The South China Sea has the Potential of War, Prabowo and Retno Marsudi affirm that Indonesia is not involved in fighting! – All Pages

Sosok.ID – Arrogance China at sea China The South raises the assumption that the region will be in war.

The US interferes in support of ASEAN countries and countries whose territories are claimed China make the tension rise.

Nevertheless, Indonesia has repeatedly emphasized that it will maintain peace and is reluctant to get involved in conflicts.

Indonesian leaders and China, agreed to solve the problem at Sea China South through dialogue.

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A senior Indonesian government official on Wednesday (9/9/2020) said Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto and his Chinese counterpart, Wei Fenghe, had agreed to resolve problems arising in the South China Sea.

The two ministers in a meeting in Jakarta on Tuesday (8/9) also discussed the possibility of holding joint military exercises.

Prabowo and Wei also discussed the discourse of personnel training and investment in Indonesian food estate projects, an official told The Straits Times on condition of anonymity. Sosok.ID, Sunday (13/9).

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Prabowo and visiting Chinese State Advisor and Defense Minister Wei discussed bilateral issues, including joint efforts to fight the coronavirus and cooperation in the defense industry, said a press statement issued by Prabowo’s office on Tuesday evening.

Wei said during the meeting that China was willing to strengthen dialogue and consultations with Indonesia to jointly maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea, Xinhua news agency reported.

Wei is known to have visited Indonesia after landing in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, where he held separate meetings with Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and Defense Minister Ismail Sabri Yaacob.

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The visit comes as foreign ministers from the 10-member ASEAN bloc that includes Indonesia and Malaysia kick off annual regional consultations on Wednesday, with US-China friction, including in the South China Sea, expected to be on the agenda.

The ASEAN summit was held virtually due to the covid-19 pandemic, with Vietnam as its leader.

Meanwhile, China’s senior diplomat, State Counselor Wang Yi, said on Wednesday that the United States is directly intervening in territorial and maritime disputes in the South China Sea out of its own political needs, Reuters reported.

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The US is the biggest driver of militarization in the region, Wang said in a video conference with foreign ministers at the ASEAN summit.

“Peace and stability are China’s greatest strategic interests in the South China Sea. It is also the shared strategic aspiration of China and Asean countries, ” he said in a statement posted on the foreign ministry’s website, as quoted by Reuters.

Regarding the Indonesia-China relationship, the Jakarta official said that the bilateral relationship has been marked by mutually beneficial projects, such as the joint-venture nickel industry project in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province.

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But there have also been several tense maritime border incidents between the two countries, which have been managed by Jakarta and Beijing.

Indonesia has repeatedly stressed its sovereignty over territory north of the Natuna Islands, where it is said there has been encroachment by Chinese and Vietnamese ships for years.

In fact, Chinese ships were again detected in Natuna recently this September.

Three years ago, a senior Indonesian government official launched a map identifying part of the South China Sea north of the Natuna Islands as the North Natuna Sea.

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Although the area is included in Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone, it was previously unnamed and made part of the South China Sea.

China claims most of the South China Sea as its sovereign territory, but Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam also claim portions of the territory through which about US $ 3 trillion (S $ 4.1 trillion) of trade pass annually.

Even so, Indonesia has maintained that it is not a party to the South China Sea dispute, and does not want to get involved in the US-China competition for regional influence.

“ASEAN, Indonesia, want to show all that we are ready to become partners,” Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi told Reuters, Tuesday.

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“We don’t want to be trapped by this competition.”

Indonesia has seen a lot of investment China and business cooperation in the country in recent years, including the state-owned pharmaceutical company Bio Farma which works with the company China Sinovac for the Covid-19 vaccine since April.

The largest economy in Southeast Asia is currently looking for investors to encourage the development of two national food plantations in Central Kalimantan and North Sumatra as part of efforts to prevent the adverse effects of the global food crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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