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Meeting with President of SEBRAE in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Sao Paulo, January 23, 2007

During their official visit to Sao Paulo, Brazil on January 23, 2007 Mr.Nico Barito, Senior Fellow of UNITAR and Mr.Musni Saiman, Member of PT.Damba Intra, Indonesia the funding partner of UNITAR conducted a courtessy meeting to SEBRAE in Sao Paulo. SEBRAE is a Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service. Mr.Barito expressed his admiration for the achievement of technical support of SEBRAE to small medium business in Brazil and have confidence that similiar approaches can be introduced to support the sustainable development of SMEs' in Indonesia and its neighboring countries.
During the meeting which was facilitated by Mr.Hasan Dajarahardja, Vice President - Chamber of Commerce Indonesia/Brazil, -

Miss Maria from SEBRAE discussed with Mr.Barito the scheme of reciprocal programs that has been implemented in Brazil and the possibilities to share the expertise in Indonesia and other developing countries in collaboration with UNITAR.

The President of SEBRAE has principally agreed to strengthen the path of this initial meeting, subsequently on capacity buidling of small medium enterpirses. Mr.Barito wishes that the effort to support the capacity of SMEs and the local governments within Indonesia will be of essence to promotes the cooperation between Brazil and Indonesia, especially to forster the access of SMEs to achieve competetive values in the era of globalization.

Both Mr.Paulo Tarcisco Okamotto, President of SEBRAE and Mr.Nico Barito will meet again in Brasillia by March 2007 to determine the challenge to support the informal entrepreneurs.

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