Joko meets British PM Cameron



JAKARTA: -- Indonesia's President Joko Widodo asked Britain to diversify its businesses in Indonesia and lower import duties for Indonesian products entering the United Kingdom during his bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron in Jakarta on Monday, according to The Jakarta Globe.

Joko told Cameron he wants Britain to diversity its investment in infrastructure development, including for the construction of sea ports, toll roads, railways, power plants and maritime industry.

“I also hope that Britain will impose lower import duties for Indonesian products, such as timber, clothing, coffee and fishery products,” he was quoted as saying.

Joko said Indonesia was committed to continually improving its economic partnership with Britain and expressed his wish that Britain would reciprocate Indonesia’s visa-free policy applicable to British visitors.

Cameron in an e-mail interview with the Jakarta Globe on Sunday said his government would offer £1 billion ($1.55 billion) of credit financing for infrastructure projects in Indonesia.

Moazzam Malik, the British ambassador for Indonesia, Asean and Timor Leste, on Sunday said that Britain was keen to offer Indonesia its vast expertise in a number of areas — specifically in maritime infrastructure development and maritime defense, satellite technology and public-private partnerships to finance infrastructure projects.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/joko-meets-british-pm-cameron


-- Thai PBS 2015-07-28

Dopey Dave Camoron isn't visiting LoS !

I'll bet members can come up with all sorts of speculation as to why.

Dopey Dave Camoron isn't visiting LoS !

I'll bet members can come up with all sorts of speculation as to why.

The Lord Mayor of the City of London was here recently, as was some other UK trade flunkies and delegations.

To be fair, dopey Dave probably doesn't know why. He just follows the script. "If it's Tuesday it must be Indondesia".

When you consider, he was actually better, by a long way, than any of the other muppets that led parties in the last UK election, it shows the state of political leadership in the UK.

Maybe he'll pop across for a private visit to his old Etonian chum here. Must have lots to chat about.

Dopey Dave Camoron isn't visiting LoS !

I'll bet members can come up with all sorts of speculation as to why.

He doesn't want to run the gauntlet of angry Brit expat retirees waving placards protesting about their State pensions being frozen and their entitlement to free NHS care being withdrawn, while still being expected to fork out at least 20% of their gross income to the jolly old taxman at HMRC if proposals to scrap the personal allowance for UK non-residents are revived, as his government threatened to do when booting their 2014 consultation exercise on this matter into the long grass!