As Santo Darmosumarto, director of the East Asia and Pacific division of Indonesia’s foreign ministry, said: “For a long time we have looked north; to Japan, Korea and China, and so has Australia, but in both looking north we have missed each other.”
Trade
[Video content] Coffee consumption in Indonesia has almost doubled in a decade. Coffee tourism is boosting small coffee-growing locations in remote parts of Indonesia.
The office of the USTR has removed tariffs for five Indonesian products: laminated plywood, some thin plywood, dry onion, rattan handicrafts as well as artificial sugar, honey and caramel.
Indonesia is dangling the world’s largest trove of nickel to lure the auto industry into spending billions of dollars to transform the islands into a hub for the technology.
The latest set piece showdown between the Labor Party leadership and its union base over a trade deal – this time with Indonesia – comes with some overlooked historic irony.
“This report confirms that the ratification of these agreements will enhance export opportunities and deliver significant benefits for Australian farmers and businesses.”
Kevin Evans, Indonesia Director of the AIC, says these “quite severe criminal punishments” are of considerable concern to the research community inside and outside of Indonesia.
Unions are worried, but Trade Minister Simon Birmingham insists the agreement won’t come at the cost of jobs.
