MOSCOW, Jan 23 Indonesian Coordinating Investment Minister Luhut Binsar Panjaitan said that the United States should immediately stop interfering with the economic growth of the Asian country.
According to him, a few days earlier at the World Economic Forum in Davos, he met with US climate special envoy John Kerry.
«I want to talk a little about the results of negotiations with a US colleague. There is one thing that our friends from America should immediately pay attention to: stop hindering Indonesia's economic growth,» Panjaitan wrote on his social networks.
According to the minister, now the republic needs to create broad opportunities for the economy, as the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations do.
Last year, Indonesia's exports reached $293 billion, up $61 billion from 2021, Panjaitan concluded. country, including through economic sanctions against Indonesian companies responsible for this problem.
Earlier this month, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said that the European Union's attempts to limit the freedom of action of developing countries over their resources meant that Europe «returned to the slippery practices of the colonial era.»
The politician stressed that it is Europe that is to blame for the fact that the republic cannot immediately modernize its economy and start mass production of electric vehicles, which require nickel to produce batteries.