Rio Tinto boss leads IABC

The annual general meeting of the Indonesian-Australia Business Council (IABC) elected Noyke Kiroyan on Tuesday as its new president until 2002.

Noke Kiroyan, who is the president of the Rio Tinto Indonesia, subsidiary of Anglo-Australian mining firm Rio Tinto, replaces Sabam Siagian, who served as the council's president from 1996 to 2000, IABC said in a statement. (*)