BEIJING: President Xi Jinping and Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto agreed on Monday to develop a closer relationship by deepening cooperation in various areas including poverty alleviation as the 72-year-old Indonesian politician arrived in China for his first overseas visit after winning the race to lead Southeast Asia’s biggest economy last month.
During their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Xi hailed the substantive progress achieved in the development of bilateral relations over the past decade, saying that the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway has become a shining example of high-quality cooperation between the two countries.
“China always views its relations with Indonesia from a strategic height and long-term perspective and is willing to run the historical relay race with Indonesia,” he said.
Now that bilateral ties have entered a new stage of building the China-Indonesia community with a shared future, Xi said that China is ready to deepen all-around strategic cooperation with Indonesia so as to better benefit their peoples and make positive contributions to peace, stability and prosperity in the region and across the world.
Xi said that the fruitful results achieved in bilateral relations lie in the two countries’ adherence to strategic independence, mutual trust and assistance, cooperation for mutual benefit, and the upholding of fairness and justice.
He called on China and Indonesia, both of which are major developing countries and emerging economies, to cooperate in all sincerity in the future and make China-Indonesia relations an example of win-win cooperation, a model of common development and a pioneer of South-South cooperation.
Xi expressed China’s willingness to share experiences on state governance with Indonesia, strengthen the alignment of development strategies and keep deepening maritime cooperation. China will also enhance cooperation with and provide support to Indonesia in the field of poverty reduction and eradication, he added.
The Indonesian president-elect, who is currently the nation’s defense minister, started a three-day visit to China on Sunday. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
