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| date: '2024-11-12' | ||
| modified_time: 2024-11-12 22:50:07-05:00 | ||
| published_time: 2024-11-12 22:50:06-05:00 | ||
| source_url: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/11/12/fact-sheet-president-joseph-r-biden-and-president-prabowo-subianto-commemorate-75-years-of-diplomatic-relations/ | ||
| tags: statements-releases | ||
| title: "FACT SHEET: President Joseph R. Biden and President Prabowo Subianto Commemorate\ | ||
| \ 75 Years of Diplomatic\_Relations" | ||
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| Today, President Biden welcomed President Prabowo Subianto of Indonesia | ||
| to the White House. The two leaders commemorated 75 years of diplomatic | ||
| relations built on shared values of democracy, pluralism, and a common | ||
| commitment to the rules-based international order. As the world’s | ||
| second- and third-largest democracies, the United States and Indonesia | ||
| share a commitment to addressing evolving challenges and capitalizing on | ||
| emerging opportunities based on mutual benefit and respect for each | ||
| other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Over the last 75 years, | ||
| our countries have continued to deepen our partnership, most recently | ||
| elevating the relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership in | ||
| 2023. | ||
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| Since 2002, the United States has provided over $6.8 billion in | ||
| development, economic, health, and security assistance to support | ||
| Indonesian development efforts, which includes more than $2.2 billion to | ||
| jointly advance education and health outcomes and over $1.4 billion to | ||
| promote economic growth, democratic governance, and human rights, | ||
| including support to civil society. To continue expanding this | ||
| cooperation, President Biden and President Subianto announced new | ||
| initiatives to deliver a better future for our citizens and a free, | ||
| open, prosperous, secure, and resilient Indo-Pacific. | ||
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| **PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE, RESILIENT ECONOMIC GROWTH** | ||
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| The United States and Indonesia have long been partners in advancing | ||
| prosperity for our citizens and those across the Indo-Pacific, including | ||
| through the G20, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the | ||
| Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment, and the | ||
| Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity. The United States will | ||
| continue to partner with Indonesia on activities to promote sustainable | ||
| urban development, including the deployment of innovative smart city | ||
| solutions, quality infrastructure, and international best practices to | ||
| improve the quality of life for city residents in Indonesia. Ongoing | ||
| technical assistance, pilot projects, and training programs supported by | ||
| the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), U.S. Agency for | ||
| International Development (USAID), the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), | ||
| and the U.S. Department of Commerce are designed to mobilize capital, | ||
| deploy innovative and secure technologies, and foster new public-private | ||
| partnerships to advance Indonesia’s sustainable development goals. As | ||
| part of the two leaders’ commitment to implement our Comprehensive | ||
| Strategic Partnership, President Biden has announced the following | ||
| programs to promote sustainable economic prosperity. | ||
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| - Trade and Investment Framework Agreement: The United States and | ||
| Indonesia are committed to future engagement and cooperation on | ||
| trade, including agricultural trade, and will explore holding a | ||
| Trade and Investment Framework Agreement meeting in 2025. The United | ||
| States looks forward to expanding our robust relationship in | ||
| agricultural trade that accounted for $7 billion in two-way annual | ||
| trade in 2023. | ||
| - Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF): The United States, | ||
| Indonesia, and 12 other IPEF partners have broken new ground with | ||
| this framework that will deliver economic benefits and serve as a | ||
| regional platform for long-term economic cooperation. The IPEF | ||
| partners have negotiated three economic cooperation agreements aimed | ||
| at promoting competitive supply chains, accelerating the transition | ||
| to cleaner economies, and creating a more predictable playing field | ||
| for workers and businesses. | ||
| - Millennium Challenge Corp (MCC) Indonesia Infrastructure and Finance | ||
| Compact: The U.S. MCC and the Government of Indonesia launched the | ||
| $649 million [Indonesia Infrastructure and Finance | ||
| Compact](https://www.mcc.gov/where-we-work/program/indonesia-infrastructure-and-finance-compact/)—a | ||
| five-year grant focused on improving the quantity and quality of | ||
| infrastructure investments and increasing access to finance for | ||
| small and medium enterprises, especially those owned by women. | ||
| - Promoting Labor Rights: The U.S. Department of State and DOL have | ||
| provided more than $2 million for programs in Indonesia to foster | ||
| labor rights and workplace democracy, as well as ensuring | ||
| occupational health for workers in high-risk industries. | ||
| - Digital Infrastructure Smart City Pilot Project: USTDA partnered | ||
| with Autodesk, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco, ESRI, Honeywell, | ||
| IBM, and Motorola to launch a $7.6 million project. This project | ||
| will implement innovative smart city technologies to enhance urban | ||
| management, streamline emergency response, and support sustainable | ||
| infrastructure. | ||
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| The Biden-Harris Administration has reiterated its commitment to | ||
| partnering with Indonesia on tackling the climate crisis and ensuring | ||
| the United States and Indonesia are at the forefront of harnessing the | ||
| clean energy transition, as well as reducing deforestation. As co-leads | ||
| with Japan of the International Partners Group (IPG), the United States | ||
| has been working with Indonesia to help implement its goals in the Just | ||
| Energy Transition Partnership (JETP). We are helping to catalyze $21.6 | ||
| billion in public ($11.6 billion) and private ($10 billion) sector | ||
| financing. To date, we have 32 ongoing technical assistance programs | ||
| funded by the countries in the IPG that total $202.7 million with an | ||
| additional $831.42 million approved in seven loan and equity | ||
| investments. | ||
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| - Supporting Clean Energy Transition Planning: The U.S. Department of | ||
| Energy (DOE) is supporting a JETP Captive Coal study for | ||
| site-specific decarbonization of the steel, cement, paper, and | ||
| aluminum industries, which could lead to $2 billion in investment | ||
| for clean energy deployments. Furthermore, USAID has assisted | ||
| Indonesia to accelerate its net zero emission target in the power | ||
| sector and define policy reforms to achieve its JETP goals. | ||
| - Mobilized Finance for Clean Energy: USAID and the U.S. Development | ||
| Finance Corporation assisted one geothermal and two small hydropower | ||
| plants obtain $239.5 million in private investment to support | ||
| Indonesia’s commitment to reach net zero emissions in the energy | ||
| sector by 2060 or earlier. | ||
| - Just Energy Workforce Transition: The United States is partnering | ||
| with Indonesia to develop a jobs data collection methodology to | ||
| address Indonesian workforce clean energy transition. | ||
| - Mobilizing Renewable Energy Mini Grids: USTDA, in a public-private | ||
| partnership with the DOE’s national labs under the Net Zero World | ||
| Initiative, is supporting mobilization of $6 to $10 million at five | ||
| sites and will mobilize up to $2 billion in investments to convert | ||
| 500 MW of diesel to renewable energy hybrid mini grids. | ||
| - Exploring Clean Energy Alternatives for Industrial Growth: The | ||
| United States and Indonesia are partnering on a “Battery2EV” supply | ||
| chain roadmap that identifies clean energy alternatives to captive | ||
| coal-powered industrial growth. | ||
| - Expanding Access to Climate-Resilient Water and Sanitation: USAID is | ||
| expanding Indonesian access to climate-resilient water and | ||
| sanitation in 38 cities and districts. Technical assistance | ||
| integrates upstream water resource management with downstream urban | ||
| service delivery. | ||
| - Signed Marine Conservation Debt-For-Nature Swap Agreement: In 2024, | ||
| Indonesia and the United States signed the largest bilateral | ||
| debt-for-nature swap agreement as part of the Tropical Forest and | ||
| Coral Conservation Act. The roughly $34 million agreement provides | ||
| funding to conserve coral reefs across much of Central and Eastern | ||
| Indonesia. | ||
| - Emergency Management Memorandum of Understanding: The United States | ||
| and Indonesia disaster response agencies signed a five-year | ||
| Memorandum of Understanding that will serve as a framework for | ||
| future cooperation in disaster preparedness. | ||
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| The United States is investing in Indonesia’s healthy workforce. Access | ||
| to quality health services in Indonesia, particularly for the poorest | ||
| and most vulnerable people, remains a challenge. Through USAID, the | ||
| United States has invested more than $1.1 billion to help Indonesia | ||
| strengthen its health systems—including $58.9 million last year. These | ||
| investments include the following: | ||
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| - Bolstering Health Security: The United States supports Indonesia’s | ||
| effort to prevent and respond to infectious and zoonotic disease | ||
| outbreaks. USAID helped expand Indonesia’s early warning alert and | ||
| response system in the animal and human health sectors for emerging | ||
| infectious diseases from two to 38 provinces. | ||
| - Tuberculosis Detection: In over 250 hospitals, USAID-supported | ||
| screening efforts reached more than four million people, resulting | ||
| in the identification and treatment of 40,000 TB patients. | ||
| Additionally, USAID supported the establishment of 12 drug-resistant | ||
| tuberculosis clinics, delivering life-saving treatments to 321 | ||
| patients. | ||
| - Expanding Use of National Electronic Health Platform: USAID helped | ||
| connect more than 23,500 healthcare facilities in 38 provinces to a | ||
| national electronic health information platform, improving data | ||
| access and enhancing health services for patients. | ||
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| **INVESTING IN OUR PEOPLE** | ||
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| President Biden and President Subianto celebrated the health and | ||
| strength of our people-to-people ties. Over the past year, around 100 | ||
| Indonesian leaders have traveled to the United States to participate in | ||
| U.S. Department of State professional exchanges on journalism, economic | ||
| development, financial systems, civil aviation, and cybersecurity, among | ||
| other topics. This year, we celebrated 10 years of academic exchange | ||
| through the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI). In 2024 | ||
| alone the United States hosted 165 young leaders from Indonesia through | ||
| YSEALI and other youth exchange programs. Building on this decades-long | ||
| partnership and recognizing this new era of cooperation under our | ||
| Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, President Biden announced the | ||
| following new programs to further strengthen these ties: | ||
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| - Cultural Heritage Preservation: A $275,000 grant will assist several | ||
| Indonesian museums to develop and digitize a cataloging system | ||
| enhancing their emergency preparedness capacity. Another $299,800 | ||
| grant assists with documenting and preserving Indonesian local | ||
| languages through community engagement and open-source digital | ||
| platforms.** ** | ||
| - Interfaith Dialogue: The United States and Indonesia engaged in | ||
| interfaith dialogues, including the [Cross-Cultural Religious | ||
| Literacy Conference](https://conference.leimena.org/) to strengthen | ||
| tolerance, promote inclusivity, and encourage interfaith | ||
| collaboration. | ||
| - Increased Access to Higher Education: In 2023, USAID trained over | ||
| 700 staff members and over 6,000 students from more than 55 | ||
| Indonesian universities in soft skills development, applied STEM | ||
| learning. USAID improved access for Indonesian students to U.S. | ||
| education through a new Indonesia government-funded scholarship | ||
| program that sent, worth a value of approximately $9.56 million. | ||
| - Educational Exchange: Indonesia and the United States plan to expand | ||
| the Fulbright program to welcome American Fulbright scholars and | ||
| English Teaching Assistants into educational institutions run by the | ||
| Ministry of Religious Affairs. The EducationUSA Fall Fair showcased | ||
| 92 registered U.S. universities and expanded its capacity to provide | ||
| free information about U.S. higher education to Indonesian students | ||
| by 25 percent in 2024 | ||
| - Improving Digital Literacy: USAID’s Saring Daring U-Challenge | ||
| activity, in partnership with Meta and Love Frankie, has improved | ||
| the ability of 288 university students to create and disseminate | ||
| content on digital literacy issues, and increased engagement among | ||
| 120,000 students and enhanced digital literacy awareness among an | ||
| additional 240,000 students. USAID is also partnering with AWS to | ||
| train 50,000 university students in market-driven cloud computing | ||
| skills. | ||
| - Partnering on Resilient Semiconductor: Purdue University has formed | ||
| a strategic partnership with Indonesia’s National Semiconductor | ||
| Ecosystem Development Task Force to enhance Indonesia’s supply chain | ||
| resilience in critical and emerging semiconductor technologies, | ||
| leveraging Purdue University’s expertise as a leading research | ||
| university. | ||
| - Promoting Democratic Governance and Human Rights:** **The | ||
| Biden-Harris Administration has invested over $50 million through | ||
| Department of State and USAID in initiatives that strengthen | ||
| democratic governance, promote respect for fundamental freedoms and | ||
| human rights, and bolster the role of civil society in | ||
| Indonesia. The United States and Indonesia have also reaffirmed | ||
| their steadfast support for the Open Government Partnership as a way | ||
| to enhance transparency, accountability and public participation, | ||
| deliver for the public, and advance anti-corruption priorities. | ||
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| **DEEPENING REGIONAL AND GLOBAL COOPERATION** | ||
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| The United States and Indonesia are united by a shared commitment to | ||
| ASEAN centrality and the common principles articulated in the ASEAN | ||
| Outlook on the Indo Pacific (AOIP) and the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy. | ||
| In 2022, Presidents Biden and Jokowi upgraded ASEAN-U.S. relations to a | ||
| Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in recognition of the breadth and | ||
| depth of U.S. cooperation with ASEAN across a wide range of important | ||
| issues in ASEAN’s political-security, economic, and socio-cultural | ||
| community pillars. In 2023, Indonesia as ASEAN chair spearheaded the | ||
| ASEAN-U.S. Statement on Cooperation on the AOIP to affirm the | ||
| fundamental principles shared between the AOIP and the U.S. Indo-Pacific | ||
| Strategy and enhance ASEAN-U.S. coordinated action across the AOIP’s | ||
| four areas of cooperation. The Biden-Harris Administration advanced our | ||
| collective security through: | ||
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| - Expansion of Super Garuda Shield: Super Garuda Shield has expanded | ||
| from being the cornerstone for the U.S.-Indonesia military | ||
| relationship to include troops from Australia, Canada, France, | ||
| Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, | ||
| and the United Kingdom, and this year included a cyber exercise for | ||
| the first time. It involves more than 4,000 service members from 23 | ||
| nations observing — or training side-by-side — in one of the largest | ||
| multinational exercises in the Indo-Pacific region. | ||
| - Expanding Military-to-Military Relationship: The United States and | ||
| Indonesian militaries conduct over 200 different types of military | ||
| engagement each year. Additionally, the International Military | ||
| Education and Training program with Indonesia represents the largest | ||
| U.S. training education program in the USINDOPACOM area. | ||
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