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57016
Thu, 04/23/2009 - 12:33
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RI, SWEDEN HOLDING DIALOG ON RIGHTS ISSUES
London, April 23 (ANTARA) - The governments of Indonesia and Sweden are holding a two-day dialog on human rights issues, April 23-24, 2009 in the Swedish capital of Stockholm.
Contacted from here by phone on Wednesday, Indonesian Embassy official for Education, Social, and Cultural affairs (Pensosbud) in Stockholm Dody Sembodo Kusumonegoro said Indonesia was represented by various institutions in the Human Rights dialog.
According to Dody, present in the dialog were representatives from government institution, National Commission on Child Protection, Ombudsman Indonesia, and Disabled Children Rehabilitation Center.
While Swedish government was represented by the country's members of Parliament, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI) of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, and Handisam - Swedish Agency for Disability Policy Coordination.
Such a dialog between Indonesia and Sweden was launched for the first time by Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda and his Swedish counterpart Carl Bildt in Jakarta in April last year.
The first dialog in Jakarta last year produced among others the implementation of concrete capacity building cooperation in Human Rights, improvement of facility for disabled children and juvenile delinquency, and the provision of scholarships for Indonesian students to study on humanitarian law in Sweden.
Dody said that in the second dialog this time in Stockholm, the participants would discuss various issues related to capacity building for civil society especially about the improvement of the rights of disabled children, the management of legal-related problematic children, and other Human Rights issues.
The delegates attending the dialog in Stockholm would also be given opportunity to visit the National Board of Institutional Care and problematic youth management center in Uppsala.
Dody said bilateral relations between Indonesia and Sweden had improved significantly during the past two years.
He added that the Human Rights dialog, in which the participants exchanged views and experiences, was one of various cooperations between the two countries in a bid to support Human Rights development.
Contacted from here by phone on Wednesday, Indonesian Embassy official for Education, Social, and Cultural affairs (Pensosbud) in Stockholm Dody Sembodo Kusumonegoro said Indonesia was represented by various institutions in the Human Rights dialog.
According to Dody, present in the dialog were representatives from government institution, National Commission on Child Protection, Ombudsman Indonesia, and Disabled Children Rehabilitation Center.
While Swedish government was represented by the country's members of Parliament, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI) of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, and Handisam - Swedish Agency for Disability Policy Coordination.
Such a dialog between Indonesia and Sweden was launched for the first time by Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda and his Swedish counterpart Carl Bildt in Jakarta in April last year.
The first dialog in Jakarta last year produced among others the implementation of concrete capacity building cooperation in Human Rights, improvement of facility for disabled children and juvenile delinquency, and the provision of scholarships for Indonesian students to study on humanitarian law in Sweden.
Dody said that in the second dialog this time in Stockholm, the participants would discuss various issues related to capacity building for civil society especially about the improvement of the rights of disabled children, the management of legal-related problematic children, and other Human Rights issues.
The delegates attending the dialog in Stockholm would also be given opportunity to visit the National Board of Institutional Care and problematic youth management center in Uppsala.
Dody said bilateral relations between Indonesia and Sweden had improved significantly during the past two years.
He added that the Human Rights dialog, in which the participants exchanged views and experiences, was one of various cooperations between the two countries in a bid to support Human Rights development.
