The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 08/04/2010 12:32 PM | Business
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono expressed his support Monday on the North Maluku provincial administration's plan to make Morotai island a a special economic zone.
Speaking at a ceremony in Ternate on Wednesday for the relocation of the North Maluku province's capital from Ternate on Ternate Island to Sofifi on Halmahera Island, the President demanded that the plan be prepared carefully.
The President even expressed his intension to visit Morotai Island to have a close look directly on the potentials which can be developed there.
As one of the outer islands, which functions as a gate to Indonesia through Pacific Ocean and lies on the major sea lane to Australia and New Zealand, Yudhoyono considered Morotai Island to be part of the economic movement in the Asia-Pacific region.
“If think strategically, let's do something in North Maluku, especially Morotai so as to enable it to be part of the economic movement in Asia-Pacific,” the President said as quoted by the Antara news agency.
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