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President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) met with Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain at the Aiwan-e-Sadr Presidential Palace, Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday night January 26, 2018. In his meeting with President Mamnoon, President Joko Widodo said that since the implementation of Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA ) in 2013, the value of Indonesia and Pakistan trade has increased significantly from US $ 1.6 billion in 2013 to 2.1 billion US Dollars in 2016. At the beginning of the meeting, President Jokowi said that Indonesia and Pakistan are old friends who had existed decades ago. Since the independence of Indonesia and also since the initiation of the Asian-African Conference. President Joko Widodo expects that the historical closeness of these two countries can be developed into a real cooperation for the welfare and prosperity of the people in both countries. In addition, Indonesia and Pakistan also share many similarities as two large Muslim states and democratic countries. // (Release of Protocol, Press and Media of the Presidential Secretariat)