Jakarta: The Indonesia-Italy Business Forum (IIBF) has been held in Milan, Italy to strengthen bilateral cooperation in trade and investment between both nations.
Attended by 100 businesspersons from the two countries, the forum managed to attract 47 Italian businessmen to establish business and investment cooperation.
"Indonesia and Italy have forged cooperation in various sectors. The cooperation has potential to be further enhanced, particularly in the economic sector," Indonesian Ambassador to Italy Esti Andayani remarked in a statement here on Wednesday, October 9, 2019.
The forum was organized as part of a series of activities held to celebrate the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Indonesia and Italy.
The event was co-organized by the Indonesian Embassy in Rome, Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry, Italian Trade Agency (ITA-ICE), the Confindstria, and Italian Chamber of Commerce for Southeast Asia.
On the same day, Ambassador Esti, in the company of the Indonesian Embassy's Trade Attaché Silvi Charlote and Head of the Indonesian Trade Promotion Center (ITPC) in Milan Narita Nurindah, paid a visit to Fresh Tropial Srl company in Milan.
The company is an importer of Indonesian products, particularly instant noodles, and a distributor of Indofood products since 2017.
"We are optimistic that Fresh Tropical Srl would import more Indonesian products, such as fresh fruits as well as fishery and halal products," Charlote noted. (Antara)
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