President Jokowi Will Open The ASEAN Indo-Pacific Forum

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is planned to open the ASEAN Indo-Pacific Forum (AIPF) directly, which will be held in Jakarta on September 5-6, 2023, as the flagship event of the 43rd ASEAN Summit.

"After the opening, the President (Jokowi) together with leaders of other countries will also make direct visits to see the exhibition of ongoing projects," said Deputy Foreign Minister Pahala Mansury as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, August 29.

Through AIPF, Indonesia as chairman of ASEAN this year wants to advance cooperation in the development of concrete projects, especially in three sectors, namely green infrastructure and supply chain resilience, digitization and creative industry, as well as financing. In addition to the 93 projects that can be categorized as mature projects with a total value of US$38 billion (around Rp579.4 trillion), Indonesia also identifies a number of other projects that fall into the potential category. We are also talking with ministries and institutions in Indonesia to ensure that thedeliverable project is in accordance with ASEAN's centrality as the epicenter of growth," said Pahala.

AIPF consists of panel discussions and forumone-on-one business matching as discussion forums between regulators and the private sector, to ensure that delivery is possible from documents generated at the ASEAN Summit.

Various discussions of panel and show will present industry leaders, experts from the government, international financial bodies, international organizations, as well as world-class companies from ASEAN and partners in the Indo-Pacific region. Project displays and business matching meetings complement a series of AIPF events.

Eight SOEs together with the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Standard Chartered, Google, Sun Cable, BRitish Chamber of Commerce, were actively involved in the AIPF series of events. The eight SOEs (state-owned enterprises) in question are BRI, Pertamina, PLN, Bank Mandiri, BNI, MIND ID, Telkom Indonesia, and Injourney. A number of leaders of organizations and companies will also be resource persons and panelists, including those from the World Economic Forum, ASEAN-BAC and Kadin, Maybank, Airbus, Ampl Medical, Forest Carbon Microsoft, and Business Council Canada. In addition, there is the European Investment Bank, Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs, bp, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, US Trade and Development Agency, Loca Laos, Aruna, Sera Fairatmos.