Vice President Boediono was accompanied by the head of the Presidential Working Unit for Development Control and Supervision Kuntoro Mangkusubroto to the meeting, which was the continuation of the earlier meeting in the Netherlands to discuss the handling of floods in Jakarta and developing Jakartas coastal area and port and their surrounding areas.
Kuntoro said, "We heard the exposition from the Netherlands and we wish to know how the Dutch had so far organized it," during the meeting.
Minister Schultz was accompanied by 18 CEOs and executive officials of the Dutch companies operating in the infrastructure sector, especially water and flood control management, during this visit.
Last week in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Vice President Boediono had met Minister Schultz to discuss flood control when he had visited that country from March 22-28.
"We are convinced that water management could open a new field of cooperation between the Netherlands and Indonesia," Schultz had said then.
Vice President Boediono, while in the Netherlands, also visited Maesland Barrier, a water gate that had been specially designed to accommodate rain storms that often hit that country during October and April.
Maeslant Barrier is a mega-project and is one of the Delta Works infrastructure and construction projects in the Netherlands southwest region. It was constructed to combat floods after the big floods of 1953, which had inundated 175 hectares of land in the region and killed more than 1800 people.
The meeting lasted for around 40 minutes and began at 2 p. m.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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