InfoSAWIT, BADUNG – Minister of External Affairs Indonesian Republic, Retno Marsudi claimed that the African countries that met President Joko Widodo showed their strong interest to increase their capacity in palm oil industries. It was told in the press conference of High-Level Forum Multi-Stakeholders Partnership (HLF MSP) and the 2nd Indonesia-Africa Forum (IAF) in Badung, Bali Province, Monday (2/9).
"When meeting in persons with President (joko Widodo), many wanted to increase their capacity in palm oil sector, for instance,” she said, as InfoSAWIT quoted from Antara, Tuesday (3/9/2024). Retno thought, some African countries would join Committee of Palm Oil Producing Countries (CPOPC), palm oil producer association.
Besides asking for getting cooperation to increase palm oil industrial capacity, she also said that some wanted to get cooperation in health sector. One issue that President Joko Widodo and Vice President Zimbabwe, Kembo Dugish Campbell Muleya Mohadi discussed, was the economic cooperation in pharmacy sector.
She also mentioned Indonesia got agreement of cooperation in heath technology transfer with Ghana, and vaccine technology transfer with Kenya. The agreements should reinforce the health sector for the two African countries.
“Africa would be big enough for us not to notice. Indonesia would be ready to cooperate with the African countries particularly in food, energy, health, and mineral sectors,” Retno emphasized the commitment of Indonesia to expand the cooperation in African continent.
HLF MSP 2024 and the 2nd IAF in Bali this year proposed the theme "Strengthening Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships: Towards a Transformative Change" and "Bandung Spirit for Africa’s Agenda 2063". It presented many global – scale stakeholders, including the main session at Joint Leaders Session Indonesia-Afrika (IAF), HLF MSP 2024 and High-Level Plenary Session in the second day. (T2)
