US President Joe Biden will host Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) for a gathering on the White House on November 13.
During the meeting, the 2 leaders will discuss a spread of issues, including continuing the transition to wash energy, efforts to spur economic growth and efforts to advertise peace and stability within the region, the White House said Tuesday.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stressed that in the course of the meeting, Biden would reaffirm the United States’ commitment to strengthening the nearly 75-year-old relationship between the 2 countries, that are currently two of the world’s three largest democracies.
Jean-Pierre also revealed that the meeting will discuss cooperation to strengthen ASEAN centrality and ensure international rule of law.
Jokowi’s visit to the White House precedes Joe Biden’s weekend trip to San Francisco for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Biden and Jokowi also met in September on the Group of 20 summit in New Delhi. Meanwhile, Biden also visited Indonesia in November when Indonesia hosted the G-20 summit.
Jokowi, nonetheless, revealed that his visit to the White House was sent by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to convey the outcomes of the OIC summit in Saudi Arabia, including: Gauze. This was revealed to Jokowi after visiting certainly one of the vocational high schools in Purwakarta, West Java, Indonesia (November 9).
For more information, Jokowi will attend the OIC summit in Saudi Arabia tomorrow evening. After the meeting, Jokowi will immediately fly to the United States. However, Jokowi has up to now not provided any details on the agenda of the upcoming OIC summit, only mentioning that this OIC meeting is solely geared toward discussing the conflict in Gaza. Nevertheless, in his opinion, certainly one of the points that can be conveyed to Biden can be a request to finish the conflict in Gaza.
