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Luhut welcomes China’s Wang Yi to hometown for investment talks
The Chinese state councilor is expected to stay overnight in North Sumatra before flying onto Jakarta to meet Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and President Joko Widodo.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi sits on the podium during the 56th Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on Feb. 15, 2020. (AFP/Christof Stache)
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oordinating Maritime Affairs and Investments Minister Luhut Pandjaitan played host to China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday, as the state official visited his hometown near Lake Toba in North Sumatra to discuss cooperation on investments.
The Chinese official was on the first leg of a two-day visit to Indonesia, which is part of a bigger tour of Southeast Asia that runs from Monday through Saturday, according to a statement from the Chinese foreign ministry.
His visit makes up for a canceled plan for the Chinese state councilor to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Indonesian-Chinese relations last year, which was shelved as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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During the stopover in Toba, the ministers were expected to follow up on a request to widen access for Indonesian exports of tropical fruit and fisheries products to China and to increase Chinese imports of Indonesian coal.
The visit also sought to involve Chinese tertiary education institutions in developing the Center for the Conservation, Research and Innovation of Chinese-Indonesia Medicinal Plants in Humbang Hasudutan, North Sumatra.
The Chinese official spent the night in North Sumatra before departing for Jakarta on Wednesday to meet Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo.
