Yogyakarta to host CGI pre-meeting

Yogyakarta to host CGI pre-meeting

YOGYAKARTA: Around 90 foreign delegates of the Consultative
Group on Indonesia (CGI) will attend a preliminary session in
this tourist city on Jan. 19 before they begin convening their
12th meeting one day later in Bali.

The meeting was scheduled for Oct. 26 to Oct. 29 last year,
but was postponed until Jan. 20 through Jan. 22 in Bali following
the deadly bomb blasts in the resort island.

Yogyakarta administration secretary Bambang Susanto Priyohadi
said here on Thursday that the preliminary session would discuss
macro strategies to be included in the Bali meeting's agenda.

He said Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X would
be among those to address the preliminary meeting about good
governance.

On the sidelines of the session, at least 14 provincial
governors will be given a chance to have talks with the 90
delegates representing the 30 CGI member countries, Bambang
added. --JP