REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Indonesia signed a total of 146 international agreements during 2011, a Foreign Affairs Ministry official said.
"During 2011, Indonesia signed 146 agreements comprised of 131 bilateral, nine ASEAN-related and six multilateral accords," PLE Priatna, the ministry`s director for information and media affairs, said in Jakarta on Wednesday.
Priatna said Indonesia also signed a total of 149 Memorandums of Understandings (MoUs) with other countries, namely 96 in the economic and 53 in the security and legal fields during 2011.
One day before, the Chairman of Commission I Mahfudz Siddiq expressed appreciation for the government`s achievements in the diplomatic sector. The meeting between Minister of Foreign Affairs Marty Natalegawa and members of the House of Representatives from Commission I, also highlighted the need for the government to improve economic diplomacy and coordination with related ministries.
Recently Natalegawa in a new year speech stated that Indonesian representative offices abroad were expected to expand the country`s export market in order to achieve the 2012 export value target of US$ 230 billion. "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also instructed all of Indonesia`s overseas representative offices to actively help attract foreign investments that will benefit the Indonesian economy in accordance with the Master Plan for the Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesia`s Economic Development (MP3EI)," said the minister.
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