Jakarta (ANTARA) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) met with Vietnamese Prime Minister (PM) Pham Minh Chinh at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, September 4, to discuss potential cooperation in developing the electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem by private actors.ccording to the Presidential Secretariat’s Press, Media, and Information Bureau on Monday evening in Jakarta, Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi accompanied the head of state during the discussion. “Both leaders favored the development of the electric vehicle ecosystem by the private sector and promoted the establishment of cooperation between SOEs (state-owned enterprises) of the two countries,” Marsudi noted, as cited from the bureau’s statement. Jokowi and Pham held the meeting a day prior to the holding of the 43rd Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that will take place in Jakarta on September 5-7 under Indonesia’s chairmanship in the bloc. total of 19 state leaders will attend the summit that constitutes the second summit to be hosted by Indonesia this year, following the 42nd ASEAN Summit in Labuan Bajo, East Nusa Tenggara, in May, where the bloc’s leaders issued the ASEAN Leaders’ Declaration on Developing the Regional Electric Vehicle Ecosystem.

Source: Antara News Agency