Vice President Asks Indonesian Citizens In Egypt To Be Involved In Expanding Indonesia's Spice Distribution

Vice President (Wapres) Ma'ruf Amin. (Between)

JAKARTA - Vice President (Vice President) Maruf Amin asked Indonesian diaspora in Egypt, including students with the status of Indonesian citizens, to become hamzah washal or a liaison for Indonesian spice routes.

The vice president said the diaspora and the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia (KBRI) in Egypt were connecting the sale of processed products made from Indonesian spices.

"I ask the diaspora, including the ambassador, to become a hamzah washal that connects all of our products in Indonesia to be marketed globally," said the Vice President during a dialogue with the Indonesian diaspora at Wisma Duta KBRI Cairo, Egypt, Saturday 5 November.

He conveyed that Indonesia needed to rebuild the spice route, where in the past many Europeans had come to Indonesia looking for spices.

Currently, said the Vice President, Indonesian spices must reopen their export routes, but in the form of processing or have been lost.

"The ambassador said Egypt is the largest coffee exporter, but the coffee is ours from Indonesia. So how do we process it. The spice route is just a term, like China building a railway line. We build a commodity spice route for everything we have, God willing, the diasporas will be the hamzah of the washal," he said.