INTERNATIONAL SPICE CONFERENCE

Chairman of Indonesian Spices Council (DRI) Adi Sasono (L) talks to Minister of Agriculture Suswono (C) and Deputy Staff of the Coordinating Ministry of People's Welfare Magdalena MM during the first International Spices Conference in Ambon, Maluku, August 19, 2013. The first conference in which dozens of spices businessmen from various countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines took part is hoped to make Indonesia as the number one international spices producer. ANTARA FOTO/Jimmy Ayal/ed/ama/ox/13.