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Canada has signed a bilateral free trade agreement with Indonesia, which aims to eliminate or reduce tariffs on over 95 percent of Ottawa's exports to its largest market in Southeast Asia. Several experts told AFP the strategic agreement is being made in the context of global economic turmoil, exacerbated by the protectionist policies of the ...
This is Beirut, 16/07 09:17 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States Donald Trump Indonesia Tariffs
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he had struck a trade pact with Indonesia resulting in significant purchase commitments from the Southeast Asian country, following negotiations to avoid steeper tariffs. Indonesian goods entering the United States would face a 19 percent tariff, Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. This ...
This is Beirut, 28/05 10:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron Israel Palestine Indonesia
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Wednesday said he would be willing to establish diplomatic relations with Israel if it recognized a Palestinian state, as he held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in Jakarta. Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, has no formal ties with Israel and has consistently ...
This is Beirut, 08/05 12:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Indonesia Film Animation Jumbo
An Indonesian animated movie is smashing regional box-office records and could be set for wider success as it prepares to open beyond the Southeast Asian archipelago's silver screens. Jumbo - a film based on the adventures of main character Don, a large orphaned Indonesian boy facing bullying at school - last month became the highest-grossing ...
This is Beirut, 17/04 12:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Indonesia Electric Vespas Elders
In Jakarta, a city plagued by air pollution partly caused by exhaust fumes, the shift to electric vehicles is gaining momentum with the rise of electric Vespas.
This is Beirut, 06/01 21:18 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Brazil on Monday announced that Indonesia had become a full member of BRICS, a bloc of developing economies increasingly seen as a counterweight to the West. Brazil's foreign ministry said in a statement that Southeast Asia's most populous country "shares with the other members the will to reform the institutions of global governance and ...