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35103
Thu, 12/11/2008 - 16:20
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ALATAS' BODY TO BE FLOWN TO JAKARTA THURSDAY
Jakarta, Dec11 (ANTARA) - The body of Presidential Advisory Board chairman and former Foreign Affairs Minister Ali Alatas, 76, who passed away in Singapore on Thursday morning is to be flown to Jakarta for burial on the same day.
Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Teguh Wardoyo said the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore was making the necessary arrangements for Alatas' remains to be flown to Jakarta on Thursday.
Teguh Wardoyo said Alatas passed away at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore at 7:30 local time on Thursday morning.
"From Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta Alatas' remains are to be laid in state in the Foreign Affairs Ministry's Pancasila building on Jalan Pejambon but this is still tentative because we have to coordinate it with various parties," Teguh Wardoyo said.
Asked where Alatas' body would be buried, Wardoyo said he was uncertain whether it would be at the Kalibata Heroes' Cemetery or elsewhere.
Ali Alatas was born on November 4, 1932 in Jakarta, and graduated from the Indonesian Foreign Service Academy in 1954, and from the Faculty of Law at the University of Indonesia in 1956.
He worked for the Indonesian Foreign Service in the Department of Foreign Affairs between 1954 and 1988.
During that time he held various positions at the Ministry and was stationed as diplomat in various Embassies of Indonesia, including in Bangkok and Washington D.C., as well as serving as Indonesian Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva (1975-1978) and New York (1982-1988).
Between 1988 and 1999, Alatas served as Foreign Affairs Minister of Indonesia.
Alatas was appointed an envoy of the United Nations Secretary General in 2005 for promoting a comprehensive agenda put forward in the report "In larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All."
He served as a member of the United Nations High Level Group on Alliance of Civilizations 2005-2006, and was a member of the Eminent Persons Group on the ASEAN Charter between 2005 and 2007.
He had been an adviser and a special envoy of the President of the Republic of Indonesia since 2003.
He had participated in and chaired numerous international seminars and symposia on strategic, political and economic issues. In addition, he has written many articles on these issues in national as well as international publications.
Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Teguh Wardoyo said the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore was making the necessary arrangements for Alatas' remains to be flown to Jakarta on Thursday.
Teguh Wardoyo said Alatas passed away at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore at 7:30 local time on Thursday morning.
"From Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta Alatas' remains are to be laid in state in the Foreign Affairs Ministry's Pancasila building on Jalan Pejambon but this is still tentative because we have to coordinate it with various parties," Teguh Wardoyo said.
Asked where Alatas' body would be buried, Wardoyo said he was uncertain whether it would be at the Kalibata Heroes' Cemetery or elsewhere.
Ali Alatas was born on November 4, 1932 in Jakarta, and graduated from the Indonesian Foreign Service Academy in 1954, and from the Faculty of Law at the University of Indonesia in 1956.
He worked for the Indonesian Foreign Service in the Department of Foreign Affairs between 1954 and 1988.
During that time he held various positions at the Ministry and was stationed as diplomat in various Embassies of Indonesia, including in Bangkok and Washington D.C., as well as serving as Indonesian Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva (1975-1978) and New York (1982-1988).
Between 1988 and 1999, Alatas served as Foreign Affairs Minister of Indonesia.
Alatas was appointed an envoy of the United Nations Secretary General in 2005 for promoting a comprehensive agenda put forward in the report "In larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All."
He served as a member of the United Nations High Level Group on Alliance of Civilizations 2005-2006, and was a member of the Eminent Persons Group on the ASEAN Charter between 2005 and 2007.
He had been an adviser and a special envoy of the President of the Republic of Indonesia since 2003.
He had participated in and chaired numerous international seminars and symposia on strategic, political and economic issues. In addition, he has written many articles on these issues in national as well as international publications.
