INDONESIA’S WTO NEGOTIATING TEAM
The Indonesian government is expected to appoint several experts as members of the
national negotiating team for the Doha Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, according to a February 6 report in the Jakarta Post quoting Herry Soetanto, Director for Multilateral Cooperation, Ministry of Trade and Industry.
The current WTO negotiation team, formed during the Abdurrahman administration is
composed exclusively of government officials and the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The team did not include sector or outside trade experts.
Minister of Industry and Trade Rini M. Soewandi will chair the national negotiating team. Several director-generals from government departments will be included as new team members. Halida Miljani, who is a senior official at the ministry, continues as the country's ambassador to the WTO.
Unnamed sources indicated that the Ministry of Trade and Industry had proposed three names to President Megawati Soekarnoputri for approval: economists Djisman Simandjuntak, Mari Pangestu and former Indonesian ambassador to the WTO Hasan Kartadjoemena. The appointment of the experts is part of the government’s agenda to revise existing presidential decree No.18/2001, signed by former president Abdurrahman Wahid, on the national negotiating team for the Doha Round.
It is expected that the national negotiating team will leave for Geneva after the revised Presidential Decree is issued, most likely in June.
ISSN 1492-7187, TRADE POLICY MONITOR, February 2002,
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