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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Finland has expressed its interest to take part in the effort to conserve Lake Toba in North Sumatra. This was said by Kalervo Vaananen the Chairman of Finland Rector Forum after a meeting with Vice President Jusuf Kalla in Jakarta just recently.
“We hope that in the future we can involve Lake Toba in developing the cooperation, how it can be protected and cleaned,” said Vaananen at the Vice President office.
“The cooperation was suggested by our colleagues from Indonesia. When we visited Sumatra, some universities invited us to a discussion about Lake Toba and few months later we developed the cooperation.”
Vaananen will soon meet with Environmental and Forestry Ministry Siti Nurbaya to settle legal issues for the partnership.
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