Jakarta - Indonesia hoped the World Ocean Conference (WOC) scheduled in Manado, North Sulawesi, from May 11 to 15, 2009, would produce a World Ocean Forum.
A press release ANTARA received in Jakarta from the People`s Welfare Coordinating Ministry on Friday night said the statement was made by Minister of Marine and Fishery Affairs Freddy Numberi in his capacity of 2009 WOC chief organizer at a limited coordinating meeting on people`s welfare.
The working meeting was chaired by People`s Welfare Coordinating Minister Aburizal Bakrie, and attended by a number of cabinet ministers, Military (TNI) Chief General Djoko Santoso, and high-ranking government officials of the relevant ministries and government institutions.
Fredy also said that other results also expected from the 2009 WOC include a Manado Ocean Declaration (MOD) to be followed by a number of action plans, and implementation of the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) as a regional cooperation between the Philippines, Malaysia, Solomon Islands, the Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia.
It was also expected that the WOC would be followed by symposiums and exhibitions for an exchange of views and information on the development of the world`s oceans.
Meantime, the people`s welfare coordinating minister as host to the 2009 WOC has sent invitations to 121 countries and started building infrastructure facilities scheduled for completion by March 2009, while the North Sulawesi provincial administration has prepared 3,100 hotel and 3,000 home-stay rooms.
Monday, January 19, 2009
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