South Korean President Moon Jae-in hopes that the friendship and cooperation between his country and Indonesia will be stronger and stronger in 2019 and in the years to come.

That statement was conveyed by Moon in Indonesian as a greeting to welcome the New Year 2019.

The statement was posted on the official Twitter account of the South Korean presidential office @TheBlueHouseEng which was inserted in Moon`s personal account @moonriver365, marking that the words were made by the South Korean President.

According to South Korea`s Ambassador to Indonesia Kim Chang-beom, the statement was a sign of the closeness of the relations between Indonesian and South Korean leaders.

"It shows the closeness of friendship and partnership between them," Ambassador Kim Chang-beom said via a short message received by Antara here Sunday.

In the remarks linked to the official account of President Joko Widodo @jokowi, @Kemlu_RI (the official account of the Indonesian Foreign Ministry) and the Indonesian people, Moon expressed his appreciation for Indonesia`s support for South Korea which has been fighting for peace for the past year.

"We are able to show great strength because you are always with us," President Moon said as quoted from his post on December 27, 2018.

In the last link, Moon hopes that President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and the Indonesian people will always be healthy and happy.

Earlier, on December 24, 2018, President Moon sent a letter to President Jokowi to express his condolences over the tsunami that hit the coasts of the Sunda Strait on December 22, 2018. (ANTARA)