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RI, Netherlands agree to boost business, investment
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Stronger cooperation –Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi (right) holds a bilateral meeting with her Dutch counterpart, Foreign Minister Bert Koenders, at the Foreign Ministry in Jakarta on Thursday.
(Kompas.com/Nabilla Tashandra)
Indonesia and the Netherlands have agreed to encourage further business cooperation between the two countries.
In a bilateral meeting in Jakarta on Thursday, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and her Dutch counterpart, Foreign Minister Bert Koenders, expected that more Dutch businesspeople would invest in Indonesia, especially in the maritime sector.
The Foreign Ministry said in a press statement on Thursday that in the meeting, the two ministers had discussed potential Indonesian and Dutch partnerships in trade and investment. They also agreed to strengthen cooperation on infrastructure development in Indonesia.
“The Netherlands is one of Indonesia’s most important trade partners in Europe. It is also a traditional market of Indonesia,” the statement read as quoted by kompas.com.
In the closed meeting, the two ministers also said they were committed to increasing partnerships in the field of education between the two countries.
Earlier, Retno and Koenders held a meeting on the sidelines of the Bali Regional Ministerial Conference that ran from March 22 to March 23. (ebf)
