ITALY AND INDONESIA SIGN INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION AGREEMENT
(VELINO) Roma, 15 Dec - Italy and Indonesia signed an agreementin Jakarta to cooperate in industrial development. The eightyear Memorandum of Understanding aims to encourage partnershipsbetween public and private industrial firms, strengthen anddevelop Indonesia's infrastructure through vocational trainingand intensify cooperation. It also aims to encourage industrialresearch, the sharing of expertise and participation inconferences and seminars. Indonesia's textile industrytechnology centres in Bandung and shoe manufacturers inSurabaya will be modernised with help from Italian tradeassociations ACIMIT and ASSOMAC. Italian ambassador, FedericoFailla, said the deal was one of the results of the