Accommodating Investment Interests For Delegation Of The G20 Bali Summit, Jokowi Immediately Forms A Task Force

President Jokowi held a meeting with US President Joe Biden at Kempinski Bali ahead of the G20 Bali Summit, Monday, November 14, 2022. (BPMI Setpres-Muchlis)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) ordered his staff to form a task force aka a special task force to follow up on the agreement at the Bali G20 Summit.

"This is really the most important thing to immediately follow up by forming a task force to finalize agreements," said Jokowi when opening a limited meeting related to the evaluation of the implementation of the G20 Summit at the Presidential Office, Jakarta, Monday, November 28, which was confiscated by Antara.

Jokowi said that from the G20 Summit series in mid-November 2022, there were 226 multilateral projects with a value of 238 billion US dollars or US dollars. Including 140 bilateral projects with a value of 71.4 billion US dollars.

"This must be ensured that all projects, programs, and initiatives can be executed quickly," he added.

Jokowi also saw that during the Business 20 (B20) event on the sidelines of the G20 Summit series, there were many interests and requests for investment in Indonesia. He hopes that the investment interest of the G20 delegation can be accommodated and realized in Indonesia.

"I see, for example, from the United States government through the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment scheme of 600 billion US dollars. Then 20 billion US dollars for the development of electric vehicles through Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) is like what it is," he said.

In addition, there is also an investment commitment from Japan, Britain, and the Republic of Korea for the MRT train project in Jakarta.

"kerja sama dengan Turki untuk pembangunan jalan Tol Trans Sumatra dan lainnya. Saya lihat ini sekali banyak. Oleh sebab itu perlu ada task force khusus, misalnya, yang Amerika siapa (yang memperlanjutkan), yang UAE siapa, yang Korea siapa, yang Jepang siapa, yang China siapa, yang China siapa, sehingga semuanya bisa secara detail ditindaklanjuti apa yang jadi kesepakatan di Bali," tandasnya.