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51357
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 14:12
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RI COMMITTED TO SOUTH-SOUTH TECHNICAL COOPERATION
Jakarta, March 19 (ANTARA) - Indonesia is committed to fostering technical cooperation among developing countries (South-South) to anticipate the possibility of assistance from the developed countries reaching a saturation point, a foreign ministry official said.
Developing countries were at risk of being marginalized if the gap between them and the developed nations got wider, Andri Hadi, the foreign ministry's director general for public information and diplomacy, said when opening a workshop on South-South technical cooperation here on Thursday.
Therefore, Hadi said, South-South cooperation needed to be intensified so that developing countries could help each other to become self-reliant and accelerate development.
Indonesia was capable of providing technical assistance to developing countries, including organizing trainings with the cooperation of advanced countries, he said.
The workshop was organized by the Indonesian government, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and the Non-Aligned Movement Center for South-South Technical Cooperation (NAM CSSTC). Its purpose was to present Indonesia's experiences in organizing trainings and sending experts to other developing countries.
From 2003 to 2007, Indonesia had carried out training programs in various fields for 727 participants from 51 developing countries in Asia, the Middle East, the Pacific and Africa.
During the 1994-2007 period, Indonesia had sent 50 experts to help train people in developing countries such as Papua New Guinea, Madagascar, Nepal, Tanzania, Fiji, Cambodia, the Philippines and Thailand.
Meanwhile, Toru Maeda of the Japanese embassy in Jakarta said Japan, which had a lot of and long experiences in technical cooperation, was ready to share experiences with Indonesia.
Developing countries were at risk of being marginalized if the gap between them and the developed nations got wider, Andri Hadi, the foreign ministry's director general for public information and diplomacy, said when opening a workshop on South-South technical cooperation here on Thursday.
Therefore, Hadi said, South-South cooperation needed to be intensified so that developing countries could help each other to become self-reliant and accelerate development.
Indonesia was capable of providing technical assistance to developing countries, including organizing trainings with the cooperation of advanced countries, he said.
The workshop was organized by the Indonesian government, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and the Non-Aligned Movement Center for South-South Technical Cooperation (NAM CSSTC). Its purpose was to present Indonesia's experiences in organizing trainings and sending experts to other developing countries.
From 2003 to 2007, Indonesia had carried out training programs in various fields for 727 participants from 51 developing countries in Asia, the Middle East, the Pacific and Africa.
During the 1994-2007 period, Indonesia had sent 50 experts to help train people in developing countries such as Papua New Guinea, Madagascar, Nepal, Tanzania, Fiji, Cambodia, the Philippines and Thailand.
Meanwhile, Toru Maeda of the Japanese embassy in Jakarta said Japan, which had a lot of and long experiences in technical cooperation, was ready to share experiences with Indonesia.
