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Comments on other issues: RI-Turkey ties: Toward shared growth, stability
Renewed ties: President Joko âJokowiâ Widodo (right) welcomes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Edorgan at the State Palace in Jakarta on Aug
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Renewed ties: President Joko âJokowiâ Widodo (right) welcomes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Edorgan at the State Palace in Jakarta on Aug. 1.(Courtesy of Presidential Office/Cahyo) (right) welcomes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Edorgan at the State Palace in Jakarta on Aug. 1.(Courtesy of Presidential Office/Cahyo)
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span class="inline inline-center">Renewed ties: President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo (right) welcomes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Edorgan at the State Palace in Jakarta on Aug. 1.(Courtesy of Presidential Office/Cahyo)
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Over the past few weeks and months, the headlines grabbing our attention on Indonesia-Turkey relations have centered on the many Indonesians arrested and deported for trying to illegally cross over to Syria or the Turkish nationals being tried on terrorism charges in Indonesia.
While these are important issues, the nature of the bilateral relationship between Indonesia and Turkey is deeper and greater than this.
Historically, Indonesia-Turkey relations can be traced back to the 16th century, marked by friendly bonds between the Sultanate of Aceh and the Ottoman Empire. Shortly after Indonesia's independence, the two countries officially established diplomatic relations in 1950. (By Agung Kurniadi, Jakarta)
Your comments:
Your friends in the Trade and Finance Ministries are doing their level best to stifle imports ' especially foodstuffs and clothing.
Do you have any idea at all about how difficult it is to get all the required permits and licenses to import food into Indonesia?
Any food importer will tell you about the expensive hurdles put in the way of any attempt to import food ' each and every single different item has to have its own costly, time-consuming permit.
Indonesia is trying to close its ports to imports. It's a waste of time trying to increase imports from Turkey.
Terry McAsee
Glad to hear of cooperation plans with Turkey.
Maybe Australia and Indonesia could also become friends again and restart joint military exercises for the benefit of both countries.
Eddy Saf
Indonesia is in the Asia Pacific region, with powerful neighbors like China, Japan, South Korea and Australia.
Turkey and Iran, though sharing a common ideology, are geographically too far for them to be concerned with any meaningful military alliance.
Indonesia and Malaysia combined probably have the largest concentration of Muslims in the world.
It would be far better for Muslims in this region to develop their own brand of moderate and forward-looking Islam than to rely on the doctrines set out by the Arab
nations.
Tommy Tan
