INDONESIA – FINLAND DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS

60YEARS of

BILATERAL RELATIONS

POLITICS

• Indonesia and Finland mutually

recognize their respective sovereignty • Exchange of Visits : Government

Officials, and Parliament Members. • Mutual supports in International Fora • MoU on Aceh Peace Agreement;

facilitated by CMI 2005

DEFENSE COOPERATION

• Foreign Affairs Committee of Finnish Parliament visited Indonesia in 2013 to seek the possibility of promoting defense cooperation.

• Finland participated in Jakarta International Defense Dialogue (JIDD) in 2014

• Visit of Indonesian Minister of Defense to Finland in 2014

• Possible cooperation in the field of cyber defense, maritime security and surveillance, and defense industry.

TRADE

RELATIONS

Balance Trade Between Indonesia and Finland

Year Import from Finland Export to Finland

2010 US$ 358.727,00 US$ 122.742,40

2011 US$ 500.096,40 US$ 218.989,10

2012 US$ 448.813,40 US$ 197.760,20

2013 US$ 442.542,50 US$ 149.112,30

Source : Indonesian Trade Ministry In US$ 1000

• Finnish Promotion (Finpro) has opened its representative office

in Indonesia in June 2012. • Finnish Minister of European Affairs and Foreign Trade,

Alexander Stubb visited Indonesia in 2012. • Indonesian Chamber of Commerce visited Finland in 8-9 Oct

2012 • Finnish Economic Affairs Minister Jan Vapaavuori brought some

of Finland’s leading business and industrial leaders to Indonesia, in 2013.

• Tampere Chamber of Commerce with 7 big companies visited Indonesia in 2014.

• Indonesian Embassy in Helsinki brings some companies from Finland and Estonia to attend Trade Expo Indonesia in Jakarta, 8-12 October 2014.

INVESTMENT

Year Number of Investment

Value of Investment

2010 3 Projects US$ 0,3 Million

2011 3 Projects US$ 0,4 Million

2012 1 Projects US$ 0,1 Million

2013 2 Projects US$ 0,8 Million

2014 3 Projects US$ 3,6 Million

Total 12 Projects US$ 5,2 Million

1st quarter

Source : Indonesian Investment Coordinating Board

ECONOMIC

COOPERATION

List of Active Finnish Company in Indonesia : 1. Konecranes 2. Cargotec 3. Wärtsilä 4. UPM - The Biofore Company 5. Metso 6. Stora Enso 7. Valmet 8. Kemira

TOURISM

According to data from Statistics Finland, in first quarter of 2014 number of Finnish visitor to Thailand are 97.000 visitors. (2012 : 146.000 and 2013 : 130.000)

Compare to Thailand :

Year Number of Finnish tourist come to Indonesia

2005 7.377

2006 8.623

2007 9.937

2008 10.535

2009 18.688

2010 13.740

2011 14.117

2012 14.828

EDUCATION

The result of the visit by the Minister of Education and Science

of Finland, Ms. Krista Kiuru on 20-21 August 2013 and the bilateral meeting with the Indonesian

Minister of Education and Culture on 21 August 2013 which they agreed to formalize bilateral

cooperation in the field of education in the form of an MoU and held a regular consultation in the form of Joint Working Group.

Existing cooperation between universities in both countries,

such as :

Aalto University with ITB in Master of Business Management.

Technology University Tampere with Bakrie University concentration in research, business, engineering and forestry

Finnish Indonesia Research Network (FIRN) in University of Helsinki

UPI Bandung with UTA

EDUCATION

Social Culture

Promoting Indonesian Culture and People to People Contact in Finland

• Pleased to note the existing bilateral relations • Economy :

There are still plenty of rooms for two countries to expand bilateral economic cooperation

The fast growing middle class in Indonesia with high purchasing capacity

5.9 percent of Indonesia’s average economic growth in 2009-2013.

Indonesia is a member of G20 Indonesia is a Democratic Country

• There are still some potential areas of cooperation:

a. Environment b. Forestry c. Clean Tech d. Creative Economy e. Information Technology

The newly President-Elect, Joko Widodo, pays high attention on economy-business (he was the

former businessman)