Tokyo: Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will meet on Saturday to discuss efforts to strengthen relations between the two countries.
“Tomorrow, the President and the Japanese Prime Minister will meet. The two leaders will meet again to discuss efforts that can strengthen our bilateral relations,” Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi informed in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday.
She made the statement while delivering her remarks at the inauguration of the Indonesian embassy building in Tokyo.
The meeting scheduled on Saturday is part of a series of activities of the ASEAN-Japan Commemorative Summit, which will take place on December 16 and 17.
“Earlier, the state minister (of Japan) said that this year, the intensity of relations between Indonesia and Japan has been very high,” Marsudi said.
The minister noted that Japan is Indonesia’s second-largest trading partner. In 2022, the value of trade between the two countries crossed $42 billion US dollars.
