Joko Visits Leiden University, Meets With Dutch King Before Heading Home
Jakarta. Before completing his European tour, President Joko Widodo took time to visit Leiden University near The Hague on Friday (22/04), where he was welcomed by a small group of Indonesian students currently studying there.
Joko took a guided tour around the university, including a statue-filled room. One of the statues pictured Hussein Djajadiningrat, the first Indonesian to achieve a doctoral degree there in 1913.
The president also viewed some of the university's historic documents before being taken to the Zweetkamertje (sweat chamber), a room where graduates used to wait before taking exams for their doctoral degrees.
Joko, accompanied by Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, continued to the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague to meet with Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima before departing to Indonesia from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
Earlier, Joko had also met with a forum of Dutch businessmen, resulting in four agreements with a total value of $606 million.
The agreements include the construction of solar panel factory in Surabaya, East Java; construction of the Pancasila Palmerah Bridge, which will include turbines to generate electricity from tidal waves, in Larantuka, East Nusa Tenggara; and human resources development in Indonesia's maritime sector.
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