Foreign Minister Wang Yi Values The Homeland As A Strategic Business Partner, Luhut: We Are Ready To Strengthen The Indonesian Community - China

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The governments of Indonesia and China have established a comprehensive high-level dialogue cooperation mechanism. The formation was carried out in a high-level dialogue between the two countries on Saturday, June 5.

Citing the official website of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that Indonesia is a major and quite important developing country. According to him, China has always viewed China-Indonesia relations from a strategic perspective and developed cooperation between the two countries from a global perspective.

The local authorities considered the Indonesia-China meeting to be a big event and a good thing in bilateral relations, where important steps were taken by both sides to implement the consensus that had been agreed upon by the presidents of the two countries.

For information, the inaugural meeting of high-level dialogue between Indonesia and China was chaired by the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan.

"Since last year, President Xi Jinping and President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) have spoken by telephone four times to discuss bilateral cooperation in fighting the pandemic and development," Wang Yi was quoted as saying, Tuesday, June 8.

In the health sector, Yi said, over the past year and a half, China and Indonesia have worked together to overcome the challenges of the pandemic, conducting cooperation in the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines. This step also provides an example for the international community that collaboration in fighting the pandemic is important.

On the infrastructure side, both parties will align development strategies. For example, the Jakarta - Bandung high-speed train and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Corridor. The two of them also jointly promote development cooperation and contribute to regional economic recovery.

"Trade and investment cooperation has developed against the trend. China has been Indonesia's largest trading partner for 10 consecutive years and remains the second largest source of investment in Indonesia," he said.

Yi said for the China-Indonesia high-level dialogue, the two countries will take the establishment of a cooperation mechanism as an opportunity to better plan bilateral cooperation in various fields, gather more resources, and form greater synergies to elevate bilateral relations to a higher level. higher.

"We must set a long-term goal of jointly building a China-Indonesia community with a common future, focusing on political security, trade and investment, human and cultural exchange, maritime cooperation and anti-epidemic cooperation and public health, so that we can start a good mechanism and open a new situation for the comprehensive development of China-Indonesia relations," he explained.

Meanwhile, Coordinating Minister Luhut said that Indonesia-China cooperation in various fields had progressed rapidly and achieved remarkable results in recent years.

Furthermore, Luhut said the two sides continue to enhance cooperation and encourage new progress in bilateral relations in the spirit of community with a shared future, to help build an Indonesia-China community with a shared future.

Luhut assessed that the establishment of a high-level Indonesia-China dialogue cooperation mechanism would provide a platform for closer dialogue between government departments of the two countries and provide new support for more effective cooperation between the two countries.

"Indonesia is ready to work with China to accelerate the joint development of the Belt and Road, deepen the construction of a regional comprehensive economic corridor, and push for the completion of the Jakarta - Bandung high-speed train on schedule," he said.

These include, Luhut continued, deepening cooperation in the fields of fisheries, trade and investment, public health, aviation, space and maritime affairs, strengthening cultural and person-to-people exchanges and consolidating the foundations of friendship.