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JAKARTA – The Minister of Transportation, Budi Karya Sumadi, met with Singapore's Minister of Transport, Iswaran, to discuss strengthening cooperation between the two countries, in the transportation sector. One of them is about connectivity.

"Exploring opportunities for cooperation to increase air connectivity from Singapore to Indonesia to several tourist destinations in the country," he said in an official statement, Thursday, March 16.

The exploration of opportunities for this cooperation is in line with the agreement on air relations agreement between the two countries.

"And also the ASEAN Open Sky agreement and collaboration on port state control (PSC) and flag state inspection (FSI) activities to strengthen the safety and security of sea transportation," he explained.

Furthermore, Budi said that his party also discussed a number of matters in an effort to strengthen the cooperation that had been carried out so far. Such as, following up on air space cooperation or FIR and cooperation in human resource development in the maritime field through various training programs.

"Hopefully this meeting will further strengthen the mutually beneficial bilateral relations between the two countries," said the Minister of Transportation.

Minister of Transportation Budi will also accompany Indonesian President Joko Widodo, to attend the Indonesia-Singapore Leaders Retreat meeting which will be held at the Fullerton Hotel, Singapore, today.


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