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VIVAnews - The President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and First Lady Ani Yudhoyono will review electric cars and solar rickshaws in the Hall Magetan East Java. This morning, Tuesday, December 11, 2012, SBY and his entourage had departed from Halim Perdanakusuma Airport, Jakarta.
According to the Special Staff of the President of the Economic, Firmanzah, SBY will review electric car production in cooperation with PT PLN Sarimas Ahmadi Pratama, PT Great electric car production in cooperation with PT Asia Link Pindad, as well as the solar rickshaw chakra from student SMK PGRI 2 Ponorogo.
"Later in the show, there is also dialogue innovation with the innovators," said Firmanzah in Jakarta.
Firmanzah said, the president saw the potential of electric cars for the future of Indonesia. President is encouraging the development of electric cars.
"Mastery of innovation and technology in Indonesia likely to develop of electric cars. Higher oil prices make electric cars has the potential to be developed," said the former Dean of the Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia.
This morning, the president had left to East Java. However, the first president to visit the rice harvest in the village of Lembah, Madiun. Only after that the president would travel overland toward Magetan.
In a working visit, several ministers who accompany the President they are Coordinating Minister Hatta Radjasa, Coordinating Minister Djoko Suyanto, State Secretary Sudi Silalahi, SOE Minister Dahlan Iskan.
State Minister for Cooperatives and Small and Medium Sharif Hasan, Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Indonesia Mari Elka Pangestu, Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Azwar Abubakar.
Research and Technology Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta, Industry Minister MS Hidayat, Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam, Deputy Justice Minister Denny Indrayana, and the Secretary General of Democratic Party Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono. (umi)