Indonesia-Malaysia Student Forum Set up

Indonesian and Malaysian student organization leaders have agreed to set up an Indonesian-Malaysian student association to strengthen cooperation and mutual understanding in promoting bilateral relations between the two countries.

"The forum will focus on increasing cooperation in education, economy, culture, sports and tourism," said Mohammad Ikram Bin Darus, representative of the Malaysian students council said at the Indonesian embassy in Kuala Lumpur Monday as quoted by antara news agency.

He said the forum will hold a conference early in July this year to promote what the forum will carry out in the coming years. In the meantime, education attache at the Indonesian embassy in Kuala Lumpur Rusdi MA gave his full support to the Indonesian student forum as a formal communication means of the student organizations of the two countries.