KTT AS-ASEAN di California Akan Dihadiri Presiden Jokowi
Indonesian President was Scheduled to Attend US-ASEAN Summit in California
Reporter : Rizki Saleh
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Jakarta (B2B) - President Joko Widodo dijadwalkan bertolak ke California, AS untuk menghadiri KTT Amerika Serikat – ASEAN yang akan berlangsung di Rancho Mirage, California pada 15-16 Februari mendatang.
“Insya Allah Presiden Jokowi hadir,” kata Menteri Luar Negeri RI Retno Marsudi kepada pers di Istana Negara, Jakarta pada Senin (1/2).
Dia menambahkan, Presiden Jokowi di California akan bertemu dengan para pejabat tinggi dan pengusaha AS tapi dia tidak menyebutkan siapa pejabat dan pengusaha terkemuka AS yang akan ditemui Jokowi.
“Kita akan konsultasikan dulu dengan Presiden Jokowi namun yang jelas KTT tersebut akan berlangsung di California," kata Retno.
Menurutnya, KTT AS - ASEAN akan memberikan kesempatan bagi para pemimpin berdiskusi secara terbuka dan konstruktif untuk memastikan keamanan regional, termasuk kebebasan navigasi di Laut China Selatan.
Menlu Retno menambahkan Presiden Jokowi tahun lalu berkunjung ke AS dan bertemu dengan Presiden Barack Obama dan menjelaskan tentang rencananya untuk bergabung dengan Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Jakarta (B2B) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo was scheduled will going to California, USA to attend the US-ASEAN Summit in Sunnylands, Rancho Mirage to take place on February, 15, 2016.
"God willing the President Widodo will be attend in US-ASEAN Summit," Indonesian Foreign Minister, Retno Marsudi told the press here on Monday (2/1).
She added, President Widodo in California will meet with US officials and businessmen but she didn't confirm whom the President will meet.
"We are currently discussing the issue. We will announce the detail of the program later," Mrs Marsudi said.
According to her, the US-ASEAN Summit is a new partnership between the US and ASEAN countries. The partnership was designed on November 2015 and includes a strategic partnership plan from 2016 to 2020 and the summit will be the initial implementation of the strategic partnership.
Mrs Marsudi said that President Widodo last year also visited the US to met President Barack Obama and presented his plan for Indonesia to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
