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Wed, 02/25/2009 - 22:59
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RI'S NEW ENVOY TO SLOVAKIA PRIORITIZES ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Jakarta, Feb 25 (ANTARA)- Indonesia's Ambassador-designate to Slovakia Harsha Joesoef said he would give priority to economic coperation with Slovakia as a contribution to national economic development.
"My target in the short term is to improve business transaction processes and put several MoUs into effect like that on palm oil export to Slovakia," the businessman-turned diplomat told ANTARA here Wednesday.
After a 24-year career during which he established and ran RPX Group, a one-stop logistics company of international standards, Harsha Joesoef will assume his new job as an ambassador on March 8, 2009.
He said among the first things he would do as ambassador to Slovakia was calling on Indonesian entrepreneurs to take part in developing economic coooperation between the two countries, especially in the face of the current global economic crisis.
Harsha said among the first major activities he would be involved in to promote economic cooperation with Slovakia was the second Indonesia-Slovak Joint Commission on Economy this year in Slovakia in which businesspeople from the two countries would have an opportunity to discuss and explore business cooperation possibilities.
"We will also look at the existing trade potentials in retail businesses like garments and footwear for export to Slovakia," said Harsha who was among 15 Indonesian ambassadors intstalled by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on January 30, 2009.
In addition, Harsha would also make efforts to enhance the good relations between Indonesia and Slovakia in other sectors including tourism, techonology and sciences as well socio-culture besides maintaining the national image and international confidence in Indonesia.
The ambassador said he would likewise strengthen protection for Indonesian nationals, provide them with better services and legal assistance besides maintaining all properties belonging to the Indonesian state in the country of some 5.5 million people.
He also underscored the importance of exchange of visits by the two countries' legislators as a way to exercice second-track diplomacy in the framework of strengthening bilateral ties and people-to-people contacts.
Meanwhile, Slovak Ambassador to Indonesia Peter Holasek said the trade volume between the two countries was quite low when he was stationed in Jakarta five years ago.
"It was so probably because both countries concentrated on trade in only a few items. But it was my task to expand the bilateral relations, especially in the economic field," he said, adding that the trade volume between the two countries had now increased 12-fold.
He also said the two countries should continue defining ways to increase their economic cooperation by working hard, especially in the face of the current global economic crisis.
He said the two countries were now complementary to each other in the economic field as Indonesia exported agricultural products like palm oil as well as garments, footwear and electronics to Slovakia which offered military equipment, alternative energy, chemicals and pharmaceutical products to Indonesia.
"You produce what we need, and we produce what you need. It is a good chance for cooperation," said Holasek whose tenure in Indonesia would expire soon after serving as ambassador to Indonesia for five years.
"My target in the short term is to improve business transaction processes and put several MoUs into effect like that on palm oil export to Slovakia," the businessman-turned diplomat told ANTARA here Wednesday.
After a 24-year career during which he established and ran RPX Group, a one-stop logistics company of international standards, Harsha Joesoef will assume his new job as an ambassador on March 8, 2009.
He said among the first things he would do as ambassador to Slovakia was calling on Indonesian entrepreneurs to take part in developing economic coooperation between the two countries, especially in the face of the current global economic crisis.
Harsha said among the first major activities he would be involved in to promote economic cooperation with Slovakia was the second Indonesia-Slovak Joint Commission on Economy this year in Slovakia in which businesspeople from the two countries would have an opportunity to discuss and explore business cooperation possibilities.
"We will also look at the existing trade potentials in retail businesses like garments and footwear for export to Slovakia," said Harsha who was among 15 Indonesian ambassadors intstalled by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on January 30, 2009.
In addition, Harsha would also make efforts to enhance the good relations between Indonesia and Slovakia in other sectors including tourism, techonology and sciences as well socio-culture besides maintaining the national image and international confidence in Indonesia.
The ambassador said he would likewise strengthen protection for Indonesian nationals, provide them with better services and legal assistance besides maintaining all properties belonging to the Indonesian state in the country of some 5.5 million people.
He also underscored the importance of exchange of visits by the two countries' legislators as a way to exercice second-track diplomacy in the framework of strengthening bilateral ties and people-to-people contacts.
Meanwhile, Slovak Ambassador to Indonesia Peter Holasek said the trade volume between the two countries was quite low when he was stationed in Jakarta five years ago.
"It was so probably because both countries concentrated on trade in only a few items. But it was my task to expand the bilateral relations, especially in the economic field," he said, adding that the trade volume between the two countries had now increased 12-fold.
He also said the two countries should continue defining ways to increase their economic cooperation by working hard, especially in the face of the current global economic crisis.
He said the two countries were now complementary to each other in the economic field as Indonesia exported agricultural products like palm oil as well as garments, footwear and electronics to Slovakia which offered military equipment, alternative energy, chemicals and pharmaceutical products to Indonesia.
"You produce what we need, and we produce what you need. It is a good chance for cooperation," said Holasek whose tenure in Indonesia would expire soon after serving as ambassador to Indonesia for five years.
