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Australia to host growth triangle workshop with RI, Timor Leste
Australia will hold a workshop of three countries united in the Timor Leste-Indonesia-Australia Growth Triangle (TIA-GT) in February, a senior official says
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ustralia will hold a workshop of three countries united in the Timor Leste-Indonesia-Australia Growth Triangle (TIA-GT) in February, a senior official says.
'The workshop will be held in Darwin, Australia, in the middle of February. The initial report on the results of prioritized cooperation area mapping conducted by the Charles Darwin University will be explained at the event,' TIA-GT unit mission chief Joao Mendes Goncalves said as quoted by Antara news agency in Jakarta on Monday.
He was speaking after attending a meeting with the Foreign Ministry's director general of Asia Pacific Yuri Thamrin and East Asia and Pacific director Andalusia Tribuana Tungga Dewi at the Foreign Ministry on Monday. The meeting discussed the follow up of economic and socio-cultural partnerships among three TIA-GT countries.
Goncalves, who was also former Timor Leste economic and development minister, said the workshop in Darwin was the second TIA-GT workshop after the first meeting in Dili.
Andalusia said that in the first workshop in Dili, the three TIA-GT member countries discussed common agreements on the mapping of prioritized cooperation areas covered by Australia.
'Australia was funding the mapping out of the partnerships' prioritized areas and potential conducted by the Charles Darwin University,' said Andalusia.
She further said that such mapping was important, with the hope that economic and social cultural partnerships among the three countries could be more effective and achieve expected targets.
Andalusia said the trilateral partnership would be focused on Timor Leste, eastern Indonesia, and northern Australia. The TIA-GT partnership was aimed at increasing connectivity among the three countries.
'As an initial step, we have established a sister city [link] between Ambon and Darwin,' said Andalusia.
The three-country-partnership began in 2012 when then Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono held a meeting with his counterparts, Timor Leste Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao and former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard.
The meeting took place on the sidelines of the fifth Bali Democracy Forum in Nusa Dua, Bali, in November 2012. (ebf)(+++)
