Kadin Chairman Rosan Roeslani Called China Making Profits For Indonesia, About What?

Chairman of Kadin, Rosan P. Roeslani. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), Rosan P. Roeslani, said Indonesia benefited from the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) initiated by China because it could connect one country to another along the BRI route.

"Despite the difficulties and challenges facing the global economy today, China is implementing the Belt and Road Initiative to further open its economy to the rest of the world. Indonesia is benefiting from the initiative," said Rosan P. Roeslani in the webinar "Investment Opportunities in the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)" in Jakarta, as quoted from Antara, Friday, April 23.

Over the past four years, he continued, Kadin has seen this plan move rapidly from conception to operation by connecting the Silk Road Economic Belt together with the Maritime Silk Road through an extensive logistics and transportation network that connects one country to another along the Belt and Road route.

Another real progress, continued Rosan, is a multilateral financing platform with the establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the New Development Bank, and the Silk Road Fund, to support geo-economic enterprises and projects.

It should be noted, he said, that China was willing to link BRI with Indonesia's development strategy.

"We are of the view that Indonesia and China have the same interests, especially in infrastructure development in Indonesia, which is also the interest of many other countries in the region, including Pakistan," he said.

Because infrastructure development in Indonesia will create connectivity between countries that will be mutually beneficial.

The benefits of BRI in the end, said Rosan, would be to take advantage of opportunities for cooperation, access to new resources, markets, consumers, and services and act as a catalyst for commercial opportunities.

"In parallel, we are also pleased to see that under the BRI framework, China and Pakistan are also developing CPEC as a multibillion-dollar infrastructure development project set, under construction across Pakistan since 2013, intended to link Asia with Europe, the Middle East, and Africa," he said.