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View all search resultsNo plan for Prabowo-Trump meeting yet as govt finalizes tariff deal
Hopes are high for a meeting between President Prabowo Subianto and United States President Donald Trump as representatives of both countries work to finalize a trade tariff agreement.
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President Prabowo Subianto (left) looks on as United States President Donald Trump (center) addresses the press during a summit on Gaza in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Oct.13, 2025. Prabowo attended the summit and witnessed the signing of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas by guarantors Trump, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. (AFP/Pool/Suzanne Plunkett)
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he Foreign Ministry has neither received information about, nor made preparations for, a meeting between President Prabowo Subianto and his United States counterpart Donald Trump, despite earlier government statements suggesting both leaders would meet to finalize the tariff agreement between the two countries.
“The ministry has received no information on any efforts or plans for such a meeting at the end of this month, or the next month,” said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Yvonne Mewengkang during a press briefing in Jakarta on Thursday.
She added that the President was not scheduled to make any international visits in the coming weeks. Prabowo’s next high-level engagement will be with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during the latter’s visit to Jakarta in February.
Prabowo has met Trump twice since assuming the presidency in October 2024.
The first meeting took place on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September. Both leaders met again and had a brief informal conversation in October on the sidelines of the Gaza peace talks in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
However, the two leaders have not met in a formal bilateral meeting, with several analysts and observers pressing for such a meeting to take place in the near future.
Questions about a potential Prabowo-Trump meeting have arisen as the government works to finalize the Agreement on Reciprocal Tariff (ART) with the US.
