Your Majesty, Your Excellencies, the leaders of the East Asia Summit, Welcome to the East Asia Summit. This afternoon I would like to highlight just one thing, that all of us sitting in this room have an equal responsibility to create peace, stability, and prosperity in the region. We all have the same responsibility to […]

Your Excellency Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Your Majesty, Your Excellencies Leaders of ASEAN Countries, To ASEAN, Australia is not only a neighboring country, but also a strategic comprehensive partner that also connects the Indo-Pacific region. ASEAN is also an important trade partner for Australia with a higher trade value compared to that with the United […]

Your Excellency Prime Minister Modi, Excellencies, Honorable ASEAN Leaders, I sincerely appreciate PM Modi for attending this event amidst preparation for the upcoming G20 Summit. Once again, thank you PM Modi. Your Excellency, So far, the cooperation between ASEAN and India has been bringing concrete benefits for the people. Nevertheless, we still need to optimize […]

President of the Republic of Indonesia (Joko Widodo) Thank God, the 43rd ASEAN Summit and other Summits have run smoothly. In the midst of challenging situation, Indonesia’s Chairmanship has produced concrete results as part of the measures to maintain peace, stability, and prosperity in the region. In the forum, I did in fact state that […]

Your Majesty, Your Excellencies ASEAN Leaders, Your Excellencies Leaders of the ASEAN Dialogue Partners, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, First of all, allow me to convey my highest appreciation to all Leaders and invitees for attending this closing ceremony. We have conducted 12 meetings during the three-day Summit and produced 90 outcomes documents, as well as […]

His Excellency General Secretary of the United Nations Antonio Guterres, His Majesty, Excellencies ASEAN Leaders, The preamble to the ASEAN and UN charters both start with ‘We, the peoples’, meaning that the people must continue to be our priority. And, in the midst of increasingly complex global challenges, wars and conflicts, food crises, energy crises, […]

Your Excellency Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; Your Majesty, Your Excellencies ASEAN Leaders, The ASEAN and Canada partnership is entering a new phase today, namely as strategic partners. Welcome to the big ASEAN family, Prime Minister Trudeau. Hopefully, such things will provide greater benefits for our people and the region. Canada is ASEAN’s strategic partner in […]

Your Majesty, Your Excellencies Leaders of the ASEAN Plus Three, For more than two decades, ASEAN Plus Three has yielded a lot of results and become the driver of growth in the region. However, we shall never be complacent. We have to open and create new opportunities to cooperate, in which green economic development becomes […]

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 […]