| Abstract: | At APEC’s second “summit” meeting, in November 1994, President Suharto of Indonesia steered the leaders of the eighteen member
countries, or territories, to accept the vision of “free trade in the region” by 2020, with the developed economies achieving
the goal by 2010. Six months later, Indonesia introduced a package of liberalization measures that combined its commitments
in ASEAN, the Uruguay Round agreements, and the APEC process. It has hoped thereby to show others what might be done to achieve
“the Bogor goals.”
Arifin M. Siregar, the Indonesian ambassador to the United States, was Indonesia’s minister of trade in 1988–1993. He was
previously governor of the Bank of Indonesia (1983–1988). Before joining the bank as an executive director in 1971, Dr. Siregar
was an economic affairs officer at the United Nations, New York (1961–1963); an economic officer at the United Nations, Beirut,
Lebanon (1963–1965); and a senior economist at the International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC (1965–1971). |
