Jabar Ekspres – Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is scheduled to have a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on July 27 or 28, 2023.
“The President will go to Chengdu (China). He will be there on July 27 and 28. The main program is to meet, have a bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping,” Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said at the Presidential Palace Complex, Jakarta, Tuesday.
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In addition to meeting with Xi Jinping, Retno explained, President Jokowi will also conduct business meetings with a lot of big businessmen in China.
Then, President Jokowi also together with a number of heads of state are scheduled to attend the opening of the Olympics for world students held in Chengdu. The student Olympics was planned to be held in 2021, but had to be postponed twice due to COVID-19.
President Jokowi also made a working visit to China in July 2022, Monday, which was included in a series of working visits to three East Asian countries, namely China, Japan and South Korea.
During the meeting in July 2022, Jokowi and Xi Jinping conveyed their respective commitments to strengthen mutually beneficial economic cooperation for the two countries as well as the region and the world. The two leaders at the July 2022 meeting also discussed the G20 and ASEAN.
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Indonesia and China are known to have close economic cooperation. Citing data from the Indonesian Ministry of Trade, the total trade between Indonesia and China in 2022 reached 133.5 billion US dollars. The growth trend in the value of trade between the two countries in the last five years reached 17.69 percent.
