UAE, Indonesia sign free trade agreement

[The SC]

UAE, Indonesia sign free trade agreement in Abu Dhabi, 30th June, 2022 [WAM]

July 1, 2022

Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates today signed a free trade agreement, strengthening economic ties between Southeast Asia's largest economy and the major oil producer Gulf state, Reuters reports.

The Indonesian Trade Ministry's Director General of International Trade Negotiations Djatmiko Bris Witjaksono told the news agency the agreement had been signed in Abu Dhabi, the UAE capital.

This came as Indonesia's Defence Minister, Prabowo Subianto, is on an official visit to the UAE where he met yesterday with his Emirati counterpart Mohammed Bin Ahmed Al Bowardi.

During the meeting, the parties discussed cooperation and joint coordination between the two friendly countries in the defence and military fields and ways to enhance them in the best interest of the two countries.

Al Bowardi stressed the UAE's desire to bolster ties with Indonesia in various domains, especially in issues related to defence and military Affairs and methods to boost them.

The two sides attended the signing of Memoranda of Understanding and agreements, including a protocol agreement between the Ministries of Defence in both countries regarding cooperation in the field of defence industries and military procurement, a protocol agreement between the Indonesian Ministry of Defence and the Tawazun Economic Council.

The two sides also signed a MoU for cooperation in the design, manufacture and marketing of mechanisms fields between the Indonesian Ministry of Defence and the UAE company Calidus.


https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220701-uae-indonesia-sign-free-trade-agreement/

 

[Corruptistan]

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UAE, Indonesia sign free trade agreement in Abu Dhabi, 30th June, 2022 [WAM]

July 1, 2022

Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates today signed a free trade agreement, strengthening economic ties between Southeast Asia's largest economy and the major oil producer Gulf state, Reuters reports.

The Indonesian Trade Ministry's Director General of International Trade Negotiations Djatmiko Bris Witjaksono told the news agency the agreement had been signed in Abu Dhabi, the UAE capital.

This came as Indonesia's Defence Minister, Prabowo Subianto, is on an official visit to the UAE where he met yesterday with his Emirati counterpart Mohammed Bin Ahmed Al Bowardi.

During the meeting, the parties discussed cooperation and joint coordination between the two friendly countries in the defence and military fields and ways to enhance them in the best interest of the two countries.

Al Bowardi stressed the UAE's desire to bolster ties with Indonesia in various domains, especially in issues related to defence and military Affairs and methods to boost them.

The two sides attended the signing of Memoranda of Understanding and agreements, including a protocol agreement between the Ministries of Defence in both countries regarding cooperation in the field of defence industries and military procurement, a protocol agreement between the Indonesian Ministry of Defence and the Tawazun Economic Council.

The two sides also signed a MoU for cooperation in the design, manufacture and marketing of mechanisms fields between the Indonesian Ministry of Defence and the UAE company Calidus.


https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220701-uae-indonesia-sign-free-trade-agreement/

Actually I did not know until recently, that Arab-Indonesians (some 5 million people) are the largest non-native ethnic group in Indonesia after the Han Chinese in Indonesia. Almost all of the Arabs in Indonesia and South East Asia as a whole originated from Yemen and KSA. Add that there is a large Indonesian diaspora in the GCC (KSA in particular) and many local citizens of Indonesian origin. Add the religious, cultural etc. aspects. Or economic one. If you add all this, the GCC and Indonesia should really be one of the strongest allies out there that you can imagine.

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[Corruptistan]

Arab Indonesians - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Before the Brits, Arabs used to own most of Singapore even controlling most of the trade between Western Asia and Southeast Asia before the Europeans got the overhand.

When I used to live in Jeddah, there were tons of local Saudi Arabians of Indonesian/Malay origins as well not including the local diasporas.

 

[Indos]

The cooperation with Indonesian Aerospace include N 219 and our MALE UCAV Elang Hitam. I wonder whether we are going to integrate UAE missile on this plat form @Philip the Arab

 

[Philip the Arab]

The cooperation with Indonesian Aerospace include N 219 and our MALE UCAV Elang Hitam. I wonder whether we are going to integrate UAE missile on this plat form @Philip the Arab

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There is an opportunity for far more than just that in my opinion.

Even help on missile development is possible considering Indonesia is trying to reverse engineer the C-705.

Cruise missiles, loitering munitions, air defense munitions etc.

There is an agreement between PT PAL and Calidus for 8x8 vehicle development.

They also have many hundreds of Brazilian engineers who worked at Embraer that can help Indonesia with development of C235, N219 and other aircraft.

 

[Indos]

There is an opportunity for far more than just that in my opinion.

Even help on missile development is possible considering Indonesia is trying to reverse engineer the C-705.

Cruise missiles, loitering munitions, air defense munitions etc.

There is an agreement between PT PAL and Calidus for 8x8 vehicle development.

They also have many hundreds of Brazilian engineers who worked at Embraer that can help Indonesia with development of C235, N219 and other aircraft.


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Just correction, the cooperation with this 8x8 UAE Wahas (Calidus) is not with PT PAL Indonesia (shipbuilder), but with PT Pindad