REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Indonesian minister of transportation, EE Mangindaan held a meeting with Austrian minister of transportation, innovation and technology, Doris Bures in Jakarta on Monday. Both ministers agreed to develop mass transportation cooperation in Indonesia.

"This cooperation is part of government's efforts in developing a mass transit system. We continue to develop double track railway system, including in Sumatra and Kalimantan," Mangindaan said in Jakarta as reported by Aldian Wahyu Ramadhan.

Indonesia will learn from Austrian experiences in developing transportation system in Europe started from railway, land and sea transportation that can be inter-connected each other. Mangindaan could not disclose the investment value, but both parties had formed a joint working group to implement these projects.

Bures was accompanied by more than 30 business delegations who were members of Austrian Chamber of Commerce. Austrian companies are ready to allocate investment to develop infrastructure in Indonesia and increase other partnership.

Austria, with its well developed market economy and high standard of living recorded 33,656 euros of gross domestic product (GDP). The export value has reached 267.2 million euros to Indonesia and Indonesia experienced a deficit of 65.8 million euros per year.

Austria's main trading partners are Germany (37.6 percent), Italy (6.2 percent), Switzerland (5.2 percent), China (5.1 percent) and Czech Republic (3.7 percent). Next, United States (3.1 percent) and France (2.8 percent).

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