa Tenggara.

He said 100 foreign investors currently operated in the
province with investments of Rp 1.65 trillion (US$675.40 million)
under a domestic investment scheme and $1.4 billion under a
foreign investment scheme. Forty percent of the investments went
to the tourism industry, 20 percent to fishery, particularly in
pearl development, and the remainder to husbandry and mining.
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