Indonesia and Japan have agreed to increase strategic partnerships in politics, economics and the defense and security sector, which includes facing the threat of piracy, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said.
“Based on the success story of the RI-Japan economic cooperation and seeing the challenges ahead, we have agreed to continue the cooperation via investment and trade, energy, agriculture and infrastructure building, Yudhoyono said on Friday night after a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
The move is in line with Indonesia’s current chairmanship of ASEAN and future role as the host of the East Asian Summit.
“I am glad that Prime Minister Naoto Kan agreed that the East Asian Summit was not a forum to increase tension and conflict in the region but to strengthen the high commitment to safeguarding peace and finding peaceful solutions,” Yudhoyono said as quoted by Tempointeraktif.com.
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