Saudi Gazette report
JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia and Indonesia voiced their deep concern over the humanitarian disaster within the Gaza Strip and referred to as on the worldwide group to take quick sensible steps to cease it.
In a joint assertion issued on the finish of the go to of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, the 2 international locations reiterated their dedication to persevering with to supply pressing humanitarian and reduction help and help to handle the repercussions of the Israeli aggression in Gaza.
Saudi Arabia and Indonesia condemned the usage of blockade and hunger by Israel as a weapon in opposition to civilians within the Gaza Strip. They expressed their full rejection of the displacement of Palestinian residents inside or outdoors their land, contemplating this as a blatant violation of worldwide legislation. “The worldwide group should play in pressuring the Israeli facet to compel it to adjust to worldwide legislation and worldwide legitimacy resolutions,” they stated whereas urging the worldwide group to carry Israel accountable for the crimes being perpetrated in opposition to the unarmed Palestinian civilians.
The assertion highlighted the official talks between Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman and President Subianto and their co-chairing of the primary assembly of the Saudi-Indonesian Supreme Coordination Council. Throughout the assembly, the Council’s governance was authorised, together with quite a lot of suggestions aimed toward enhancing cooperation between the 2 international locations.
Addressing the council session, the Crown Prince and President Subianto emphasised the significance of continuous to help and develop the work of the council and its sub-committees, and the continued coordination between the 2 sides, which contributes to enhancing its effectiveness as an institutional software that frames bilateral cooperation. It was determined to carry the second assembly of the council in Indonesia.
The 2 sides welcomed the signing of quite a lot of agreements and memoranda of understanding between personal sector companies within the two international locations throughout Subianto’s go to. These offers amounted to roughly $27 billion in quite a lot of fields, together with clear vitality, petrochemical industries, and aviation gas companies, embodying the 2 sides’ aspirations for a sophisticated financial partnership.
Within the financial, commerce and funding fields, the 2 international locations praised the power of their financial ties and agreed on the significance of enhancing their cooperation, particularly in joint precedence sectors, supporting the constructing of partnerships between the personal sectors of the 2 international locations, and investing within the alternatives supplied by Saudi Imaginative and prescient 2030 and Indonesia Golden Imaginative and prescient 2045 to boost cooperation in varied fields.
Within the joint assertion, the 2 international locations praised the extent of bilateral commerce, which amounted to roughly $31.5 billion over the previous 5 years, making the Kingdom the primary buying and selling associate of Indonesia within the area. They welcomed the constructive outcomes of the negotiations on the Free Commerce Settlement between the Gulf Cooperation Council international locations and Indonesia, which had been held between the 2 sides throughout September 2024 and February 2025, and expressed their aspiration to conclude the settlement within the close to future.
The 2 sides emphasised the significance of enhancing funding cooperation and intensifying efforts to allow strategic partnerships in precedence sectors, most notably vitality, monetary companies, mining, manufacturing, logistics, tourism, manufacturing, agriculture, and inexperienced applied sciences, in keeping with the Kingdom’s Imaginative and prescient 2030, Indonesia’s Golden Imaginative and prescient 2045, and Indonesia’s Nationwide Improvement Priorities.
The 2 international locations counseled the important position performed by joint investments in supporting financial integration and creating qualitative alternatives for the personal sector in each international locations. On this regard, the 2 sides expressed their aspiration to develop an investment-friendly atmosphere and undertake efficient mechanisms that improve the alignment of growth and funding insurance policies and contribute to attaining growth objectives.
Within the vitality sector, the Indonesian facet counseled the Kingdom’s pioneering position and efforts in enhancing the reliability and stability of worldwide oil markets, and its constructive position in balancing international vitality markets. The Indonesian facet emphasised the significance of making certain the safety of provides for all vitality sources in international markets.
On this regard, the 2 sides agreed on the significance of enhancing cooperation within the provide of crude oil and its derivatives, petrochemicals, and joint efforts to take advantage of funding alternatives within the refining and petrochemical sectors. They may also strengthen cooperation in growing and sustaining provide chains within the vitality sectors, facilitating cooperation between firms to maximise the usage of native assets in each international locations, contributing to the pliability and effectivity of vitality provides, enhancing native content material, empowering native industries, and constructing extra resilient and inclusive provide chains.
The 2 sides additionally agreed to cooperate in implementing electrical energy, renewable vitality, and vitality storage tasks, in addition to growing them, enhancing the participation of firms from each side of their implementation, and inspiring know-how switch, capability constructing, and collaborative analysis to help nationwide vitality transformations and renewable vitality growth objectives.
Saudi Arabia and Indonesia emphasised the significance of enhancing cooperation and partnership within the following areas: digital economic system and innovation, judiciary and justice, labor and human assets, tradition, tourism, sports activities and youth, training and scientific analysis, trade and mining, agriculture, fisheries, and meals safety and enhancing air connectivity between the 2 international locations and offering the required amenities and exemptions for the 2 international locations’ carriers.
On the protection and safety entrance, the 2 sides agreed on the significance of strengthening and growing protection cooperation between the 2 international locations, in a approach that serves widespread pursuits and contributes to attaining regional and international safety and stability. They affirmed their dedication to enhancing their safety cooperation and coordination on problems with widespread curiosity, together with combating all types of crime, combating terrorism and extremism and their financing, enhancing cooperation within the discipline of cybersecurity, and exchanging info, experience, and coaching, thus contributing to attaining safety and stability within the two international locations.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto arrived in Saudi Arabia in response to an invite from Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman.