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Tue, 08/12/2008 - 17:34
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RI TO INVITE FOREIGN VIPs TO ATTEND NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATIONS
Jakarta, Aug 12 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will invite a number of foreign dignitaries to attend celebrations of the Indonesian Independence Day which falls on August 17.
Presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal said at a press conference at the presidential office, here on Tuesday the invitations were an effort to expand Indonesia's networks in other countries.
Indonesia had friends in Asia, Africa and the West and wanted to expand the network through the program to let them gain first-hand impressions of Indonesia, he said.
Some 32 dignitaries from 27 countries were expected to arrive in Jakarta, on August 13, 2008, and they would stay until August 19, 2008.
"During their stay here, they will attend a series of activities to celebrate Independence Day, including the President's State-of-the-Nation Address in the House of Representatives (DPR)/MPR and a state banquet in the evening of August 17," he said.
The foreign guests would also visit Aceh before returning to their respective countries.
They would include Dr Pedro Deon Diederichs, head of the journalism department of South Africa, Dr Saleh bin Hamad Al-Suhaibani, a Saudi academic, Dr Ann Marie Murphy, an academic of Seton Hall University in the USA, Tim Lindsey, a professor of Melbourne University, and Hordern Myer, vice president director of Myer Foundation of Australia.
Indonesia had also invited Habib Zarbaliyevi of Azerbaijan, Jesse Kuijper of Kinnarps Office furniture BV of the Netherlands, Monika Sie Dhian Ho, director of Wiardi Beckman Foundation, Pg. Dato Paduka Hj. Jaludin Pg Mohd Limbang, former Brunei ambassador to Indonesia, Marek Hrubec, a Czech academic, Dr.Alessandra Lopez y Royo, an academic from the UK, Prof Masakatsu Tozu, a Japanese academic, Phantong Phommahaxay, a former Lao ambassador, Mikhail Kouritsyin and Dr Lyudmila N Demidyuk from Russia, and others from Myanmar, Pakistan, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Vietnam, and Jordan.
Presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal said at a press conference at the presidential office, here on Tuesday the invitations were an effort to expand Indonesia's networks in other countries.
Indonesia had friends in Asia, Africa and the West and wanted to expand the network through the program to let them gain first-hand impressions of Indonesia, he said.
Some 32 dignitaries from 27 countries were expected to arrive in Jakarta, on August 13, 2008, and they would stay until August 19, 2008.
"During their stay here, they will attend a series of activities to celebrate Independence Day, including the President's State-of-the-Nation Address in the House of Representatives (DPR)/MPR and a state banquet in the evening of August 17," he said.
The foreign guests would also visit Aceh before returning to their respective countries.
They would include Dr Pedro Deon Diederichs, head of the journalism department of South Africa, Dr Saleh bin Hamad Al-Suhaibani, a Saudi academic, Dr Ann Marie Murphy, an academic of Seton Hall University in the USA, Tim Lindsey, a professor of Melbourne University, and Hordern Myer, vice president director of Myer Foundation of Australia.
Indonesia had also invited Habib Zarbaliyevi of Azerbaijan, Jesse Kuijper of Kinnarps Office furniture BV of the Netherlands, Monika Sie Dhian Ho, director of Wiardi Beckman Foundation, Pg. Dato Paduka Hj. Jaludin Pg Mohd Limbang, former Brunei ambassador to Indonesia, Marek Hrubec, a Czech academic, Dr.Alessandra Lopez y Royo, an academic from the UK, Prof Masakatsu Tozu, a Japanese academic, Phantong Phommahaxay, a former Lao ambassador, Mikhail Kouritsyin and Dr Lyudmila N Demidyuk from Russia, and others from Myanmar, Pakistan, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Vietnam, and Jordan.
