Jakarta Globe, Hendro Situmorang, February 6, 2014
Former Tourism Minister Joop Ave died on Wednesday at the age of 79. (Photo Supplied) |
Jakarta.
Joop Ave, Indonesia’s former Minister of Tourism and Telecommunications, passed
away at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Singapore from complications due to various
illnesses. He was 79.
His body
will be flown to Indonesia on Thursday and will be cremated in Bali.
Tourism
ministry spokesman Noviendi Makalam said Joop passed away at Mount Elizabeth
Hospital in Singapore.
“According
to the plan, he will be taken to Denpasar, Bali, on Thursday morning to be
cremated on Saturday, Feb. 8,” Noviendi said.
The
Yogyakarta-born former minister helped promote Indonesian tourism at the
international level in the 1990s, Noviendi said.
Joop served
as the minister from 1993 to 1998 under former president Suharto.
“We all
feel saddened by the loss of Joop Ave, the father who made Indonesian tourism
as big as it is today,” Noviendi said.
“Ibu Mari
Pangestu [the current tourism minister] will fly to Bali and attend the
cremation ceremony on Friday,” he added.
He served
as Head of the Household of the Presidential Palace from 1972 to 1978.
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