Re: What is the Challenge of Russian-Indonesian Economic Cooperation

the trade volume of Indonesia and Russia reached five billion US dollars in the next five years. However, this target has long been a common goal that is expected to be accessible by both countries. Unfortunately, this year's target has not stopped yet

The value of trading volume is indeed one indicator of the success of bilateral relations, but I can say that it is not the most important. Sometimes, quality is more important than quantity. However, of course we still have to work to achieve the target set a few years ago, namely to achieve the value of bilateral trade volume of five billion US dollars. This is certainly not impossible to achieve. It's just that the current world economic conditions are less profitable. The pace of the economy slows down almost all over the world and this also affects the economies of our two countries.

In this situation that must be done is, of course, we should not give up and keep trying to find new cooperation opportunities that can be applied in the current world economic conditions.
Therefore, we must further raise awareness or awareness of our entrepreneurs about business opportunities in Russia and Indonesia.

There are plans to use the national currency in trade transactions between Russia and Indonesia. Is this plan possible in 2020?

It certainly depends on our joint efforts to make it happen. So, we can not at all predict how quickly the plan can be completed. However, we will try.
we value transactions using national currency as an opportunity to enhance business cooperation between our two countries.

according to you there is a discourse that Indonesia will join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). If that happens, whether it will affect Russian-Indonesian relations in the economic, or even political

I think it's very difficult to answer the "if" question. Currently, the fact is, Indonesia does not join TPP. This is a kind of idea put forward by Indonesian leaders and of course Indonesian leaders who can decide which strategic economic alliance Indonesia wants to follow. So I am not the pros and cons of this discourse.