Indonesia, Sept. 25 -- Indonesia's Trade Ministry has designated the city of Kupang in East Nusa Tenggara as a training center for legal metrology for officials from the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, officials said.

"Kupang is in a strategic location and well-suited to be a capacity-building center for Timor-Leste officials in legal metrology," Director of Metrology in the Ministry of Trade's Consumer Protection and Market Order Directorate Sri Astuti said here Wednesday.

Ten participants from Timor-Leste will take part in the training, which aims to support the development of Timor-Leste's regulations and oversight systems for measurement tools, standard calibration, and scale verification, similar to practices already in place i...