Article: The call for a new Bandung.(Opinion & Editorial)

AT the margins of the Third JCBC (Joint Commission for Bilateral Cooperation) between Indonesia and the Philippines, co-chaired by Indonesian Foreign Minister Noer Hassan Wirajuda and myself, I broached to the Indonesian panel the idea of convening a Bandung II on the commemoration of the golden jubilee of the Bandung conference of Third World leaders, which falls due in 2005. I said that it was logical and proper for the daughter of President Sukarno, now the Indonesian President, Megawati Sukarnoputri, to pick up the torch and lead in convening a new Bandung Summit, together with the rest of ASEAN.

Indeed, it turned out that the Indonesian government, together ...

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