Indonesia was elected as a member of the Governing Board in two subsidiary bodies of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), namely the Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Center for Islamic Countries (SESRIC) and the Islamic Center for the Development of Trade (ICDT). The election was held at the 44th Session of the Islamic Commission for Economic, Cultural and Social Affairs (ICECS) at the OIC Headquarters in Jeddah from 11 to 13 January 2022.
SESRIC is a subsidiary body of the OIC based in Ankara, Turkey, which aims to promote cooperation among OIC member countries in the fields of statistics, research, training, and technical cooperation. While ICDT is an OIC subsidiary body based in Casablanca, Morocco, whose function is to promote and increase trade among OIC member countries.
As reported by the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jakarta on Tuesday (18/1), the Indonesian delegation also submitted inputs regarding the amendment of the resolution and the draft of a new resolution on moderate Islam. These inputs were welcomed by the session participants.
The Islamic Commission for Economic, Cultural and Social Affairs (ICECS) meeting is one of three series of regular annual Foreign Ministerial Conference (KTM) preparation sessions consisting of ICECS, Permanent Financial Committee (PFC) meetings, and Senior Officials Meetings (SOM). The results of the discussion of this series of sessions are in the form of recommendations which will later be adopted at the 48th OIC KTM, which will take place in Islamabad, Pakistan from 22 to 23 March 2022.