Chinese Foreign Minister Is Ready To Collaborate On Vaccines

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan. (Photo: Kemenko Marves)

JAKARTA - The Chinese government has declared its readiness to increase cooperation in the field of vaccines with Indonesia and help fight the COVID-19 outbreak. This was stated by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in a telephone conversation from Beijing with the Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Pandjaitan.

Quoted from Antara, Sunday, February 7, remembering his meeting with Luhut in Lake Toba, North Sumatra, some time ago, Wang said that the meeting was to strengthen mutual trust in an effort to strengthen the friendship between the two countries.

The two sides have carried out the agreement reached by the two heads of state. China promised to prioritize fulfilling vaccine needs in Indonesia and support Indonesia to become a vaccine production center in Southeast Asia.

On that occasion, Wang also stated that China supports Indonesia in enhancing domestic development and enhancing its role at the global level.

As long as China and Indonesia unite, the two countries will make an even greater contribution to development in Asia. The two sides will accelerate the implementation of maritime cooperation by holding new negotiations at the upcoming technical meeting.

The two sides also immediately formed a trade working group and continued their efforts to advance the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed train project so that it could operate on schedule. Meanwhile, Minister Luhut positively welcomed the invitation to increase cooperation in the vaccine sector from his partners in China.

Indonesia hopes that there will be an increase in the value of investment from China and is ready to deepen cooperation in the fields of trade, maritime, sports, accelerate the development of the Road Belt Initiative (BRI) framework, increase cooperation in the Jakarta-Bandung fast train project, and projects of the two countries.

With the close relationship between the two countries' population of 1.7 billion people, Indonesia and China will become a comfortable place in the world, Luhut was quoted as saying by the Global Times.