Jakarta –
President Jokowi’s meeting with Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk has been the talk of the town for the past week. Even Elon Musk will fulfill Jokowi’s invitation to visit Indonesia in November this year.
Director of TBS Energi Utama Pandu Patria Sjahrir while talking to detik.com In the Outspoken program, he said that the meeting between Jokowi and Elon Musk was initiated by the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, who previously met with Elon Musk, Tuesday (26/4/2022).
During the meeting, Luhut informed Elon Musk regarding Jokowi’s agenda, which will be present at the ASEAN and US Summit which will be held in Washington DC, United States on May 11-13, 2022. “This is a US ASEAN Summit, can you meet Jokowi? ” Luhut said to Elon Musk as imitated by Pandu.
Hearing this, Elon welcomed Luhut’s offer. He immediately changed his agenda and took the time to meet with Jokowi on the sidelines of his visit to the US.
Luhut’s nephew also revealed that the meeting between Luhut Elon Musk which ended with Jokowi’s visit to SpaceX headquarters had been in process for 8 months. “The Luhut and Elon Musk meeting has been scheduled since 8 months ago,” explained Pandu.
The discussion regarding the planned meeting between Luhut and Elon Musk, continued Pandu, has intensified since 2 months ago after an agreement was reached between CATL and LG. “Well, from the Tesla side, he was enthusiastic, he asked what he could do,” said Pandu.
Pandu, who was in Luhut’s group when he met Elon Musk, said that the one hour meeting was very full. Elon Musk is very focused even though he looks sleep deprived because on the same day he made an announcement that he would buy Twitter.
“So what’s great about him (Elon Musk), he is very focused. He knows very well about Indonesia, 270 million population, 150 million middle class growing and so on,” said the man born May 17, 1979 in Boston, United States.
From Pandu’s confession, Elon Musk’s figure is very humble, even though there are views from some people who are sarcastic about his clothes, which only wears t-shirts. However, according to Pandu, he had previously been informed that the meeting was relaxed.
“At that time, I wanted to change shirts, but I couldn’t, wong Pak Luhut wears a suit, so we have to wear a suit, even though we are ready to wear a hoodie,” joked Pandu.
Pandu also believes that Elon Musk’s promise to come to Indonesia will come true. Because from several meetings that Elon Musk has held, his attitude is consistent and the presence of Elon Musk will be a good signal for Indonesia’s progress.
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