Jakarta, October 19- With the purpose of consolidating the economic diplomacy, the III Indonesia-Latin America and Caribbean Business Forum (INA-LAC) 2021 was inaugurated in this capital, aimed to revitalizing economic ties and business collaboration between both regions in a context of the current post-pandemic global dynamics.
Together with the group of Latin American and Caribbean ambassadors, the Head of the Cuban Mission in this country, Tania Velázquez López, attended the event in person, whose official opening was led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia, Mrs. Retno Marsudiy, who considered it positive that his country and the Latin American and Caribbean region evaluate effective measures for the reopening of secure borders, facilitating the establishment of travel and business corridors, under the implementation of strict health protocols.
“In the long term we can expand similar corridors to tourist destinations. To achieve this, it is necessary to explore the mutual recognition of vaccine certificates between Indonesia and Latin American and Caribbean countries, ”said the Indonesian Foreign Minister.
Likewise, the Chancellor announced the launch of the ina-accsess.com digital platform, a space that will provide direct interaction between entrepreneurs from both regions, in which more than 130 investment projects will be offered, both "green projects" and "fields de cacao ", ready for investment and backed by the Ministry of Investments and the Central Bank of Indonesia.
The event was also attended, but in virtual mode, by five hundred representatives of the business sector from Indonesia and Latin America and the Caribbean.
The first edition of the 2019 Forum, in which more than 200 businessmen and government officials participated, committed investments of 5 billion dollars in the mining sector and business agreements for 33 million dollars were finalized.
In last year's edition, despite being virtual, 550 exponents were able to intervene, trade agreements were sealed for more than 71 million dollars and potential agreements for 14 million 360 thousand dollars.
Embassy of Cuba in Indonesia