The Indonesian government provided a grant of 1.5 million Pentavalent Vaccines to Nigeria worth Rp30.3 billion on Sunday (May 28, 2023) (Doc. of Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
The Agricultural Rural Farmers’ Training Center (ARFTC) in Gambia was built by the Indonesian Government in 1996. It requires further reconstruction. The ARFTC is targeted to become a hub for agricultural training in the African region. (Doc. of Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Jakarta,
August 25, 2024 – Indonesia has long played an active role in
international development cooperation among developing countries, including
African countries.
In the past decade, Indonesia has implemented around
60 South-South Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) programs involving around 500
participants from the African region.
This cooperation covers various leading sectors,
including agriculture; fisheries and maritime affairs; health; energy; good
governance; micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs); infrastructure
development; disaster risk management; women's empowerment; and trade and
investment.
This initiative further strengthens Indonesia's
position in the international arena as a recognized new donor country. "I’d
like to emphasize that Indonesia is increasingly recognized internationally as
a reliable development partner for developing countries, a reliable southern
provider," said the Director General for Information and Public Diplomacy
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Siti Nugraha Mauludiah, on Sunday (Aug. 25)
in Jakarta.
Indonesia's commitment is increasingly evident with
the establishment of the International Development Cooperation Fund (LDKPI) or
Indonesia AID in 2019, as a one-stop institution for distributing development
assistance to partner countries. Since the establishment of this institution,
Indonesia's development cooperation has reached 23 of the 54 countries in
Africa, or around 42 percent of the total countries in the region. The
cooperation sectors implemented include food security, health, and energy.
In the food security sector, Indonesia has provided
support for procuring food supplies to overcome the impact of drought in Kenya,
Ethiopia, and Madagascar, as well as a revitalization program for several
Agricultural Training Centers in Gambia and Tanzania.
In the health sector, Indonesia has also donated
medicines and medical devices produced by PT Kimia Farma to Mozambique and
Zimbabwe. In 2023, Indonesia also distributed the Pentavalent Vaccine produced
by PT Bio Farma to Nigeria. The distribution was made in two stages for a total
of 1,580,000 doses. Finally, in the energy sector, Indonesia provides training
on Solar Energy capacity building for Namibia, Mozambique, Sudan, Senegal, and
Tanzania.
Indonesia remains committed to enhancing development
cooperation with African countries as an equal and reliable alternative
partner.
The 2nd Indonesia-Africa Forum (IAF) will
be held on September 1-3, 2024 with the theme "Bandung Spirit for Africa's
Agenda 2063" is a momentum to strengthen concrete relations between
Indonesia and Africa, which is expected to bring shared prosperity.
This is in line
with the statement of Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo during his visit to
Tanzania in 2023, which mentioned that Indonesia is completing the grand design
for the next five years of development for Africa and is trying to realize
concrete collaboration with the region. (Infomed Kemlu/TR/Elvira Inda Sari/EL/PR/FI).
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