RI SELECTED AS CRBOM HUB IN ASIA-PACIFIC

Solo, Central Java, April 28 (ANTARA)- Indonesia has been selected to serve as a hub for the Center of River Basin Organization and Management (CRBOM) in Asia and the Pacific.

Indonesia was selected as the water management knowledge exchange center because the country had many rivers and experience in this field, Iwan Nusyirwan, the public works ministry's director general for water resources, said here on Tuesday after officially opening a training on river area management.

Meanwhile, Water Resources Management Development Director Sugiyanto said Indonesia had 5,700 river basin areas (DAS) and 62 of them were damaged