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ormer South Korean prime minister Kim Suk-soo will arrive in Jakarta on Wednesday night to participate in the one-day Korea-Indonesia Forum 2013 and to meet several senior Indonesian officials, a Korean diplomat said.

'Our former prime minister, Kim, will inaugurate the Korea-Indonesia Forum 2013 on Thursday. Indonesia's Regional Representatives Council chairman, Irman Gusman, and Korea's National Assembly Vice Speaker, Park Byeong-seug, will also participate in the forum,' South Korean Ambassador to Indonesia Kim Young-sun told The Jakarta Post.

Kim Suk-soo was South Korea's prime minister under president Kim Dae-jung from September 2002 to February 2003.

The Korea-Indonesia Forum, according to Ambassador Kim, is being jointly organized by the Seoul-based Korea Foundation and Indonesia's Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) as part of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Indonesia and Korea. The main theme of the forum will be 'Enhancing the Korea-Indonesia Middle Power Partnership'.

The Foreign Ministry's director general for Asia-Pacific and African affairs, Yuri O. Thamrin, Korean National Assembly's foreign affairs committee chairman ,Ahn Hong-joon, Korea Foundation chairman Kim Woo-sang and vice chair of CSIS Board of Trustees Jusuf Wanandi will also speak at the forum.