Indonesia Becomes Reliable Development Partner for Africa, Supports Health and Energy Sectors

Aug 25, 2024

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Press Release of the Indonesia-Africa Forum II

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Jakarta, August 25, 2024 – Indonesia has long played an active role in international development cooperation among developing countries, including African countries.

In the past decade, Indonesia has implemented around 60 South-South Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) programs involving around 500 participants from the African region.

This cooperation covers various leading sectors, including agriculture; fisheries and maritime affairs; health; energy; good governance; micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs); infrastructure development; disaster risk management; women's empowerment; and trade and investment.

This initiative further strengthens Indonesia's position in the international arena as a recognized new donor country. "I’d like to emphasize that Indonesia is increasingly recognized internationally as a reliable development partner for developing countries, a reliable southern provider," said the Director General for Information and Public Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Siti Nugraha Mauludiah, on Sunday (Aug. 25) in Jakarta.

Indonesia's commitment is increasingly evident with the establishment of the International Development Cooperation Fund (LDKPI) or Indonesia AID in 2019, as a one-stop institution for distributing development assistance to partner countries. Since the establishment of this institution, Indonesia's development cooperation has reached 23 of the 54 countries in Africa, or around 42 percent of the total countries in the region. The cooperation sectors implemented include food security, health, and energy.

In the food security sector, Indonesia has provided support for procuring food supplies to overcome the impact of drought in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Madagascar, as well as a revitalization program for several Agricultural Training Centers in Gambia and Tanzania.

In the health sector, Indonesia has also donated medicines and medical devices produced by PT Kimia Farma to Mozambique and Zimbabwe. In 2023, Indonesia also distributed the Pentavalent Vaccine produced by PT Bio Farma to Nigeria. The distribution was made in two stages for a total of 1,580,000 doses. Finally, in the energy sector, Indonesia provides training on Solar Energy capacity building for Namibia, Mozambique, Sudan, Senegal, and Tanzania.

Indonesia remains committed to enhancing development cooperation with African countries as an equal and reliable alternative partner.

The 2nd Indonesia-Africa Forum (IAF) will be held on September 1-3, 2024 with the theme "Bandung Spirit for Africa's Agenda 2063" is a momentum to strengthen concrete relations between Indonesia and Africa, which is expected to bring shared prosperity.

This is in line with the statement of Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo during his visit to Tanzania in 2023, which mentioned that Indonesia is completing the grand design for the next five years of development for Africa and is trying to realize concrete collaboration with the region. (Infomed Kemlu/TR/Elvira Inda Sari/EL/PR/FI).


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