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Sat, 02/28/2009 - 20:07
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EMBASSY TO FACILITATE RI-CHINA BIZMEN`S COOPERATION

Beijing, Feb 28 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian Embassy in Beijing is ready to act as facilitator for regional administrations or businessmen from Indonesia who wish to explore opportunities for investment cooperation with Chinese companies, a spokesman said.

"We are ready to help anybody in Indonesia who wants to explore trade or investment cooperation opportunities with China," Iwan Amri, the embassy's head of economic affairs, said here Saturday.

He said one of the embassy's functions in Beijing was to be a facilitator between the two countries' business makers who were eager to explore various cooperation opportunities, especially in the economic field.

Many companies in China wanted to invest in Indonesia because cooperation in various economic sectors between the two countries had improved rapidly.

Chinese companies also wanted to make investment cooperation with regional administrations in Indonesia, for example with Maluku province, Amri said.

A few days ago, he said, a Chinese company expressed interest in opportunities to invest in various fields such as electricity, mining and fisheries in Maluku.

Therefore, Maluku Governor Karel Albert Ralahalu with Ambon Mayor M.J. Papilaja and a number of their staffers visited China recently to discuss investment opportunities with Chinese businessmen and officials.

Amri said the delegation from Maluku came to China to meet with officials of the company which had expressed readiness to invest in Maluku.

In the meeting it was disclosed that Maluku did need investors who wanted to invest in electricity and other sectors in the province.

"To follow up the meeting, an expert team from China will visit Maluku in the near future to obtain first hand information about real conditions in the field," Amri said.

He said the Indonesian Embassy in Beijing had become a mediator between Indonesian businessmen or regional administrations and China to cooperate in investment or economic sectors.

"We will be ready to help if state-owned companies or other national companies from Indonesia that want to make economic or investment contact with China," Amri said.***


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