Microsoft to Build Research Center in Indonesia

Jul. 1–JAKARTA — Microsoft Corp. will build a research center in Indonesia with an agreement to be signed between President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Microsoft Asia in Beijing in the middle of this month, Research and Technology Minister Kusmayanto Kadiman said Friday.

Kadiman made the remarks to reporters after accompanying Microsoft Indonesia President Tony Chen to a meeting with Yudhoyono.

He said Yudhoyono has chosen the 300-hectare Jababeka industrial area in the West Java provincial town of Cikarang as the location for the research center, which will be Microsoft’s fifth after those already existing in the United States, Britain, China and India.

The plan to build the research center followed a meeting between Yudhoyono and Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates in Redmond, Seattle last May.

“A cooperation agreement will be signed directly by the president and Microsoft Asia in Beijing during the president’s visit in the middle of this month,” Kadiman said.

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