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DUTCH FOREIGN MINISTER TO VISIT RI FIVE DAYS
Jakarta, Jan 10 (ANTARA)- Dutch Foreign Minister Maxim Verhagen is scheduled to visit Indonesia from January 13 to 17, 2009 to promote bilateral ties in several fields and discuss the latest situation in the Middle East, the foreign ministry said.
During his stay in Jakarta, Verhagen would meet with his Indonesian counterpart, Hassan Wirajuda, and pay a courtesy call to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
With Wirajuda, the Dutch foreign minister would discuss several bilateral and regional issues, among other things, cooperation in legal affairs, climate change, development of relations between ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) and the European Union (EU), and international issues including the Middle East.
Verhagen is also slated to hold talks with Law and Human Rights Minister Andi Matalatta before visiting Yogyakarta on January 15.
During his stay in Yogyakarta, Verhagen would hold talks with Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X, observe two primary schools namely SDN 1 and 4 in Kalikebo village, Klaten district.
Both schools which were seriously damaged by a devastating earthquake in May 2006, had been renovated by the country's foreign ministry.
Indonesian-Dutch relations in the political and economic fields continuosly impoved in recent years, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
On economic cooperations, the two countries' trade value on January-September 2008 period reached US$3.31 billion, or up by 52.5 percent compared to the same period of the previous year amounting to US$2.17 billion.
In 2007, the Netherlands was the tenth largest investor in Indonesia with the total value at US$147.2 million which involved 27 projects, the statement said.
In addition, the Dutch government also provided humanitarian and development aid worth US$20 million to Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) province and Nias district Island in North Sumatra province which were severely damaged by an earthquake and tsunami on December 26, 2004.
The Dutch government had also promised another 141 million euro for the reconstruction process in the two provinces.
The statement said further that the Dutch government extended other financial aid worth US$2.5 million for reconstruction process of damaged public facilities in Yogyakarta which was hit by an earthquake and 500,000 euro for the rehabilitation of 10 schools in Klaten and Bantul districts in Yogyakarta province and another one million euro for flood victims in Jakarta.
Indonesia also received Dutch government assistance amounting to 20 million US dollars through the World Bank to improve basic education, the statement added.
During his stay in Jakarta, Verhagen would meet with his Indonesian counterpart, Hassan Wirajuda, and pay a courtesy call to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
With Wirajuda, the Dutch foreign minister would discuss several bilateral and regional issues, among other things, cooperation in legal affairs, climate change, development of relations between ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) and the European Union (EU), and international issues including the Middle East.
Verhagen is also slated to hold talks with Law and Human Rights Minister Andi Matalatta before visiting Yogyakarta on January 15.
During his stay in Yogyakarta, Verhagen would hold talks with Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X, observe two primary schools namely SDN 1 and 4 in Kalikebo village, Klaten district.
Both schools which were seriously damaged by a devastating earthquake in May 2006, had been renovated by the country's foreign ministry.
Indonesian-Dutch relations in the political and economic fields continuosly impoved in recent years, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
On economic cooperations, the two countries' trade value on January-September 2008 period reached US$3.31 billion, or up by 52.5 percent compared to the same period of the previous year amounting to US$2.17 billion.
In 2007, the Netherlands was the tenth largest investor in Indonesia with the total value at US$147.2 million which involved 27 projects, the statement said.
In addition, the Dutch government also provided humanitarian and development aid worth US$20 million to Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) province and Nias district Island in North Sumatra province which were severely damaged by an earthquake and tsunami on December 26, 2004.
The Dutch government had also promised another 141 million euro for the reconstruction process in the two provinces.
The statement said further that the Dutch government extended other financial aid worth US$2.5 million for reconstruction process of damaged public facilities in Yogyakarta which was hit by an earthquake and 500,000 euro for the rehabilitation of 10 schools in Klaten and Bantul districts in Yogyakarta province and another one million euro for flood victims in Jakarta.
Indonesia also received Dutch government assistance amounting to 20 million US dollars through the World Bank to improve basic education, the statement added.
