Indonesia to Announce Itself Knowledge Hubs

Denpasar - Indonesia will become a world scientific center that could share its experience in development with the developing South-South countries, a minister said. "Indonesia will announce and declare itself a Knowledge Hubs and would share its experience with other developing countries," Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, the state minister for national development planning . Armida told delegates in the South-South meeting here on Tuesday that Indonesia could share its experience in sectors of development , democracy , government administration, peace development and macro economy and financial management. She said Indonesia is considered successful in economic development, elimination of poverty through the program of community empowerment. The country also succeeded in mitigating and overcoming disasters, maintaining strong food resilience and in development of human resources, she added. . She said Indonesia has grown in status into a middle income emerging country . "The country is no longer only as recipient of aid from donor countries but itself has become a donor in the three sectors," she said. (*)