Western Australia names new envoy

Western Australia names new envoy

JAKARTA: The state government of Western Australia has appointed
Trevor Boughton as the new regional director for its
representative office in Indonesia. He is taking over the
position from Ross Taylor.

A press release, made available to The Jakarta Post on
Wednesday, said that Boughton would bridge the relationship
between Indonesian and Australian businesspeople. Upon assuming
the new post, he will soon meet Indonesians whose businesses are
related or linked to the Western Australian market as well as
assist Western Australian clients in entering the Indonesian
market.

"On top of that, he will also be looking after the East Java-
Western Australia sister state or province relationship, which
has now entered its 14th year," the release said.

Boughton is very familiar with Indonesia and speaks Bahasa
Indonesia fluently. He holds an academic diploma in Indonesian
language and culture from Satya Wacana University in Salatiga,
Central Java. His formal education was in Agricultural Science at
the University of Western Australia.

Before taking up his current position, he held several other
senior posts related to agriculture. He worked with Agriculture
Western Australia (AGWEST) until 1996, in which he did a lot of
research and developed marketing support for Western Australian
Agriculture and Food products in Indonesia. --JP