JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto revealed that plans to purchase 50 Boeing aircraft were part of Trump's tariff negotiations.
Airlangga explained that currently the process of purchasing aircraft is still in the process of negotiating business to business between Boeing and Garuda Indonesia.
"The Garuda aircraft is in the process of negotiating business between Boeing and Garuda. So we will wait for further developments technically later," Airlangga said at a press conference, Monday, July 21.
Previously, Secretary of the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs Susiwijono Moegiarso, emphasized that the agreement was still in its early stages so that no contract value had yet been established.
"Yesterday's MOU also hasn't (there is) what Garuda has yet to sign, the new signature is for energy with agriculture," he told the media crew, Friday, July 18.
"But we have explored that there will be an agreement there but it still depends on business considerations, and so on," he added.
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It is known, President Prabowo Subianto said that the purchase of Boeing aircraft from the United States was to support the development of the national airline Garuda Indonesia.
"Yes, indeed, we need to raise Garuda, Garuda is our pride, Garuda is a national flight carrier, Garuda was born in our independence war. So Garuda must be a symbol of Indonesia, we are determined, I am determined to raise Garuda and for that, we need new planes. I don't think there is a problem because we need it, they want to sell, the Boeing plane is also quite good, we also stay from Airbus," he said.
Prabowo emphasized that trade cooperation between Indonesia and the United States is based on common interests.
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