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WB president to visit RI
World Bank (WB) Group president Jim Yong Kim will visit Indonesia from May 19 to 22, in an effort to strengthen the groupâs partnership with the worldâs fourth most populous country
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orld Bank (WB) Group president Jim Yong Kim will visit Indonesia from May 19 to 22, in an effort to strengthen the group's partnership with the world's fourth most populous country.
During his first visit to Indonesia since he resumed the WB group presidency in July 2012, Kim is scheduled to meet with President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo, Vice President Jusuf Kalla, Yogyakarta Governor Hamengkubuwono, Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro, other high-ranking government officials and businesspeople.
The WB group president will also visit Rekompak, a community-based post-disaster reconstruction project; a public primary healthcare center; Sunda Kelapa Port and Tanjung Priok Port, among other places.
'Indonesia is one of the World Bank's most important shareholders, and we opened the Jakarta office back in 1968, our first country office outside of Washington, DC,' Kim said in a release on Monday.
Kim said the bank supported Jokowi's mission of ending extreme poverty and sharing prosperity more widely across this vast archipelago.
'Indonesia can be deservedly proud of its remarkable progress and the enormous gains it has made in poverty reduction. Halving the poverty rate in some 15 years, to 11.3 percent today, is a huge achievement. We are confident that Indonesia will continue its enviable pace of poverty reduction and lift more people out of poverty,' he said.
World Bank East Asia and Pacific regional vice president Axel van Trotsenburg, bank country director for Indonesia Rodrigo A. Chaves, International Finance Corporation (IFC) director for East Asia and the Pacific Vivek Pathak and IFC country manager for Indonesia Sarvesh Suri will accompany Kim on his visit to Indonesia.
Kim is scheduled to speak at the University of Indonesia's campus in Salemba, Central Jakarta, on May 21. He will also hold press conferences after his meetings with Jokowi and Kalla. (ebf)
