VOINews.id: ASEAN and Japan have agreed on several shared visions and future partnership implementation plans. Indonesian President Joko Widodo said that in a joint statement at a summit commemorating 50 years of ASEAN-Japan friendship and cooperation on Sunday (17/12/2023).
VOINews.id: Indonesian Minister of Transportation, Budi Karya Sumadi is visiting Bali to inspect progress on a plan to build a light rail transit (LRT) project in the province.
VOINews.id: Head of the Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), Dwikorita Karnawati, encourages continuous strengthening of cooperation and collaboration between countries in the Indian Ocean region. This is to prevent and minimize the risks resulting from earthquake and tsunami disasters which could occur at any time. She said this while opening "Webinar of Lessons Learned during Exercise Indian Ocean Wave 2023" organized by the Inter-Governmental Coordination Group for Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWMS), recently.
VOInews.id: President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) on Thursday lauded PT Smelting's move to expand its copper processing and refining factory (smelter) to support the downstream industry in Indonesia. Through the expansion of PT Smelting's factory, which was jointly built by Freeport Indonesia in collaboration with Japan's Mitsubishi, its copper concentrate processing capacity will increase from one million metric tons to 1.3 million metric tons per year.