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Inclusion to be key tenet of Indonesia’s G20 presidency: Retno
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is set to visit Rome next month to attend the G20 Summit and the official handover of the group’s presidency to Indonesia. It will be his first trip abroad in over a year.
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Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi (right) speaks to Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio (left) during a working visit to Rome on June 27. Indonesia is set to take over the Group of 20 (G20) presidency from Italy in December. (Ministry of Foreign Affair/-)
Indonesia is set to host high-level international meetings starting in December as part of its year-long Group of 20 (G20) presidency, as the world enters a crucial stage of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and while inequalities persist and trust wanes among the world’s biggest economies.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is set to visit Rome next month to attend the G20 Summit and the official handover of the group’s presidency from Italy, Coordinating Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto said at a press conference on Tuesday. It will be the President’s first trip abroad in over a year.
It will also be Indonesia’s first time presiding over the G20, making it the sixth Asian country to chair the forum of the world’s biggest economies, after South Korea, China, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
The presidency begins on Dec. 1 and lasts until Nov. 31, 2022.
Airlangga said the position was a “strategic opportunity to determine the direction of the global economic recovery in a post-COVID-19 pandemic world”. He also highlighted the practical benefits of hosting the world’s most influential multilateral economic forum.
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