China and Indonesia held the Third Meeting of their High-level Dialogue Cooperation Mechanism, with both nations looking to deepen their strategic coordination and promote development and prosperity. China expressed its readiness to work with Indonesia under the Belt and Road Initiative and encouraged cooperation in areas such as development financing, green economy and grain security, maritime cooperation and defense and law enforcement. The two nations also plan to strengthen strategic mutual trust and exchanges in personnel and people-to-people friendship, and to encourage inter-civilization dialogue.

China and Indonesia have co-hosted the third meeting of the China-Indonesia High-level Dialogue Cooperation Mechanism, aimed at strengthening their cooperation to promote the development of both countries and of the region. Representatives from both countries attended the meeting, in which Wang Yi, Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, stated that China is ready to strengthen political, economic, cultural and maritime cooperation. As this year marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative, Wang stated China’s willingness to work with Indonesia to further cooperation under the Initiative in the next stage. Wang specifically suggested cooperation in development financing, green economy and grain security, maritime cooperation, and bilateral economic, trade and investment cooperation. The two countries should also promote strategic mutual trust and Chinese-Indonesian people-to-people friendship, according to Wang. Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Indonesia’s Coordinator for Cooperation with China and Coordinating Minister of Maritime Affairs and Investment, expressed Indonesia’s willingness to build the Belt and Road Initiative with China, as well as exploring the Global Development Initiative with China and increasing their “sense of a community with a shared future”.