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Entering 25 years of cooperation between Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT), a number of important achievements achieved by the three countries. Starting from the growth of IMT-GT in 2016 which reached 4.4 percent to GDP per capita population in the IMT-GT region that recorded the value of USD14.557 in 2016 from the previous USD11.508 in 2011.

This was conveyed by President Joko Widodo while attending the 11th Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) Meeting at Banyan Room, Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore.

Even from the side of air connectivity, the number of international airports in the IMT-GT area increased by three times from 9 airports in 1995 to 28 international airports today.

Nevertheless, the President reminded that there are still many tough challenges faced in this region.

"The region and the world today are still haunted by the uncertainty resulting from competition between the big powers and the already existing trade war," said President Jokowi.

Therefore, President Jokowi invites the founding member of ASEAN to make IMT-GT cooperation as building block that gives real contribution to the strengthening of ASEAN.