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Trade and travel top Indonesia’s priorities
10-Aug-2006
A free trade agreement between Australia and Indonesia is back on the table, after business leaders from both countries lobbied for an initiative to stimulate trade and investment between them.
Indonesia deal study likely
10-Aug-2006
Australia and Indonesia are thinking about studying a free-trade deal between the two nations.
RI-Japan trade deal waiting on new law
28-Jul-2006
Trade Minister Mari Elka Pengestu says the government cannot sign a much-awaited Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Japan by the year’s end unless the House of Representatives speeds up the passage of the new investment bill.
Indonesia speeds up partnership with Japan
6-Jul-2006
Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called for the speeding up of ongoing negotiations on the proposed Indonesia-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) so that it can be signed this year, a spokesman said.
NGOs take aim at free-trade accords
11-Jun-2006 swissinfo
Developing countries risk losing out under agreements struck with Switzerland and its European Free Trade Association (Efta) partners, say campaigners.
Fiji seeks bilateral deals with Asian countries
29-May-2006 Radio New Zealand
Fiji is set to negotiate new bilateral economic partnership agreements with India, Malaysia and Indonesia.
RI envisions free trade among D-8 member countries
12-May-2006 Jakarta Post
After breaking the ice by launching the preferential trade agreement among Developing Eight (D-8) countries, Indonesian Trade Minister Mari E. Pangestu envisions that the agreement would lead to a free trade arrangement for member countries in less than 15 years.
Energy concerns fueling Japan’s drive to pursue free trade pact
8-May-2006 Jakarta Post
Energy resource-poor Japan is turning to a free-trade agreement, or FTA, with oil and gas-rich trading partners to secure stable supplies to fuel the world’s second largest economy.
Japan proposes text on resources cooperation with Indonesia for FTA
24-Apr-2006 Kyodo
Japan and Indonesia wrapped up their fourth round of negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement in Tokyo on Friday, with Japan proposing for the first time a draft clause in the FTA which calls for bilateral cooperation on mineral resources.
Indonesia, Japan resume free trade negotiations
18-Apr-2006 Jakarta Post
Indonesia and Japan began their fourth round of official negotiations for a bilateral trade and economic cooperation agreement Monday, and hope to reach a basic accord by the end of the year at the latest.
US, Indonesia eye future free trade agreement
5-Apr-2006 Reuters
The United States and Indonesia launched talks on Tuesday to curb illegal logging that threatens the Southeast Asian country’s rain forests and advanced other initiatives that could lead to a free trade pact, top trade officials from both countries said.
RI seeks closer trade ties with US
25-Mar-2006 Jakarta Post
After four years of stagnant trade relations, the government plans to start intensifying talks with the United States and support a joint-study group on a possible free trade agreement (FTA) with the country, a minister says.
How to beat US trade barriers
22-Mar-2006 Asia Times
The transshipment issue — the illicit movement of shoes, shrimp and garments that have been repackaged, re-labeled and re-exported after being shipped to Indonesia — has cast a shadow over recently warmed US-Indonesian bilateral relations and threaten to damage the Southeast Asian country’s chances of a full free-trade agreement (FTA) with the US.
RI to open labor market for Japan
11-Mar-2006 Jakarta Post
The Indonesian government will open up the domestic labor market in certain sectors to Japanese workers as part of the liberalization of the service sector envisaged under a planned bilateral economic partnership agreement (EPA)
Govt urged to speed up EPA with Japan
7-Mar-2006
With other Southeast Asian countries already finalizing free trade agreements with Japan, the Indonesian government now needed to accelerate the wrapping up of its planned economic partnership agreement with that country, a business forum has urged.
Cabinet may approve new trade accord with Indonesia today
2-Mar-2006 Daily Times
The federal cabinet is expected to accord ex-post fecto approval to the signing of Framework Agreement between Pakistan and Indonesia on Comprehensive Economic Partnership (CEP) and its ratification on Thursday.
RI seeks wider access to Japan labor market
17-Feb-2006 Jakarta Post
Indonesian trade negotiators are pushing their Japanese counterparts to allow the country’s workers more access to Japan’s labor market.
Japan-Indonesia relations: New opportunities, new tensions
1-Feb-2006 ZNet
The late January visit to Tokyo by Indonesian Vice President Muhammad Jusuf Kalla was full of surprises, just as the two nations announced their expectations that a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would be signed before the end of 2006.
Japan, Indonesia agree to accelerate FTA negotiations
25-Jan-2006 Kyodo
Japan and Indonesia agreed Wednesday to accelerate ongoing bilateral talks aimed at sealing a free trade accord, with the goal of striking a basic accord by mid-2006 at earliest, a Japanese official said.
Indonesia should set up FTA with Japan ’soon’
23-Dec-2005 Jakarta Post
Indonesia could lose US$400 million in potential export revenues per year if it does not establish a free trade agreement (FTA) with Japan, while most other ASEAN members have done so to complement the region’s own free market in 2010, a study shows.