Jakarta: Chairperson of the Committee for Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation (BKSAP) of the House of Representatives (DPR), Fadli Zon, has underlined the need to boost connectivity and people-to-people connections between Indonesia and Azerbaijan.
“Relations between Indonesia and Azerbaijan have been quite strong so far, but we need to increase connectivity and people-to-people connections,” he said during a bilateral meeting with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov, according to an official statement received here on Saturday.
The two countries need to increase connectivity and people-to-people connections in social, cultural, economic, and other strategic aspects, Zon expounded.
One of the things that needs to be highlighted, he said, is the potential for tourism cooperation, considering that Indonesia is the largest archipelagic country in the world with a host of tourism potentials.
As one of the initiators of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), a global forum for countries committed to peace who are not in alliance with any bloc, Indonesia has its own space in the international arena, Zon observed.
He said that Indonesia has become a role model for countries that uphold the principle of being free and active in their foreign policy.
According to him, through the Bilateral Cooperation Group (GKSB) of the DPR-Parliament of Azerbaijan, the two countries have knitted a fairly close interaction.
“That way, it (the group) is expected to become a foundation for strengthening the bilateral cooperation framework of the two countries in order to achieve common goals,” he said.
Meanwhile, Bayramov welcomed the potential for cooperation between Indonesia and Azerbaijan, especially in tourism.
He also congratulated Indonesia for having held its elections safely, peacefully, and democratically. This condition, he said, is expected to strengthen bilateral relations between Azerbaijan and Indonesia in the latter’s new leadership era.
