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Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Maritime and Investment, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan has visited China recently. In his visit, Minister Luhut met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Guiyang on Saturday (05/06). In the meeting, both of them signed a MoU on forming High Level Dialogue and Cooperation Mechanism -HDCM. In this agreement, Indonesian Coordinating Ministry for Maritime and Investment and members of Chinese State Council were given authority by each government to act as HDCM leaders. Both sides also signed a MoU on Maritime Cooperation Strengthening.

The press statement of the Coordinating Ministry of Maritime and Investment on Monday (07/06) mentioned that Minister Luhut expressed his belief that both countries can keep strengthening the mutually beneficial relations to increase people's welfare now and tomorrow.

The meeting discussed some strategic topics of the two countries, starting from politics, security, health, synergy, and strategy for developing priority cooperation projects, trade and economy, investment, as well as maritime and aeronautics. There were also some thematic meeting sessions with Chinese government and private sector discussing some cooperation programs and projects to be done by the two sides.

Meanwhile, quoting China's Foreign Ministry official webpage on Saturday (06/06), Minister Wang Yi said that Indonesia is a main developing country and quite important. According to Wang Yi, China always sees the China-Indonesia relations from a strategic perspective and will develop the two countries' cooperation from the global perspective.

Wang Yi further said that more recently, China and Indonesia have been joining hands in handling Covid-19 pandemic. Then, both countries also cooperated in vaccination. They had further coordinated development strategies, promoted development cooperation, and contributed for regional economic recovery.

Some Indonesia-China projects, such as Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail and Two Countries Twin Park are going smoothly. Also, China is Indonesia's top trade partner in the last 10 years and 2nd top investment source. Wang Yi said that both countries must take the High-Level Dialogue and Cooperation Mechanism as an opportunity to plan some better bilateral cooperation in various sectors, to collect more resources, and to form a greater synergy in a bid to bring the bilateral relations into a higher level.