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EU ambassador hopes new RI president will uphold human rights

European Union Ambassador to Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam and ASEAN Olof Skoog, said he hoped whoever was elected Indonesia's next president and vice president would continue to develop democracy, strengthen tolerance and uphold human rights

Slamet Susanto (The Jakarta Post)
Yogyakarta
Wed, May 21, 2014

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uropean Union Ambassador to Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam and ASEAN OlofSkoog, said he hoped whoever was elected Indonesia's next president and vice president would continue to develop democracy, strengthentolerance and uphold human rights.

"We hope that whoever is chosen will be an open leader, especially towardtheir own people," Skoog said on the sidelines of a European studiesconvention at Gadjah Mada University (UGM) in Yogyakarta on Wednesday.

Furthermore, Skoog said that he hoped the new leaders would continue to pushfor more infrastructure development, better education and economic growth.

Skoog referred to the fact that Indonesia and the EU had strong economic ties, with the EU relyingheavily on Indonesia for timber products, adding that Indonesia supplied 10percent of the wood needed among EU countries.

The EU's deputy ambassador, Colin Crooks, added that Indonesia's crude palmoil (CPO) exports to the EU had doubled in the past five years, and nowcontrolled 48 percent of the total CPO on the market.

As one of the largest archipelagic nations in the world and with one of the largestpopulations, Skoog said the EU recognized Indonesia as an extremelystrategic nation.

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