Foreign Affairs Ministry Seeks to Enhance RI-Belarus Partnership
22 June 2015 16:54 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia and Belarus have a great chance to embark on an enhanced financial partnership as the two countries have respective advantages that support each other's economy, said Foreign Affairs Ministry's director general of America and Europe, Dian Triansyah Djani.
"Indonesia has the raw materials needed by the Belarusian industry, while they—a country of some 10 million people—have the high technology required by Indonesia to develop our economic sectors," Dian said in Minsk on Monday, June 22 as quoted by Antara.
Dian said Indonesia could increase rubber exports to Belarus. They will then turn the material into dump truck tires to be used by Indonesia's mining industry, he said when visiting a heavy equipment company, Belaz.
"For that purpose, I have taken to Belarus with me a number of businessmen—particularly those from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) to meet Belarusian employers as an effort to explore the possibility of trade and industrial cooperation between the two countries," said Dian.
He also said that the Foreign Affairs Ministry is "opening doors for Indonesian entrepreneurs wishing to focus developing partnerships with Belarus' strategic industries such as the heavy equipment industry and defense system."
The Indonesian delegates are in Belarus to seek agreements in the field of strategic industries, signed in the Joint Commission Meeting between the two countries.
Indonesia has been importing a number of goods from Belarus, including agricultural tools, medicine and heavy equipment. Indonesian exports to the European country include rubber, coffee, tea and furniture.
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