Good evening.Welcome to the 43rd ASEAN Summit Gala dinner. I know it’s been a long day. We had six summit meetings today. But now, let us enjoy this evening and celebrate our togetherness. This evening, Indonesia will present the best work of Indonesian youth. So, please sit back, relax and enjoy. Thank you.  

Bangladesh is a friend of Indonesia whereby this friendship must be strengthened with concrete cooperation which benefits our people. On this occasion, I would like to press three issues. The first is on trade. Our trade grows significantly, growing by 19.9 percent in the last five years, this still could be continually optimized by upcoming trade […]

Your Excellency Prime Minister Kishida, Your Majesty, Your Excellencies ASEAN Leaders, ASEAN and Japan have agreed to build strategic comprehensive partnership which is not only ceremonial and lip service, but it is in the form of concrete cooperation that gives mutual benefits. Japan as one of the most active partners of ASEAN and major supporter […]

Your Excellency President Yoon Suk Yeol Your Majesty, Excellencies ASEAN Leaders, Welcome to Jakarta, President Yoon. For Indonesia, ASEAN-Korea partnership is the partnership of the future, with the main pillars of energy transition and digital transformation. ASEAN’s dependency on 78% fossil fuel must be reduced. In the meantime, in the next decade the digital economy […]

Your Majesty, Excellencies Leaders of ASEAN, Her Excellency Vice President Kamala Harris. Southeast Asia is a very promising region with forecasts indicating that by 2045, it is projected to become the epicentrum of global trade and contribute 5.4 percent to the world’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Therefore, a strong and sustainable partnership between ASEAN and […]

Good morning, Your Excellency Premier Li Keqiang; Your Majesty, Distinguished ASEAN Leaders, Welcome to Jakarta Premier Li. The PRC (People’s Republic of China) is one of the four ASEAN dialogue partners with comprehensive strategic partner status. And, this year marks 20 years of PRC accession to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation. We need to […]

Your Majesty, Your Excellencies ASEAN Leaders, Ladies and Gentlemen, We should be grateful that in the midst of a weakening world economy, the ASEAN economy has proven to be resilient and continues to grow beyond the growth of the global economy and beyond the growth in other regions. With a population of 680 million people, […]

Your Majesty, Your Excellencies ASEAN Leaders, I declare the retreat session open. There are two issues that will be our concern on this occasion, namely the implementation of Five-Point Consensus and ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific. Related to the implementation of Five-Point Consensus, I would like you to bear in mind that the Five-Point Consensus […]

Your Majesty, Your Excellencies ASEAN Leaders, Welcome to the 43rd ASEAN Summit in Jakarta. I would like to welcome His Excellency Hun Manet, the Prime Minister of Cambodia, and His Excellency Xanana Gusmao, the Prime Minister of Timor Leste, welcome Your Excellency, to join in the big ASEAN family, Distinguished ASEAN Leaders, We are all […]

Your Majesty, Your Excellencies ASEAN leaders, leaders of partner countries; Honorable Chairpersons and Heads of High State Institutions; Ladies and gentlemen, Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Good morning. Welcome to Jakarta for the 43rd ASEAN Summit. All the people of Indonesia and I are delighted to welcome the big ASEAN family. I am sure that not only […]