Nani Afrida, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 12/15/2010
Indonesia secured on Wednesday AUS$14.5 million from Australia to improve its transportation safety and security standards.
The signing of the Memorandum of Agreement pledging the money was attended by Indonesia's Transportation Minister Fredy Numberi and Australia's Infrastructure and Transport Minister Anthony Albanese in Jakarta.
"Australia will provide AUS$14.5 million for the next four years, starting in July 2010," Fredy Numberi said, adding that the MoU tool the form of an arrangement between the two countries called the Indonesia Transport Safety Assistance Package.
Australia granted AUS$24 million in 2007 for a similar program, which helped finance 700 Indonesians to join a training program on aviation safety.
Albanese said the new fund would finance training programs to produce transport safety inspectors and accident inspectors, as well as joint search and rescue drills.
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