CLOSING ADDRESSByProf. Dr. Harkristuti HARKRISNOWO,IndonesiaLadies and gentlemen, allow me to summarize the report of this seminar. This seminarwas held for three days from 18 to 20 of December 2002. Minister Kwik Kian Gie opened theseminar along with the Ambassador of Japan.
On the 1st day, we had 219 participants and 2 Japanese speakers, and 4 Indonesianspeakers with 2 moderators. The 2nd day, we had 160 participants, 2 Japanese speakers and 4Indonesian speakers with 2 moderators, and on this the 3rd day we have 152 participants with 3speakers and 1 moderator. The working group has drafted the Final Recommendations and I hopethe events do not stop at the recommendations; we hope that our colleagues here both fromIndonesia and Japan will be able to follow up the action to promote our criminal justice system.
Thank you.

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ByMr. Kunihiko SAKAI,(UNAFEI)The Indonesian-UNAFEI-JICA seminar is now coming to a close. As Director of UNAFEII would like to say congratulations to all the participants for your time at this joint seminar. At thesame time I would like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to the government ofIndonesia and JICA for their understanding, strong support, cooperation, and the success of thisjoint seminar.
I would also like to express my appreciation to those who have been working very hardbehind the scenes; I would appreciate it if you could give them a big round of applause. In thisseminar we have looked, in an integrated way, at various aspects of criminal justice systemreform, ranging from the police to correction institutions. We have exchanged experiences,knowledge and very interesting opinions, our discussions have extended to material matters likethe salary of prosecutors to the philosophy of an integrated criminal justice system. My specialthanks go to the seminar participants not only for your participation in the discussion but also forsinging and dancing in a very lively way.
I know many participants missed their chance to take the floor because of time constraints,but UNAFEI will always open the floor to everyone here, so please visit UNAFEI sometime todiscuss this further. Through this joint seminar I am very much impressed and encouraged to seeso many criminal justice people gather here and express concern about criminal justice systemsand discuss the future of this country.
As you already know Japan is also in the process of judicial reform and we would like towalk together on this long and winding road. Thank you very much.

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CLOSING ADDRESSByMs. Leila Ratna KOMALA(BAPPENAS)Ladies and gentlemen, now we come to the end of this three day seminar on criminaljustice systems and the seminar has already produced the recommendations which were just readby Ms. Harkrisnowo and already approved by all the participants. We hope from this seminar thatwe will contribute to the legal reform in Indonesia, therefore we also hope there will be follow upfrom this seminar in the form of concrete action and there will also be continuing cooperationbetween the government of Indonesia and the government of Japan especially in legal matters. Ithink we have already started with other activities and this seminar, and hopefully in the futurethere will be more action. With the closing of this seminar I hope it’s not the end of ourcooperation but the start of our continued cooperation towards legal reform. I hope that we willsee you all again on another occasion.
I would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to all parties that contributed to thesuccess of this seminar. My special appreciation goes to the participants of the seminar becausethey have already shown a strong interest in the criminal justice system. Once again thank youvery much and I hereby officially close this seminar.

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