JAKARTA - Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto accompanied President Joko Widodo to meet with the President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan at the Al Shatie Palace, Abu Dhabi.
During the meeting, there was an exchange of IUAE-CEPA (Indonesia-United Arab Emirates Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement) documents, which were also exchanged together with other memorandums of understanding.
One of them is in the defense sector, namely the exchange of MoUs on cooperation between the Indonesian Military and the Indonesian Domestic Defense Industry and the Landing Platform Dock (LPD) Purchase Contract between PT PAL Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates Navy.
"Thank you for accepting us, in the midst of challenging situations like today, we continue to work together to improve relations between the two countries," Jokowi said as quoted from a written statement, Friday, July 1.
The day before, Prabowo, on Thursday (30/6), brought several Indonesian domestic defense industries, namely PT Pindad, PT Dirgantara Indonesia, PT PAL Indonesia, and PT Len Industri to meet with the UAE Minister of Defense Mohammed Ahmed Al Bowardi at the UAE Ministry of Defense.
At that time, a cooperation agreement was signed between PT PAL Indonesia and the UAE government, as well as between PT DI and PT Pindad respectively with the UAE private sector.
"Cooperation in the defense sector, especially the defense industry, is very important for both countries, especially for the development of the defense industry in the future," Prabowo said, Thursday.
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