Cabinet Ministers Flock to Bali for New Years

(1/1/2010)

Four Minister from the Indonesian Cabinet spent the New Year's period on a working holiday in Bali, according to the Protocol Department of the Bali provincial government and the national new agency Antara.

• Minister of Health Endang Rahayu Setyaningsih was in town to attend the 50th anniversary of Denpasar's Sangah General Hospital.

• State Minister for Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises, Syarifuddin Hasan, came to Bali to speak to 1,000 college graduates, encouraging them to become entrepreneurs.

• Minister for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Fadel Muhammad, was touring the regency of Karangasem in East Bali to inspect a prawn production center.

• Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan spent the New Year holiday in Pumeteran on Bali's north shore in the Buleleng regency. During his visit, Zulkifli released ten rare and endangered Bali starlings back into the natural habitat of the West Bali National Park.