JAKARTA - Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sugiono welcomed the improvement of bilateral relations between Indonesia and Slovakia, highlighting the many strategic sectors that could be developed together by the two countries.
That was said by Foreign Minister Sugiono in a press statement with his counterpart, Slovakian Foreign Minister Juraj Blanar at the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jakarta.
In this bilateral meeting, both countries agreed to increase relations to the level of strategic partnership with a focus on the economic, research, defense, education, and tourism sectors.
"I welcome the proposal to increase relations to a strategic partnership between Indonesia and Slovakia. There are many strategic sectors that we can strengthen and develop together," said Foreign Minister Sugiono, Tuesday (3/3).
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Blanar, in turn, said that the readiness to expand cooperation between the two countries in various fields. He emphasized, this must start with student exchanges, considering education is the beginning of everything.
"Not only in the field of engineering, we have experience that we can offer, because this is an important thing to face various challenges, especially regarding developing countries in the field of infrastructure, electricity, to water management, wastewater and waste," he explained.
On this occasion, Foreign Minister Blanar also said his country is open to cooperation in the field of nuclear energy with Indonesia, highlighting Indonesia's plan to build a nuclear power plant.
He added that his country has experience in building, operating, and handling incidents and decommissioning nuclear power plants.
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